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
NetIQ says it will ship next week a new Windows-based tool aimed at simplifying user change administration.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2006
From the business wires this week: a file transfer client/server for heterogenous environments, SQL Server and Exchange backup solutions, and a site for SOA resources.
- By Dan Hong
- March 03, 2006
Microsoft is calling "speculation" a report that the company will have its highly anticipated grand gala to roll out Windows Vista in the first week of October.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 02, 2006
Microsoft is ready to unveil some heavy-hitting products in '06.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 01, 2006
Microsoft began shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of Exchange 12 on Wednesday, marking the beginning of its first widespread testing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 01, 2006
A Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison in a computer theft case involving more than 1 billion records that Acxiom Corp., a data-management company, collected in its work for large corporations.
- By The Associated Press
- February 23, 2006
Popular "second-shot" promotion keeps coming back; this time, it's worldwide.
- By Becky Nagel
- February 15, 2006
Microsoft has quietly moved the delivery date of the next service pack for Windows XP to the second half of next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 20, 2006
Everybody knows you need to reach out and touch your customers. The tricky part is figuring out just how often you can do so before you cross the line between attentive and annoying.
- By Fred Bayles
- January 01, 2006
Plenty -- as long as you combine it with a solid strategy to overcome SMBs' inherent fear of investing in IT.
- By Joanna L. Krotz
- January 01, 2006
Competing with Linux once filled Microsoft partners with dread, but now
many are taking on the open source operating system with growing self-confidence
-- and success. Here are the tactics for winning the fight.
- By Rich Freeman
- January 01, 2006
Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 01, 2006
An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.
- By Lafe Low
- January 01, 2006