Banks and credit card companies scrambled to tell their customers in the United States and overseas to watch for fraudulent activity after TJX Cos., parent of retailers Marshalls and T.J. Maxx, disclosed thefts of customer data from its computer system.
- By The Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
Profits more than doubled in the fourth quarter for information-management vendor EMC Corp. and beat the estimates of Wall Street analysts Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
Some retailers are planning to use tactics normally reserved for must-have electronics such as new video-game consoles when the Windows Vista computer operating system goes on sale to the public next week.
- By The Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping version 1 of its ASP.NET AJAX developers tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 23, 2007
The popular online hangout MySpace.com has sued a Colorado man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers, saying the man gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and used the information to send spam bulletins.
- By The Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
Quiet surrounding Vista launch highlights changed atmosphere for Microsoft since Windows 95 frenzy.
- By The Associated Press
- January 20, 2007
International Business Machines Corp. rode cost cuts and software acquisitions to healthy fourth-quarter profits, and the company posted a blockbuster number for contract signings. But investors found reasons to be disappointed, sending IBM stock down sharply Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
With iPod sales still soaring, Apple Inc. reaped record profit during the holiday quarter and stands to remain a Wall Street darling despite issuing a second-quarter forecast that fell below analyst expectations.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
The Defense Security Service, a division of the Department of Defense, has issued a statement saying that sections in a report warning that at least three U.S. security contractors had been targeted by so-called "spy coins" are false.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. will build a $550 million data center in San Antonio to house its growing online services.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
Finnish computer experts warned Friday that spammers are taking advantage of people's curiosity over a devastating storm in Europe to spread junk e-mails on the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
Curt Spanburgh, a consultant and systems engineer with Microsoft Gold Certified solution provider Solutions Consulting Group, is named again as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Dynamics CRM.
Cardinal Solutions Group, an 11-year-old Microsoft Gold Certified solutions provider with offices in Cincinnati and Columbus, is expanding outside of Ohio for the first time by opening an office in Charlotte, N.C.
The plaintiffs in Iowa's class-action antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. claim they have uncovered information that indicates the software company is violating its 2002 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
State prosecutors offered to drop felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and the four other defendants in the company's boardroom spying scandal if they agree to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, a defense lawyer said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
Microsoft antitrust plaintiffs allege misconduct over lack of API sharing.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. Long delayed, it's the first in several years, so the company plans an enormous marketing campaign to tout the software as a way to get more out of computers.
- By The Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
Hewlett-Packard Co. extended its lead over Dell Inc. in the worldwide personal-computer market in the fourth quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- January 18, 2007
A business group behind copy-protection software for next-generation DVDs was investigating reports that hackers found a way to circumvent its technology.
- By The Associated Press
- January 18, 2007
Six months after announcing a telecommunications alliance, Microsoft and Nortel this week presented some early results of their efforts and outlined a roadmap for future projects.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 18, 2007