A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- June 14, 2007
Another company has agreed to Microsoft's Linux IP amnesty program, adding to the rapidly growing list of open source vendors seeking protection against possible legal action from Redmond.
- By Keith Ward
- June 14, 2007
Microsoft is America's 49th largest corporation, dropping one spot from a year ago in the Fortune 500 list.
- By Keith Ward
- June 13, 2007
A coalition of technology companies and environmental groups led by Google Inc. and Intel Corp. launched an initiative Tuesday to conserve electricity and curb global warming emissions by making the world's computers and servers more energy-efficient.
- By The Associated Press
- June 13, 2007
Partner organizations offer more than just opportunities to rub elbows and trade war stories with colleagues at conferences -- they can pay off, big time, on your company's bottom line.
- By Keith Ward
- June 13, 2007
EU justice chief Franco Frattini said Wednesday that Internet search leader Google Inc. had offered to cut the time it retains data on user searches from the current 24 months to 18 months amid growing concerns it could be violating EU privacy rules.
- By The Associated Press
- June 13, 2007
Coming off Yahoo Inc.'s toughest year since the dot-com bust, Chairman Terry Semel remained upbeat Tuesday as he faced shareholders who have watched their investments shrivel while rival Google Inc. sprinted further ahead in the online advertising race.
- By The Associated Press
- June 13, 2007
Patch Tuesday comes with the publication of six new security bulletins that collectively address vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Outlook Express, Office and Visio.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 12, 2007
The biggest news Apple Inc. made yesterday at the opening of its Worldwide Developers Conference was its announcement that it had ported its Safari Web browser to Windows. CEO Steve Jobs called the beta of Safari 3 "the most innovative browser in the world, and the fastest browser on Windows." He could have added "the most insecure browser on Windows" to that list of superlatives.
- By Keith Ward
- June 12, 2007
Making good on its recent promise to take its rich Internet application development environment into the open source arena, Adobe Systems Inc. has released the public beta of its next generation of Flex 3 development tools.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 12, 2007
Continuing its support of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server 2005, Quest Software recently unveiled its latest offering, Change Director for SQL Server, as well as upgrades to its Performance Analysis for SQL Server 6.0 and Toad SQL Server 3.0.
- By David Kopf
- June 12, 2007
Microsoft's first server aimed at the home market has reached the release candidate phase, and as such, is nearly ready to be pushed out the door.
- By Keith Ward
- June 12, 2007
A key Microsoft virtualization product has gotten an important update.
- By Keith Ward
- June 12, 2007
Just before Google Inc. went public nearly three years ago, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel assured a roomful of securities analysts and money managers that his company would remain the Internet's brightest star. To punctuate his high hopes, Frank Sinatra's "The Best Is Yet to Come" played in the background.
- By The Associated Press
- June 11, 2007
Google has raised the ghost of Microsoft's past -- anti-competitive practices -- in a complaint to the U.S. government about Windows Vista.
- By Keith Ward
- June 11, 2007
A new tunnel has been released which links two disparate Microsoft development tools, creating a more seamless development environment.
- By Kathleen Richards
- June 11, 2007
China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.
- By The Associated Press
- June 11, 2007
Apple Inc.'s computer business may seem like it's taken a back seat lately to its flashy younger siblings, the iPod and iPhone, but Macs are still a key part of the family. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to use his speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday to highlight the upcoming release of Mac OS X, showing that Apple remains a computer company even after dropping "Computer" from its name in January.
- By The Associated Press
- June 11, 2007
Apple launched a version of Safari for Windows-based PCs, pitting it against Internet Explorer and Firefox.
- By The Associated Press
- June 11, 2007
AmberPoint is planning to release an enhanced version of its runtime governance solution for service-oriented architectures (SOAs), rolling out version 6 of its SOA Management System and SOA Validation System.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2007