Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect. 
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- May 16, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hewlett-Packard Co.'s second-quarter profit fell 7 percent despite a dramatic rise in sales of personal computers and servers, narrowly beating Wall Street's forecast.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 16, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- May 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The rate of global software piracy has remained static for three years, but the cost to companies that make the programs is rising, the Business Software Alliance said Tuesday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Bill Gates unveiled a system builder-focused version of the forthcoming Windows Home Server and detailed industry support for WHS.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- May 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses for its Vista operating system in the first 100 days of release.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- May 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Bill Gates confirmed that the next version of Windows Server, formerly code-named "Longhorn," will be called "Windows Server 2008."
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- May 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft says that the open source software community is infringing on its patents, and wants the community to pony up for what it considers theft of its intellectual property, in the form of royalties.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- May 14, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs defended the company's handling of its stock options-backdating scandal Thursday and suggested a former employee's accusations about his role in the matter were wrong.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. and SanDisk Corp. recently announced that they are partnering on the next generation of USB's flash drives and memory cards.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- May 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sun Microsystems commanded the spotlight at its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco last week. The company announced a new JavaFX product line and Java SE development kit, along with an Ericsson partnership (see this week's news for full stories).
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- May 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Server virtualization, code-named "Viridian," is having some features stripped in order to meet its public beta shipping date in the second half of 2007 -- a ship date that recently slipped itself.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently codenamed 'Longhorn.'
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a sign that environmental sensibilities are informing business strategies, IBM Corp. is spending $1 billion to spread technologies and services that could make corporate computing centers more energy efficient.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently code-named "Longhorn."
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday warned of multiple vulnerabilities in its IOS FTP server, an optional service that's disabled by default. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Online retailer Amazon.com and IBM settled all their patent-infringement lawsuits and signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement, the companies said Tuesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 09, 2007