An alliance of businesses, colleges and federal crime fighters will combine their expertise at a new research center that will study the problems of identity theft and fraud.
- By The Associated Press
- June 28, 2006
Computer Associates will ship in August a new database for storing configuration management information for its CA Service Management Accelerator product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 28, 2006
Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised -- a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.
- By The Associated Press
- June 28, 2006
Microsoft quietly announced Friday that its long-promised next-generation universal file system is either dead or just emerging from its pupa to take wing as a butterfly.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 27, 2006
Microsoft Corp. has launched an online preview of its new Office business software, as part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases.
- By The Associated Press
- June 27, 2006
Intel Corp. introduced its latest microprocessor for server computers Monday, one of a trio of new chips the world's biggest semiconductor maker is counting on to regain market share lost to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- June 27, 2006
Police in Britain and Finland have arrested three men suspected of conspiring to spread computer viruses through spamming, Metropolitan Police said.
- By The Associated Press
- June 27, 2006
Patch management is still an issue for IT if Microsoft's 12-bulletin June Patch Tuesday is any indication. A roundup of third-party patch management activity over the last few months.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2006
Say goodbye soon to those pop-up ads from Claria Corp.'s oft-vilified ad-targeting technology. On July 1, Claria will stop running ads generated by its pioneering but highly criticized "adware" programs that monitor where people surf.
- By The Associated Press
- June 26, 2006
As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
- By The Associated Press
- June 26, 2006
Ohio University's Computer Services department was running seven-figure surpluses and spending on generous benefits for employees while it was failing to make adequate investments in firewalls and other computer security measures, according to an outside consultant's report.
- By The Associated Press
- June 26, 2006
Microsoft Corp.'s best-known business software is for creating spreadsheets, documents and presentations, but the company is hoping to convince corporations that it also can be the one-stop shop for sophisticated communications technology.
- By The Associated Press
- June 26, 2006
Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division, and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work.
- By The Associated Press
- June 23, 2006
The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people.
- By The Associated Press
- June 23, 2006
Microsoft announced this week it has teamed up with nonprofit licensing organization Creative Commons to provide users with a copyright licensing tool that works in the Office productivity applications suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 22, 2006
Absoft Corp. announced it is shipping its Fortran compiler for 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 22, 2006
The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer is testing the possibility of selling Apple Computer Inc.'s full line of computers in its stores. Currently, Best Buy carries only Apple's iPod music player and accessories.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2006
Publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Web search engine Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2006
A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security identification numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2006
Novell this morning announced that its Board of Directors has ousted the company's CEO and CFO.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 22, 2006