Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software.
- By The Associated Press
- August 16, 2007
Citrix Systems is buying XenSource Inc. for $500 million, marking the second big deal this week in thte virtualization segment.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices yesterday published a proposed specification for a new class of hardware extensions designed to increase the performance of applications running in multicore environments.
- By John K. Waters
- August 15, 2007
Those who suggest that Sun Microsystems' Project Indiana is about making the Solaris operating system more Linux-like are missing the point, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief OS platform strategist. Headlines such as "Sun Hopes for Linux-like Solaris" and "Sun OpenSolaris To Become More Linux-like," drive him crazy.
- By John K. Waters
- August 15, 2007
Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week.
- By John K. Waters
- August 14, 2007
Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- August 14, 2007
The recently launched Oracle 11g database server is now shipping but today's release announcement came with a twist: Some of the new features come at an additional cost.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2007
Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack.
- By Keith Ward
- August 14, 2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 14, 2007
In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business.
- By The Associated Press
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken.
- By The Associated Press
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys.
- By Keith Ward
- August 13, 2007
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that Sync, its in-car communication and entertainment system developed with Microsoft Corp., will cost $395 as an option when it debuts this fall on the Ford Focus, Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX.
- By The Associated Press
- August 10, 2007
To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
The extremely air-conditioned computer farms known as data centers are the gas-guzzling jalopies of the technology world. Some require 40 or 50 times more power than comparably sized office space.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
Microsoft will be releasing a host of patches next week, including six "Critical" and three "Important" updates, in its monthly Patch Tuesday releases.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 09, 2007
A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007