Critics thought it was over the top when Amazon.com Inc. expanded from books into music in 1998. When the Web retailer let competitors start selling things alongside its own inventory in 2000, they said Amazon had gone nuts.
- By The Associated Press
- February 01, 2008
Microsoft today has made a surprise bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. for a $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the company's closing share price Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 01, 2008
Yesterday VMware announced it has released a live version of Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) 2 and integrated it with its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure management product.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 31, 2008
At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- January 31, 2008
A new tool released late last week lets you take as much of the "feature bloat" as you want out of Windows Vista -- and then some.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 31, 2008
Yesterday IBM announced the release of PowerVM Express and a new Power6 microprocessor which, when combined, will bring new efficiencies to virtualization for small- and medium-size businesses, it said.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 31, 2008
Once left for dead, Sybase Inc. has shored up its key tools and mobile businesses, while it remains a factor in a database market dominated by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2008
Court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s market power, which began in 2002 after a landmark antitrust settlement, has been extended by 18 months.
- By The Associated Press
- January 30, 2008
Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 29, 2008
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages -- and taking both applications open source.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
A breach at Baylor University is the latest in a string of more than a dozen data security incidents on United States campuses reported by a variety of sources so far in January 2008.
- By David Nagel
- January 29, 2008
VMware Inc.'s high-flying stock plunged by more than 30 percent Tuesday as investors reacted to a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report that raised worries about the business software maker's ability to cope with tougher competition and a slowing U.S. economy.
- By The Associated Press
- January 29, 2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
- By David Nagel
- January 29, 2008
VMLogix is joining forces with the Fort Lauderdale, Fla-based company to make its virtual lab automation solutions available on Citrix's newly acquired XenServer.
- By John K. Waters
- January 29, 2008