Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
- By Lee Thé
- September 28, 2007
Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
- By Keith Ward
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft Corp. and its hardware partners are trying to bridge the divide between home computers and TV sets this holiday season with the release of several "media extenders."
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
IT administrators looking to move from the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail message server, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2005, are getting a helping hand from PostPath. The company released its One-Step Migration Methodology to help Exchange 5.5 users switch to the PostPath Server 3.0 e-mail and collaboration server.
- By David Kopf
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
Change is a painful thing, and there's nothing like software as a service (SaaS) to inspire dread, especially among the IT partner community. A new study from IDC takes a look at trends happening now that likely will have a "disruptive effect" on the traditional channel partner model as SaaS begins to mature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2007
IBM has rolled out new products to help companies become more efficient and handle bottlenecks in their business processes. The solutions add to IBM's arsenal of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture SOA offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2007
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.
- By Keith Ward
- September 26, 2007
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
- By Keith Ward
- September 25, 2007
Seagate Technology on Monday released a toolkit for system builders to encourage sales of Seagate's storage products with Windows Vista.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 25, 2007
Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15.
- By Keith Ward
- September 25, 2007
Hackers stole millions of credit card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. by intercepting wireless transfers of customer information from two Miami-area Marshalls stores, according to an eight-month investigation by the Canadian government.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2007
The Distributed Management Task Force, an industry organization advocating the development of interoperable server management, has released Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware 2.0.
- By David Kopf
- September 24, 2007
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.
- By The Associated Press
- September 24, 2007
Microsoft will hold the 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston from Monday, July 7 through Thursday, July 10.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2007
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued about $1.3 million for fiscal 2007, a year in which profit at the world's largest software maker topped $14 billion, according to documents filed Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- September 24, 2007
When the job is too big for the Geek Squad, Best Buy for Business turns to the Ingram Micro Services Network.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2007