Microsoft Corp. will distribute free software to nonprofit groups to boost charity in India, a company official said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- August 27, 2007
IBM, following the kickoff of its IBM Federal SOA Institute in April, has announced a new certification and training program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2007
A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
- By The Associated Press
- August 24, 2007
Whether it involves choice or price, freedom isn't free. This is especially true in the realm of computer software licensing, where the question isn't if one has to pay for program use and development but rather how, to whom and when.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 24, 2007
Outage unlikely to cause current users to give up on the Internet phone service and consider problems like these to be an acceptable inconvenience.
- By The Associated Press
- August 24, 2007
European Union regulators have charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging the memory chip designer demanded "unreasonable" royalties for its patents that were fraudulently set as industry standards.
- By The Associated Press
- August 23, 2007
WSO2 has released two new open source products for developers of Web services applications. The company is currently offering its Web Services Framework for C (WSF/C) 1.0 product, as well as its Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) 1.0 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2007
An organization that certifies computer software as consumer-friendly and noninvasive has suspended comScore Inc. and one of its programs used to track Internet usage.
- By The Associated Press
- August 23, 2007
A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.
- By The Associated Press
- August 23, 2007
Vouchers for those who ordered back in June will finally get the voucher codes in September, when Windows Server 2008 transition exam goes into beta testing.
- By Michael Domingo
- August 23, 2007
Levanta is offering a virtual machine version of its Linux life-cycle management product that's similar to the company's flagship physical appliance. The product, called Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance, is available as a free software download.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2007
Java programmers who like the open source Spring Framework can develop applications for Web services using the newly released Spring Web Services 1.0 stack.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2007
A Ukrainian man recently arrested in Turkey is suspected of selling some of the credit and debit card numbers stolen in a data hack of at least 45 million cards of TJX Cos. retail customers, a U.S. investigator said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- August 22, 2007
Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to register users with their real names and contact information, according to a new government document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online blogging.
- By The Associated Press
- August 22, 2007
Microsoft's official stance on the recent Skype outage that left millions of users without phone access for two days last week? "Hey, it's not our fault."
- By Keith Ward
- August 21, 2007
A benchmarking report that tracks how well service-oriented architecture (SOA) fits with return on investment (ROI) found an underwhelming correlation so far, based on a survey response. Of 106 enterprises surveyed, just 37 percent indicated a positive ROI from SOA.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2007
Social-networking site Bebo Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a Microsoft-powered instant-messaging program this fall.
- By The Associated Press
- August 21, 2007
The next generation of Microsoft's efforts at unified communications will be unveiled on Oct. 16.
- By Keith Ward
- August 21, 2007
CodeGear, the development-tools arm of Borland Software Corp., is set to release a group of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open source development platform next month. Collectively called JGear, the plug-ins are designed to address pain points faced by Java developers using Eclipse-based tools.
- By John K. Waters
- August 20, 2007
Security for the service-oriented architecture (SOA) was described by Brian V. Cummings of Tata Consultancy Services at the IBM SHARE conference this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 20, 2007