Google is issuing this warning to people who try to click on links to sites with spyware and other malicious code: "The site you are about to visit may harm your computer!"
- By The Associated Press
- August 10, 2006
A recent high-profile Microsoft hire, brought onboard to work on Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Windows Live vision, has suddenly announced his pending departure, citing a pullback on plans he had signed on to implement.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 10, 2006
As the competition for information management and control platforms heats up, IBM announced late this week that it will acquire content management vendor FileNet in a deal valued at $1.6 billion in cash.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 10, 2006
Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. jumped nearly 12 percent in pre-market trading Wednesday, a day after the network-equipment maker reported a gain in fiscal fourth-quarter profit and issued a bullish outlook.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2006
Microsoft this week announced that it will discontinue work on future versions of Virtual PC for the Mac.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 09, 2006
Delta Air Lines Inc. asked a bankruptcy judge Tuesday to let the nation's third-largest carrier use IBM Corp. rather than its own employees to maintain its computer systems.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2006
Despite calls by some beta testers for Microsoft to release a third beta of Windows Vista, the company appears to be instead readying to push its first golden code candidate out the door.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 09, 2006
Microsoft announced this week at the SpeechTEK 2006 conference in New York that it will integrate the full capabilities of its Speech Server 2007 into Office Communications Server 2007.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 08, 2006
Apple Computer Inc. completed its switch to Intel Corp. microprocessors and previewed its next-generation operating system Monday, shifting attention -- for the moment -- from the company's troubles surrounding the mishandling of stock options.
- By The Associated Press
- August 08, 2006
In another sign of the inroads Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is making against rival Intel Corp., No. 3 computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. is rolling out a new line of desktop PCs with AMD chips.
- By The Associated Press
- August 08, 2006
Microsoft has begun beta testing its upcoming Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager on schedule, the company disclosed this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 08, 2006
In hopes of complimenting its suite of remote access and support services, LogMeIn has purchased Applied Networking, Inc., a small developer of “instant” virtual private networking (VPN) services.
- By Ed Scannell
- August 07, 2006
When Microsoft Corp. said it planned to begin checking for pirated copies of its Windows operating system using the method it set up to send people security fixes, even some of the company's traditional critics could sympathize.
- By The Associated Press
- August 04, 2006
Microsoft will be releasing 12 patches for Windows and Office this coming Tuesday as part of its monthly 'Patch Tuesday' cycle.
- By Becky Nagel
- August 04, 2006
Microsoft has started revealing more details about new features that will arrive with its upcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 03, 2006
After suffering embarrassing security exploits over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. is trying a new tactic: inviting some of the world's best-known computer experts to try to poke holes in Vista, the next generation of its Windows operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- August 03, 2006
A group of industry leaders this week announced a new draft specification aimed at simplifying IT administration across heterogeneous networked environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 03, 2006
Some computers with wireless Internet capabilities are vulnerable to attacks that could expose passwords, bank account details and other sensitive information even if the machines aren't actually online, researchers said in Las Vegas Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- August 03, 2006
Taking its most expansive efforts yet to deal with its long, steady decline in subscribers, AOL is giving away e-mail accounts along with software previously available only to customers who paid as much as $26 a month.
- By The Associated Press
- August 02, 2006
Microsoft Corp. was hoping new voice-recognition software would impress an auditorium full of financial analysts, but a glitch turned the demonstration into a bit of an embarrassment.
- By The Associated Press
- August 02, 2006