Unless there's a pressing need in your environment, you might want to hold off on installing the beta of Apple's Safari browser for Windows, as every day seems to bring a new bug report.
- By Keith Ward
- June 25, 2007
Nearly 43 percent of more than 600 IT and business professionals from various industries are already using open source software, according to a 2007 Open Source Software Survey conducted by Actuate Corp.
- By David Kopf
- June 25, 2007
Tools vendor JetBrains has released ReSharper 3.0, the latest version of its refactoring plug-in for Visual Studio.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 22, 2007
Key shareholders in Opera Software ASA have reshuffled the board of directors after a reported power struggle between board members and the company's chief executive and founder, Jon S. von Tetzchner.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2007
Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2007
After a spat between two of the world's largest Internet companies, online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday it would resume running advertising through Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2007
A North African man and his wife went on trial Wednesday on charges they ran Web sites that supported al-Qaida-linked groups with videos of people killed by terrorists and information on how to make bombs.
- By The Associated Press
- June 21, 2007
Microsoft has released another community technology preview of Sandcastle, a tool for creating documentation for .NET projects.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 21, 2007
A missing computer backup tape containing personal information on state employees also holds the names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers, Gov. Ted Strickland said.
- By The Associated Press
- June 21, 2007
For the past several weeks, there has been a rush among some Linux vendors to ink patent protection deals with Microsoft. But that may have spurred a backlash, as other Linux companies are asserting their independence by refusing to go along with what they see as knuckling under to Microsoft's legal threats.
- By Keith Ward
- June 21, 2007
Windows Vista, in its first half-year of life, has proven to be an exceptionally secure operating system -- much more secure, in fact, than competing desktop OSes, according to Microsoft.
- By Keith Ward
- June 21, 2007
Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer promised Thursday to shift the struggling electronics giant from recovery to growth and to make the PlayStation 3 a profit driver despite its bungled rollout.
- By The Associated Press
- June 21, 2007
BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful -- and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France's corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies.
- By The Associated Press
- June 21, 2007
The Defense Department took as many as 1,500 computers off line because of a cyber attack, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- June 21, 2007
Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its search capabilities in Windows Vista, in response to federal anti-competitive charges leveled by Google. The changes will be part of Vista's service pack 1, which Microsoft said it hopes to have ready by the "end of the year."
- By Keith Ward
- June 20, 2007
A common spamming technique of sending unwanted e-mail pitches as image attachments rather than text is on the decline, as spammers continue adapting their methods for sneaking past e-mail filters.
- By The Associated Press
- June 20, 2007
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is discussing swapping social networking Web site MySpace for a 25 percent stake in Yahoo Inc., The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- June 20, 2007
Microsoft has done an about-face on virtualization licensing for Windows Vista and decided to maintain the status quo.
- By Keith Ward
- June 20, 2007
For sale: A technology security company. Which one? Pretty much any of them.
- By The Associated Press
- June 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Israel-based GigaSpaces Technologies Ltd. to bundle the vendor's extreme transaction processing middleware with a Microsoft front-end and enterprise grid. The agreement is on the heels of GigaSpaces' announcement of version 6.0 of its flagship data grid and caching platform, expected in September.
- By Kathleen Richards
- June 19, 2007