Averting a looming court battle over how it has been handling the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia.
- By The Associated Press
- July 11, 2007
DENVER -- Microsoft this week launched a tool at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference to help partners walk their customers through licensing options.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2007
Oracle on Wednesday took the wraps off the long-anticipated new version of its flagship database, a release that provides a substantial increase in performance, storage management and availability, according to the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 11, 2007
Meeting past promises, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 11, 2007
Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
- By The Associated Press
- July 11, 2007
Openbravo, a Pamplona, Spain-based provider of open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium-size businesses, is seeking partners around the globe. The company, which was founded in 2001 under the name "Tecnicia," launched its "Pioneers" program today to establish international partnerships.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2007
Just this week, a security researcher alerted Internet Explorer users (and Microsoft itself) to a new input validation vulnerability in IE 7.0.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 11, 2007
DENVER -- Microsoft is launching a partner-driven program to promote early adoption of Dynamics Live CRM, the company announced Tuesday at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver.
- By Anne Stuart
- July 10, 2007
Dell Inc. is launching a new line of notebook and desktop personal computers called "Vostro" that are aimed at small businesses with 25 or fewer employees.
- By The Associated Press
- July 10, 2007
Feb. 27, 2008 promises to be one of the most important dates in Microsoft's 33-year history, as it will release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- July 10, 2007
With this week's Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft kicked off its monthly patching exercise with three critical security bulletins.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 10, 2007
Attendees at IBM's Impact 2007 event held in May had some interesting opinions on their companies' plans for service-oriented architectures (SOAs). IBM commissioned the Link Group, a marketing research firm, to conduct the survey. The exact number of respondents wasn't disclosed in an IBM press release describing the survey's findings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 10, 2007
Microsoft's Software Assurance (SA) licensing program could be in big trouble, with many customers feeling they're not getting their money's worth, according to a survey from Forrester Research.
- By Keith Ward
- July 09, 2007
Windows Vista Service Pack (SP)1 is back on track.
- By Keith Ward
- July 09, 2007
D&H Distributing, the Harrisburg, Pa.-based computer distributor focused on SMB resellers, on Monday opened a subsidiary in Canada.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2007
Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, will invest $218.5 million in virtualization software maker VMware Inc., the companies announced Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- July 09, 2007
On Feb. 27, 2008 Microsoft plans to release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- July 09, 2007
Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products.
- By The Associated Press
- July 09, 2007
Microsoft Corp. plans to open a software development center in Canada this fall to attract talent and avoid U.S. immigration issues.
- By The Associated Press
- July 06, 2007
Microsoft continues to tweak its "Live" services effort, converging its current Windows Live Platform and Windows Live Core efforts, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday afternoon.
- By Barbara Darrow
- July 06, 2007