IBM has released Lotus Quickr 8.1, an update to the company's collaborative learning tool. The new version adds Microsoft Outlook support and integration with Lotus Connections, among other enhancements.
- By David Nagel
- March 31, 2008
The International Organization for Standardization plans to announce vote results on the decision to ratify or reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format on Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2008
Security experts warn of rise in "poisoning" of thousands of Web pages via iFrame exploit.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 31, 2008
Microsoft yesterday published a trial version of its latest desktop search engine called Windows Search 4.0 Preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 28, 2008
Microsoft appears to be working on a secret project called Albany, and while no one knows for sure exactly what it is yet, clues indicate that the company is looking to develop a stronger competitor to Google's free, online-hosted Google Docs service.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 27, 2008
Want Windows XP SP3 for real? You can't have it now, but there is a beta Refresh to play with in the mean time.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2008
PCs made by Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, China's Lenovo and others couldn't be upgraded to Vista Service Pack 1 if they were using certain Intel chipsets.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 26, 2008
Microsoft yesterday disclosed some collaborative efforts that will help Java applications read Microsoft Office file formats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2008
Gartner predicted that worldwide PC shipments will be up 10.9 percent this year over last, although it also warned that strains on the economy could drop that number.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 26, 2008
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it's joined forces with Google and MySpace to back OpenSocial, a group that aims to define a common API to allow social applications across multiple sites.
- By David Nagel
- March 26, 2008
Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif.
- By John K. Waters
- March 26, 2008
Windows XP service pack 3 will have its release-to-manufacturing debut in April of this year, according to the Tech ARP Web site.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2008
Microsoft last week made available its set of IT deployment tools and practices called Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2008
Network researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a method that federal systems administrators can use to protect their systems from increasingly complex attacks launched via the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet and private IP networks.
- By Dan Campbell
- March 25, 2008
Vertical business networks will play a significant part in the future of software-as-a-service (SaaS) by consolidating multiple SaaS solutions into more convenient packages, said Colleen Smith, VP of SaaS at Progress Software, in an interview this month.
- By Will Kraft
- March 25, 2008
Like the z9 EC and z9 BC systems that preceded it, IBM's System z10 drastically alters the rules of the mainframe game.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 25, 2008
Microsoft confirmed "very limited, targeted" attacks on an open Word security flaw. The company is researching a patch.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 24, 2008
Like much of the rest of the city, New Orleans' information technology department was nearly crippled by Hurricane Katrina. But as the city continues to put itself back together, the IT department has been able to rebuild -- and even improve some operations. The automation of its business processes has been among the improvements.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 24, 2008
A calculation-error bug in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, which was acknowledged by Microsoft last Friday, has been resolved with a security update.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 21, 2008
Microsoft is on a buying spree, and its latest acquisition is rootkit security vendor Komoku.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 21, 2008