The head of a leading security software vendor denounced the use of data files commonly used by Google Inc. and other Web sites to track user activity, saying such sites should seek permission ahead of time.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 19, 2007
Although technology companies like to say they can revolutionize any business, many blue-chip vendors have concentrated on selling only to certain businesses: the biggest ones.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2007
Exam retake program provides opportunity for candidates to retake a failed exam; registration is required.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2007
A computer administrator at one of the nation's largest prescription drug management companies admitted Wednesday he planted an electronic "bomb" in the company's computer system.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2007
Google Docs, which is trying to muscle in on Microsoft's Office suite, has released its PowerPoint counterpart, known as "Google Presentations."
- By Keith Ward
- September 18, 2007
Jason Zander began his first day in his new job as GM overseeing the Visual Studio Team at the VSLive New York conference Monday. Zander, the opening keynoter at VSLive in downtown Brooklyn early Monday morning, just got word of his new assignment on Friday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 18, 2007
CodeGear announced yesterday the general availability of its first development tool for Ruby-on-Rails (RoR). The company's new 3rdRail integrated development environment (IDE) comes with several features specifically designed to make it easier and faster for both new and experienced Rails developers to build database-driven Web applications.
- By John K. Waters
- September 18, 2007
Yahoo Inc. is buying e-mail service Zimbra Inc. for $350 million in an all-cash deal that may open a new revenue channel for the slumping Internet icon.
- By The Associated Press
- September 18, 2007
Shares of software maker Adobe Systems Inc. rose Tuesday, a day after reporting its third-quarter profit more than doubled on a 41 percent revenue increase.
- By The Associated Press
- September 18, 2007
The dozens of entrepreneurs gathered for an exclusive high-tech conference here Monday all hope to dazzle the crowd with their ingenuity.
- By The Associated Press
- September 17, 2007
Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 17, 2007
A European court upheld earlier ruling that Microsoft abused its monopoly position on several fronts.
- By Keith Ward
- September 17, 2007
Online crooks are quickly enlarging an already vast sales and distribution network to propagate spam and send malicious software in hopes of infecting millions of computers worldwide, according to a new report.
- By The Associated Press
- September 17, 2007
Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Chris Kanaracus
- September 14, 2007
VMware's dazzling Wall Street debut last month aimed a spotlight on virtualization, the rapidly evolving technology that provides a logical view of computing resources, rather than a physical view. This week (Sept. 11-13), the beam stayed focused, as nearly 11,000 people attended the company's annual VMworld Conference and Expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
- By John K. Waters
- September 14, 2007
The SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2007
Drawing upon its clout as the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc. is calling on businesses and regulators throughout the world to adopt international standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2007