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
An analysis by The Associated Press reveals that targeting small businesses is a lucrative strategy for the Business Software Alliance, the main global copyright-enforcement watchdog for such companies as Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- November 26, 2007
Microsoft finds itself continuing to fend off two security threats, both coming about during the Thanksgiving holiday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 26, 2007
Microsoft Learning improves MCP benefits package with access to Microsoft Partner-level support articles and improved transcript and certification manager.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 26, 2007
The Business Software Alliance collects tens of millions of dollars in settlements from companies it accuses of software piracy, but it doesn't have to file lawsuits to do it. Instead the BSA usually gets companies to convict themselves through a "self audit."
- By The Associated Press
- November 26, 2007
It just got a little easier for developers using Microsoft's .NET Framework technology and SharePoint to integrate their .NET applications with IBM's Java-based portal technology. In a global reseller deal, IBM agreed to sell Mainsoft Corp.'s .NET Extensions solution with the IBM WebSphere Portal solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 21, 2007
Microsoft hopes to have validation testing services available when its long-awaited Windows Server virtualization technology comes online next year.
- By Barbara Darrow
- November 20, 2007
Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- November 19, 2007
If it's time for Christmas music in Wal-Mart, it must the season for that other time-honored tradition: year-end lists. To that end, IT security Goliath Symantec has released a list of the biggest security stories of the year.
- By Keith Ward
- November 19, 2007
Alfred Zaccaria was finally going to leave the world of dial-up for high-speed access to the Internet without having to pay a lot more for service.
- By The Associated Press
- November 19, 2007
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 to MSDN customers for downloading, making it the first of the "big three" platforms of the coming "Global Launch Wave."
- By Kathleen Richards
- November 19, 2007
Microsoft recently tapped Reed Sturtevant, a Lotus, Radnet and Idealab vet, to spearhead concept development in its spiffy new Cambridge, Mass. facility.
- By Barbara Darrow
- November 16, 2007
A U.N. telecoms meeting decided Thursday to give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015.
- By The Associated Press
- November 16, 2007
Data breaches, ongoing integrity concerns about the Windows Vista operating system and spam, which reached record levels this year, topped Symantec's Top 10 Internet security trends of 2007 list.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 16, 2007
A U.N.-sponsored Internet conference ended Thursday with little to show in closing the issue of U.S. control over how people around the world access e-mail and Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- November 16, 2007
Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison told analysts Wednesday that the business software maker is more likely to pursue other takeover targets instead of renewing its recent $6.7 billion bid for rival BEA Systems Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- November 15, 2007
The Internet is a powerful tool for free expression and dissent, but those freedoms have also helped child pornographers, predators, terrorists and other cybercriminals.
- By The Associated Press
- November 15, 2007
Windows Vista is now on the migration map for most enterprise customers, at least according to one researcher. But it's still getting hammered in the media.
- By Barbara Darrow
- November 14, 2007
Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action for security pros and database administrators everywhere.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 14, 2007
Microsoft today launched an updated version of its Windows Embedded CE platform with a release that will let developers build new devices that take advantage of some of the APIs and Web services interfaces available on Windows Vista and the company’s forthcoming Windows Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 14, 2007