Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
- By The Associated Press
- December 18, 2006
A computer worm is attacking some business PCs through a flaw in antivirus software by Symantec Corp., a security company warned Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- December 18, 2006
UCLA breach latest among several universities to have student records hacked. Breach went undetected for more than a year, affects about 40,000 students.
- By The Associated Press
- December 17, 2006
Worm hits some systems using Norton Antivirus, even though company issued patch back in May.
- By The Associated Press
- December 15, 2006
Lawyers show videotape deposition of Bill Gates in class-action lawsuit against Microsoft.
- By The Associated Press
- December 15, 2006
A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
- By The Associated Press
- December 14, 2006
IBM Corp., which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual property.
- By The Associated Press
- December 14, 2006
Footwear retailer Payless ShoeSource Inc. and discount clothing chain Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay about $425,000 to settle claims they used unlicensed software
- By The Associated Press
- December 13, 2006
IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
- By The Associated Press
- December 13, 2006
The congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard Co.'s boardroom spying probe has demanded that CEO Mark Hurd explain $1.37 million worth of options he exercised just before the scandal became public, two congressmen said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- December 13, 2006
Microsoft said this week it has begun a private beta for its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, sending it out to 2,500 IT professionals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 13, 2006
Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett Packard Corp. on Wednesday afternoon announced a wide-ranging agreement that could cause shock waves among large, enterprise-focused consultants and service providers.
- By Lee Pender
- December 13, 2006
Microsoft and HP announced Wednesday a three-year $300 million deal to collaborate in selling hardware, software and services to their joint customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 13, 2006
Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 13, 2006
Microsoft announced it is shipping the released version 1 of its Microsoft Robotics Studio development environment for creating robotic software for a wide variety of hardware platforms.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 13, 2006
Exam discounts are back and "second-shot" offer returns in a new form, dubbed "Exam Insurance."
- By Michael Domingo
- December 12, 2006
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. still has more cost-cutting ahead, even after a massive restructuring that has sliced the work force by 10 percent, Chief Executive Mark Hurd told analysts Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- December 12, 2006
Windows Vista will spawn more than $70 billion in revenues for Microsoft partners and 100,000 new jobs in the United States in 2007, according to a Microsoft-sponsored study done by IDC analysts.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 12, 2006
Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2006
Demand for microchips that help laptops, video game consoles and other gadgets connect wirelessly to the Internet pushed higher in 2006, a trade group said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- December 12, 2006