The Naval Research Laboratory researchers are helping develop a set of routing protocols for setting up mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).
- By Joab Jackson
- March 12, 2008
Yesterday, Nortel and Microsoft jointly announced four new unified communications (UC) products designed to help bring together enterprise voice, data, e-mail and other systems.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 12, 2008
Ease of use was a big emphasis on stage at Convergence 2008, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer noting the Microsoft Office-like interface of Dynamics products in his keynote address.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2008
The National Security Agency is leading an effort to extend its access control work into the arena of network file storage. The effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access control (MAC) architecture -- now the basis of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) -- into the Network File System (NFS) protocol widely used for network-attached storage devices.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 12, 2008
Microsoft today announced its intent to acquire Kidaro, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of enterprise desktop virtualization software.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 12, 2008
Yahoo just lost another option in its battle to stave off Microsoft's hostile takeover bid.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 11, 2008
Court papers suggest that Microsoft's change of heart earlier this year to open up Windows Vista virtualization licensing may have been influenced by litigation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2008
The use of software as a service (SaaS) among small-to-medium businesses is on the rise, according to a report by Access Market International Partners (AMI-Partners).
- By Will Kraft
- March 11, 2008
Sun, Microsoft are working together to develop a set of guidelines for implementing Exchange Server 2007 on Sun server and storage hardware.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 11, 2008
Microsoft rolled out four "critical" security bulletins -- all with as many as 12 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, according to security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 11, 2008
Ensuring that schools in low-income communities have access to the same technologies as wealthier schools isn't enough for James Burgett, executive director of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center in Northern California. He wants them to have better technology, and he wants them to have it for free.
- By David Nagel
- March 10, 2008
According to IDG news service, Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza publicly decried his company's patent licensing deal with Microsoft at Redmond's MIX08 conference last week in Las Vegas.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 10, 2008
A computing research organization said that enrollments and degrees at United States-based computer science departments dropped further in 2006 and 2007.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- March 10, 2008
Enterprise solution provider Software AG announced its webMethods Application Modernization Suite -- software designed to bring service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and other improvements to standard mainframe infrastructures.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 10, 2008
According to a story posted on TechCrunch this morning, Microsoft and Google are both preparing to make bids on the user-driven news aggregation site Digg.com.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 07, 2008
In a rare display of contrition, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday acknowledged frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to upgrade its Internet Explorer browser more routinely, as well the questionable decision to pursue separate development paths for Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 07, 2008
Aruba Networks claims that a recent study shows that not only do various vendors' 802.11n access points deliver dramatically different performances, some vendors' equipment is much better than others at working with third-party client adapters.
- By Patrick Marshall
- March 06, 2008
After spending 13 years as the richest person in the world, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has dropped to No. 3.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft announced that it will be releasing four patches, all rated critical because they allow remote-code execution, and all involving Microsoft Office in some way.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft's Students to Business portal pairs U.S. college students working toward IT careers with companies who are looking to fill entry-level IT positions.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008