Oracle Corp's fiscal third quarter profit climbed 35 percent, lifted by strong software sales that exceeded management's projections. The Redwood Shores-based business software maker said Tuesday that it earned $1.03 billion, or 20 cents per share, for the three months ended in February. That compared with net income of $765 million, or 14 cents per share, at the same time last year.
- By The Associated Press
- March 20, 2007
Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2007
Novell quietly announced Monday it is shipping an Office OpenXML/Open Document Format translator that works with its own edition of the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 06, 2007
A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007
Microsoft is asking rivals to pay too much for information that can help software interoperate, claims European Union commissioner.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
Microsoft and SAP have a successful Duet together, but they'll be less harmonious as they battle for ERP supremacy. Partners might be forced to take sides.
- By Lee Pender
- March 01, 2007
A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
For the first time in 22 years, daylight saving time starts three weeks sooner and ends one week later than normal. Although the consequences from an earlier "spring forward" and later "fall back" doesn’t represent the level of threat imagined with Y2K, there are enough little snafus and "gotchas" to keep any IT manager busy for the next couple of weeks.
- By Chris DeVoney
- March 01, 2007
Ray Ozzie says Microsoft will answer with plans that more than mimic its rivals successes.
- By The Associated Press
- February 28, 2007
Apple Inc. has delayed until March the launch of its gadget for streaming video and other content from computers to TVs, but the company would not explain why. The company had said in January the $299 Apple TV set-top box would be available this month.
- By The Associated Press
- February 27, 2007
The Redmond giant says security issues are of concern with Vista Basic and Home Premium users, but Business and Ultimate licensees can run virtualized safely.
- By The Associated Press
- February 22, 2007
A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves.
- By The Associated Press
- February 20, 2007
Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire -- Microsoft Corp. -- by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.
- By The Associated Press
- February 20, 2007
Mom, they're arguing again.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 15, 2007
Novell and Microsoft on Monday presented an update on the two firms' progress in their November deal to make nice and work more closely together.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 13, 2007
Apple Inc. indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if the world's major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as the industry's security blanket.
- By The Associated Press
- February 08, 2007
Sun Microsystems Wednesday took the wraps off of its OpenDocument Format, or ODF, add-in for saving Microsoft Office 2003 documents in the emerging open standard's file format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 08, 2007
Open source group SourceForge.net is shipping version 1.0 of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, the organization said in a statement.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 06, 2007
On February 2, Microsoft released the February CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a cross-platform browser plug-in that allows clients to display and play back rich media, 3D and vector graphics, animation, audio and video.
- By Michael Desmond
- February 06, 2007
Microsoft is finally getting real about a one-stop strategy for e-mail, voice mail, IM and Web conferencing -- and that's creating plenty of opportunities for partners.
- By Lauren Gibbons Paul
- February 01, 2007