Best Buy became the first national retailer to achieve Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, the companies said Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 14, 2006
Sanbolic releases updated file system and volume manager solutions for SAN storage systems.
- By Dan Hong
- March 13, 2006
The world industrial-standards association has rejected China's controversial wireless encryption standard for global use, news reports said Monday, dealing a blow to Beijing's effort to promote its own standards for computers and telecoms.
- By The Associated Press
- March 13, 2006
The FBI plans to spend up to $500 million building the final piece of its delayed, troubled technology upgrade, yet risks a repeat of earlier missteps that led to excessive costs, according to a government report released Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 13, 2006
The identities of 2,600 Central Intelligence Agency employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency's covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>.
- By The Associated Press
- March 13, 2006
The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government.
- By The Associated Press
- March 13, 2006
China will offer tax breaks to technologically innovative companies and boost spending to promote scientific breakthroughs as part of a new program to create an "innovation-oriented country," an official said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 10, 2006
The European Commission told Microsoft Corp. on Friday that it was "still not in compliance" with a 2004 antitrust ruling that ordered it to share information with rivals to make their software work with Microsoft servers.
- By The Associated Press
- March 10, 2006
A group of students at Rome Catholic School are learning how to become the future defenders of cyberspace through a pilot program that officials say is the first of its kind in the country.
- By The Associated Press
- March 10, 2006
The maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, fresh from settling a lawsuit that threatened its very business, is buying a company that will allow it to marry BlackBerries with corporate phone systems.
- By The Associated Press
- March 10, 2006
Microsoft plans to release two security bulletins next week addressing a critical vulnerability in Office and an important flaw in Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2006
Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud."
- By The Associated Press
- March 09, 2006
Microsoft Corp. finally took the wraps off its mysterious Project Origami on Thursday, unveiling a computer that's about the size of a large paperback book but runs a full version of the Windows XP operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- March 09, 2006
The French government, bowing to pressure from lawmakers, revived a measure legalizing file-sharing and submitted it to debate Thursday as part of a larger draft law on fighting piracy.
- By The Associated Press
- March 09, 2006
Microsoft has promoted Scotsman Bill Laing to lead its Windows Server division
after having moved the last executive to hold the post, Bob Muglia, up to be senior vice president of the Server and Tools business.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 09, 2006
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has purchased Cambridge, Mass.-based Onfolio and has incorporated its end-user information collection tool as an add-in to its Windows Live Toolbar.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 08, 2006
How do you get five “9”s of server reliability by spending only four “9”s in acquisition costs? That’s the hook that Maynard, Mass.-based Stratus is tossing out with its new entry level ftServer W Series 2400 line of fault-tolerant Windows servers, which it introduced this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 08, 2006
Hoping to leap ahead of smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. unveiled details of a next-generation chip design that it claims will perform better -- and consume less power -- than today's Pentium 4.
- By The Associated Press
- March 07, 2006
Intel and Microsoft lifted the veil on further collaborations around the chipmaker’s virtualization technologies, including efforts to let two of the companies’ key management products interoperate.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2006
Google Inc. on Tuesday advised investors to disregard an internal financial forecast mistakenly posted on its Web site -- a mix up that included a reference to management's concerns about the online search engine leader's profits narrowing amid tougher competition.
- By The Associated Press
- March 07, 2006