ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006, according to Scott Guthrie, general manager, Microsoft Developer Division.
- By Kathleen Richards
- September 11, 2006
Dell Inc. has delayed filing its fiscal second-quarter financial report and suspended its share repurchase program because of an ongoing federal accounting probe. It was the latest in a series of setbacks for the world's largest PC maker
- By The Associated Press
- September 11, 2006
Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly.
- By The Associated Press
- September 11, 2006
As expected, Microsoft released three patches today to fix one critical Office vulnerability as well as two Windows flaws.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 11, 2006
When Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini announced an exhaustive review of the company's unprofitable divisions in April, rumors began swirling about scorched-earth job cuts to reverse sinking profits.
- By The Associated Press
- September 07, 2006
Microsoft Corp. today issued a security advisory telling customers it is "investigating" reports of new zero-day code aimed at Microsoft Word 2000.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 07, 2006
Microsoft is rebranding its Retail Management System to become another
offering in its line of Microsoft Dynamics business products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 07, 2006
As expected, Microsoft has widened the availability of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to users who participated in the Vista Beta 2 testing program last spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 07, 2006
Microsoft has changed the requirements for its MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer title, no longer requiring passage of three exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 06, 2006
Brian Valentine, a fixture in Microsoft's management team for nearly 20 years, has left the company to join Amazon.com.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 06, 2006
A San Diego man was so upset that the University of Southern California did not admit him as a student that he hacked into the school's application system and stole other would-be students' personal information, he admitted in court.
- By The Associated Press
- September 06, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
- By The Associated Press
- September 06, 2006
Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated this week a single client agent providing interoperability between the software giant's coming Network Access Protection (NAP) and the networking behemoth's Network Admission Control (NAC) protocols.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 06, 2006
Sun Microsystems and Unisys have filed a lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor in the United States, apparently seeking damages related to a federal probe into price-fixing of memory chips.
- By The Associated Press
- September 05, 2006
Microsoft will broaden distribution of the first "release candidate" of Windows Vista to as many as five million testers beginning this week, after sending initial versions out late last week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 05, 2006
The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the nation's first felony conviction of illegal spamming.
- By The Associated Press
- September 05, 2006
Quest Software announced it is shipping an administration tool designed to simplify management of sites based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 05, 2006
With Intel Corp. apparently poised to announce the latest stage of its restructuring effort, speculation has centered not on whether the world's largest chip maker would be cutting jobs, but on how many.
- By The Associated Press
- September 05, 2006
Gateway has rejected an unsolicited $450 million bid for its retail business from eMachines founder Lap Shun Hui.
- By The Associated Press
- September 03, 2006
Speculation is swirling that Intel will be cutting thousands of jobs in its latest restructuring effort.
- By The Associated Press
- September 03, 2006