The U.S. Commerce Department promised Friday to take more of a hands-off approach to the Internet as it extended for three years its oversight of a California organization that handles network-address issues.
- By The Associated Press
- October 02, 2006
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers, the latest volley in a high-stakes battle with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- October 02, 2006
Microsoft is shipping Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of its PowerShell 1.0 command line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 28, 2006
The general counsel of Hewlett-Packard Co. announced her resignation Thursday, shortly before the company's former chairwoman told Congress she was never advised that HP's spying probe involved illegal tactics.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
A federal judge dismissed a major portion of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit against archrival Intel Corp., ruling that AMD cannot sue in the U.S. for Intel's alleged monopolistic tactics overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has released the first beta of its Forefront Security package for SharePoint, the company's portal technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 28, 2006
Shares of software maker Red Hat Inc. plummeted Wednesday, a day after the company said its second-quarter profit slipped 34 percent on stock compensation expenses.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2006
Microsoft Tuesday announced the broad public release of a beta developer kit for the .NET Micro Framework at the Embedded Systems Conference being held in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 27, 2006
Intel Corp. plans to begin shipping microprocessors that have four computing engines on a single chip -- products that analysts say will help it win back market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2006
Microsoft has begun beta testing its upcoming System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) version 2, the company said Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 27, 2006
A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 26, 2006
Trying to squeeze more profit from its crucial services division, IBM Corp. is launching an effort to sell more repeatable "products" out of that unit and reduce its reliance on labor-intensive, customized consulting contracts.
- By The Associated Press
- September 26, 2006
Partway into testing of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, Microsoft has released an interim build of the system to be tested on the side by a subset of beta testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 26, 2006
Starting to plan for Windows Vista testing and deployment? Don’t forget to plan in parallel for your applications -- both business productivity as well as corporate apps. <i>Second in a series.</i>
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 25, 2006
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced it has awarded four contracts worth a total $54 million for its program meant to make the information that companies are required to disclose in SEC filings easier for the public to find and understand.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2006
A dusty gravel driveway leads to an old house once occupied by an Appalachian family. Next door is a little shack that sells hot dogs and ice cream, and a few miles away is a series of coal processing plants.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2006
Three people involved in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s efforts to unmask a boardroom leak have been ordered to testify at this week's congressional hearing on the corporate spying scandal that's so far claimed the company's chairwoman and two directors.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2006
It must say something about our times that Bruce Schneier, a geeky computer encryption expert turned all-purpose security guru, occasionally gets recognized in public.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2006
In hopes of fighting Internet fraud, some online banking sites make customers use "virtual keypads" -- a method of entering passwords on the screen, generally with a mouse.
- By The Associated Press
- September 21, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. may be the world's largest technology company, but the superlative that better suits it these days is Provider of the World's Strangest Corporate Drama.
- By The Associated Press
- September 21, 2006