Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 44 percent on strong sales of microprocessors, but the company's shares fell amid signs that fierce competition continues to push chip prices lower.
- By The Associated Press
- July 19, 2007
PrismTech plans to launch the latest version of its quality of service (QoS) solution for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) on August 15. The solution, OpenSplice Version 3, is designed to ensure scalability and "real-time service delivery" in SOAs, according to an announcement issued by the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2007
There's growing confusion as to when Windows Vista SP1 is going to be released to the public, and even confusion about when it will be tested, and by whom.
- By Keith Ward
- July 19, 2007
Dell, which has been expanding its distribution channels and offerings over the last several years, broadened its reach even further with the announcement that it's buying SilverBack Technologies.
- By Keith Ward
- July 19, 2007
Windows Home Server, Microsoft's first foray into what it hopes will be a lucrative market for consumer-oriented servers, has been released to manufacturing.
- By Keith Ward
- July 18, 2007
A one-year-old partnership between Microsoft and Nortel on unified communications technology, known as the Innovative Communications Alliance, is bearing fruit. The two companies announced this week that they have sold more than 430,000 joint-solutions licenses to date.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2007
Microsoft, long stuck in third place behind Google and Yahoo in the search wars, suddenly boosted its share of the market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- July 18, 2007
Microsoft suddenly boosted its share of the search market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Sept. 17 the day Microsoft goes to court to challenge fines regulators imposed on company for anti-competitive business practices.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.
- By The Associated Press
- July 17, 2007
Microsoft's partners got lauded last week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 event in Denver.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2007
Tools vendor Infragistics today released NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 2, its latest set of presentation components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 16, 2007
In just a couple of weeks, developers will be able to get their hands on the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft's new cross-platform browser media plug-in.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 16, 2007
As Nicholas Negroponte stormed the developing world trying to drum up buyers for the innovative $175 computers designed by his One Laptop Per Child education nonprofit, he encountered a persistent obstacle: competition from Intel Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- July 16, 2007
Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- July 13, 2007
A blogger who sold stock picks to thousands of subscribers has been detained in northern China, as regulators try to reign in freelance operators amid a booming stock market.
- By The Associated Press
- July 13, 2007
Yahoo Inc. took control of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. on Thursday, giving the slumping Internet portal a head start on rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a heated race to build more powerful marketing vehicles.
- By The Associated Press
- July 13, 2007
Microsoft has jumped with both feet into the software plus services end of the pool, announcing the unveiling at its Worldwide Partner Conference this week of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM.
- By Keith Ward
- July 12, 2007
Microsoft on Thursday released an add-on to the previously released CTP of Astoria, a nascent project based around the way data is consumed and exposed on the Web.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2007