Demand for microchips that help laptops, video game consoles and other gadgets connect wirelessly to the Internet pushed higher in 2006, a trade group said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- December 12, 2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- December 11, 2006
Microsoft will sell 90 million copies of Windows Vista in calendar 2007 – 35 million of those in the U.S. alone – according to a new economic study by IDC.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 11, 2006
Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach -- yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.
- By The Associated Press
- December 11, 2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- December 11, 2006
Sun Microsystems unveiled the next generation of the core implementation of its Java platform this week.
- By John K. Waters
- December 11, 2006
Long-awaited update to Microsoft messaging platform goes RTM; security suite also gets rolling.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 08, 2006
With last week’s release of Office 2007, early adopters who work in heterogeneous system environments -- in business marketing organizations, for example -- are likely to experience some short-term angst.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 07, 2006
As businesses start to kick the tires on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, and consumers get ready to gear up for Vista in particular, Microsoft understandably is preparing for the inevitable onslaught of support calls.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 07, 2006
Dell and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the PC maker is shipping a unified, networked storage system based on the software giant's Unified Data Storage Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 06, 2006
Novell Inc. announced this week that its edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will offer support for Microsoft's Office Open XML format by the time the consumer release of Office 2007 ships at the end of January.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 06, 2006
Two-steps to sanity ... er ... a cleaner server.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- December 06, 2006
Here’s a script that enumerates all shared folders on all computers in your domain.
- By Chris Wolf
- December 05, 2006
Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first of four components in its new Expression Studio suite and predicts that the other three will ship in the second quarter of next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 05, 2006
Microsoft announced Tuesday it is shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 05, 2006
Plus: Yahoo! e-mail addresses getting rejected by U.K. site, and yet another Microsoft exploit -- this time for PowerPoint.
- By Russ Cooper
- December 04, 2006
Google Inc., a company synonymous with searching the Internet, hopes to define far more of the world's computing experience with a helping hand from schoolchildren.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2006
Nvidia Corp. said Friday it has been subpoenaed by federal investigators who are probing possible anticompetive practices among makers of computer graphics chips.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2006
Companies that help businesses track and search their e-mails and other electronic data are experiencing a surge of interest in the wake of federal rule changes that clarify requirements to produce such evidence in lawsuits.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2006
A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, causing disruptions that cost NASA, the Energy Department and the Navy nearly $1.5 million.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2006