By the end of this year, you'll be seeing something different in the market-Sun x64 servers bearing Windows Server 2003 stickers. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based giant announced in September that it will resell Windows, expanding on the 2004 alliance with Microsoft. The move represents a concession of sorts from Sun, which-particularly under former CEO Scott McNealy, who stepped down in 2006-held steadfast for years in its refusal to sell Windows on its servers.
- By Lee Pender
- December 01, 2007
Google Inc. will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in an upcoming government auction, the company said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2007
Police questioned the suspected teenage kingpin of an international cyber crime network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions of dollars from victims' bank accounts, officials said.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2007
A death originally thought to have been caused by an exploding cell phone is now being blamed on a co-worker, who confessed to making up the story after accidentally striking the victim with a drilling vehicle, South Korean police said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2007
An ambitious plan to re-ignite Dell Inc.'s fortunes has met a mixed response among analysts and investors apparently split over how well _ and how quickly _ the computer maker can reinvent itself as an all-in-one technology juggernaut.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2007
Computers outranked peace and happiness for the most desired gift this year in an annual U.S. survey by the consumer electronics industry's largest trade organization.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2007
ZMP of Japan began selling a two-legged walking robot Thursday that runs on Microsoft's new robotics software -- a product the companies said will make it easier to transfer technology from one robot to another.
- By The Associated Press
- November 29, 2007
The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access.
- By The Associated Press
- November 29, 2007
An electronic privacy group challenging President Bush's domestic spying program scored a minor victory after a judge ordered the federal government to release information about lobbying efforts by telecommunications companies to protect them from prosecution.
- By The Associated Press
- November 29, 2007
Adobe Systems Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch a service Thursday allowing publishers to insert advertisements into many online newsletters or other electronic documents.
- By The Associated Press
- November 29, 2007
Tami Reller, a Microsoft Business Solutions veteran, has a new job as CFO of Microsoft's Platform & Services Division.
- By Barbara Darrow
- November 29, 2007
Microsoft on Friday launches its first major Exchange Server 2007 update, pushing Service Pack 1 out the door.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 29, 2007
Google Inc. is expanding into alternative energy in its most ambitious effort yet to ease the environmental strain caused by the company's voracious appetite for power to run its massive computing centers.
- By The Associated Press
- November 28, 2007
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) recently published GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), a derivative of GPL version 3. Unlike the standard GPL, Affero has an additional clause that allows users who interact with AGPLv3-licensed software over a network to receive the source code for that program.
- By Will Kraft
- November 28, 2007
In a major shift by a large wireless network provider, Verizon Wireless will open its network next year to applications and devices not provided by the carrier.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 27, 2007
HP Software has further developed its business technology optimization</a> (BTO) solutions. The company's bundle of BTO solutions just got easier to use with a new product integration milestone. The announcement came from the HP Software Universe users' conference in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 27, 2007
Intuit Inc. said Monday that it's buying Homestead Technologies Inc. for $170 million in a deal that will provide the financial management software maker with more online tools to sell to small businesses.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2007
Antitrust regulators suspended their probe of IBM's bid for Swedish software provider Telelogic AB until they get more details on the deal, the European Commission said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2007
Microsoft Corp. must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, a federal appeals court has ruled.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2007
If the experience of the world's largest software vendor is any guide, the industry's best hope for reducing piracy rests with anti-copying technologies rather than in policing the legalistic user agreements that restrict how software can be used.
- By The Associated Press
- November 26, 2007