Borland commissioned a study on the effectiveness of performance measurements in application development projects. The study surveyed 20 application development and project management organizations with revenues ranging from $1 billion to $5 billion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2007
Microsoft Corp. has started placing advertisements on the U.S. version of MSN Mobile, a Web portal for cell phone browsers that connects users with Hotmail, instant messaging, search, news and other content.
- By The Associated Press
- December 10, 2007
Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6 and officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- December 07, 2007
In case there was any doubt that virtualization is the hottest trend in IT, witness the rush of vendors glomming onto this technology.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is back on the roster for October 2008 in L.A.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft Corp. will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the "$100 laptop" from One Laptop Per Child.
- By The Associated Press
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft publishing release candidates of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack.
- By Keith Ward
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft's last Patch Tuesday release of 2007 is a big one -- seven fixes, with three of them deemed "Critical" and four labeled "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 06, 2007
Weakness in the U.S. economy figures to take a bite out of the technology industry's growth rate in 2008, when analysts expect tech spending to slow around the world.
- By The Associated Press
- December 06, 2007
Researcher in New Zealand discovered holes in Microsoft's Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) program.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 05, 2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 05, 2007
Direct-sales stalwart Dell on Wednesday launched its formal global channel program, providing details and a U.S. launch of the partner program that Chairman and CEO Michael Dell first hinted at in May of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2007
Internet giant Google Inc. and telecommunications carriers AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless are among those expected to bid in January in a government auction of the last remaining smidge of wireless airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- December 05, 2007
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the first component of its new virtualization platform, and laid out a roadmap for opening the platform's source code. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company bills its xVM Ops Center virtualization management tool as a "highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments."
- By John K. Waters
- December 05, 2007
Dell Inc. is reviving plans to buy back shares in the company and will begin to repurchase $10 billion in common stock this week, chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- December 04, 2007
Microsoft beta tests three TS-level exams until Dec. 21.
- By Michael Domingo
- December 04, 2007
Microsoft said that the first service pack for Windows Vista will fight off known exploits as well as kill off its "reduced functionality mode."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 04, 2007
SAP today showed off its latest CRM wares, recast as a good Web 2.0 citizen.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 04, 2007
Google Inc. confirmed its plans to bid for a prized piece of the airwaves in an upcoming government auction, further underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to shake up the wireless market and plumb more profits from mobile phones.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2007
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by an online publisher that claims credit-card companies are enabling the piracy of its pictures of nude models.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2007