It's unclear how a Virginia Supreme Court ruling may  influence other state and federal laws, but the court on Friday struck down a Virginia law that  prohibits the sending of unsolicited e-mail.
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
 - September 17, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft won't say when the first public beta release of its  Windows 7 operating system will occur, but some possible dates have been  anonymously leaked.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - September 17, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has two new licensing options under its Vista  Enterprise Centralized Desktop program.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
 - September 17, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware CTO Stephen Herrod adds texture and detail to CEO Maritz's Tuesday keynote. 
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
 - September 17, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cray Inc., in conjunction with Intel and Microsoft, on  Tuesday unveiled a relatively low-cost supercomputer that works in office  environments.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - September 16, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
 - September 16, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On the first day of VMware's VMworld conference happening in Las Vegas this week, Citrix Systems -- a competitor of VMware that's also at the conference -- announced the release of XenServer 5, the latest version of its server virtualization solution. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
 - September 16, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - September 15, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Redmond continued to rebuff assertions that a "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8, currently at Beta 2 release, invades user privacy.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
 - September 15, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An industry specification for content management  interoperability services has been floated by three players in the  enterprise content management (ECM) space.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
 - September 15, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Intel this week began rolling out its new line of Xeon processors targeted toward server markets.
                    
			            - By David  Nagel
 - September 15, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry,  according to a survey released this week by Forrester Research.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
 - September 12, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As part of their interoperability partnership, both companies verified running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest OS on Windows and Hyper-V.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - September 11, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sun Microsystems today launched the latest salvo in the virtualization wars with the release of new and upgraded tools and services around its xVM technology. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - September 10, 2008
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Japan, the United States and China topped the list of countries from which Internet attack traffic originates in a recent report by Akamai Technologies Inc. The three countries accounted for more than 60 percent of attack-oriented Internet traffic.
                    
			            - By Dan  Campbell
 - September 10, 2008