South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has decided to drop a probe into whether four global computer memory chip manufacturers violated the country's fair trade law, citing insufficient evidence.
- By The Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
Acer Inc., one of the largest computer makers in the world, launched a recall Wednesday of about 27,000 laptop batteries, becoming the latest company to warn of faulty Sony-made lithium-ion batteries that could overheat and cause a fire.
- By The Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
100,000. That's the number of new jobs that India's top five software companies plan to add this fiscal year, riding a boom in outsourcing that's fattened profits. That's on top of a record 76,500 new employees who joined these companies last year.
- By The Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
In a major salvo that ups the stakes in the emerging battle for mindshare among developers and architects building Rich Internet Applications, Adobe today said it is releasing its Flex SDK into the open source community.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- April 26, 2007
Apple Inc., on a tear with its popular iPod players and Macintosh computers, is expected to report strong quarterly results Wednesday but will face lingering worries over the role its iconic CEO played in its stock options backdating troubles.
- By The Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. won relief Tuesday from a potentially crippling court order that would have barred it from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
Sun Microsystems Inc. put together its first back-to-back profitable quarters since the dot-com bust, but its shares plunged on fears its core server business is slowing.
- By The Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
If you're still using a pre-release version of Windows Vista, you have a little more than a month to upgrade to a commercial version before you start risking data loss.
- By Keith Ward
- April 25, 2007
The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
- By Keith Ward
- April 25, 2007
A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records -- twice in two days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols.
- By The Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) has launched an ambitious effort to expand its presence in Latin America.
- By Anne Stuart
- April 24, 2007
A 25-employee startup in Utah has snared a multimillion-dollar contract to provide massive General Electric Co. with software that automatically backs up files on office computers, jolting a market that appears to be getting hot.
- By The Associated Press
- April 24, 2007
Security vendor shelves the idea of selling from retail shelves.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2007
AVICode, Kyocera among latest companies to achieve the gold standard.
- By Anne Stuart
- April 24, 2007
As keystroke dynamics-based authentication finally begins to gain market traction, one company is poised to make a successful run with it.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2007
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 platform got a boost on Monday when Research in Motion announced a new software suite that will provide phones running on WM6 with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- April 24, 2007
Excerpts from a conversation with Microsoft's U.S. channel chief Robert Deshaies.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2007
Hoping to appeal to corporate IT shops looking to do their first implementation of virtualization technology, SWsoft on Wednesday will introduce an entry-level turnkey solution of its flagship product that will be priced below $1,200.
- By Ed Scannell
- April 23, 2007
Fort Worth, Texas-based application system developer Vertical Computer Systems Inc. announced Friday that last week it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 23, 2007
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry
- By The Associated Press
- April 23, 2007