The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business.
- By The Associated Press
- March 07, 2007
Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That's intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 07, 2007
Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista -- as promised.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2007
Most people just grumble and hit delete, but when Gordon Dick received a spam message advertising Internet services, he fought back.
- By The Associated Press
- March 07, 2007
An update still hasn't resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- March 06, 2007
Microsoft shows off cutting-edge software inventions at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department.
- By The Associated Press
- March 06, 2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that its FRx Software subsidiary will ship a significant update to its budgeting and planning tool for organizations this spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 06, 2007
Novell quietly announced Monday it is shipping an Office OpenXML/Open Document Format translator that works with its own edition of the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 06, 2007
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday it will restate its financial statements as far back as fiscal 2004 because of past stock option reporting errors and it anticipates a $250 million reduction in previous earnings. Chairman and Co-CEO Jim Balsillie is stepping aside as chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
New study says that we're running out of storage for all that online information.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Wal-Mart fires systems technician for recording of phone conversations and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Speech coding technology used in several Microsoft Corp. applications does not infringe on an Alcatel-Lucent SA patent, a federal judge decided Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries "themselves."
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007