Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.
                    
			            - By Will  Kraft
- October 16, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's "Unified Communications" suite of products aims to blur the distinction between electronic and voice communications.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- October 16, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Apple Inc.'s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X "Leopard," will be available Oct. 26 for $129, and Apple's online store is taking pre-orders, the company said Tuesday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Two antitrust claims brought against Microsoft Corp. by Novell Inc. can proceed, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft and a unit of Best Buy to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violation of racketeering laws.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Multimedia stockpilers need not worry about laptops, digital video recorders or portable music players hitting a storage capacity ceiling any time soon.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 15, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday."
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 12, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization  solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 12, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 12, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 12, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world,  according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail  and Web security appliances. 
                    
			            - By Will  Kraft
- October 12, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Pouncing on an opportunity to add another weapon in an increasingly bitter business software battle, Oracle Corp. has offered to buy struggling rival BEA Systems Inc. for $6.7 billion in its latest shot aimed at another industry leader, SAP AG.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 12, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Recently discovered security hole in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 uses Internet Explorer (IE) 7 as the attack vector; fix is coming.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- October 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co., has signed on as a contributor with Fox News' soon-to-launch business news channel, the media company announced Tuesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 09, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 09, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On Friday, we presented the first installment of the "Top 10 Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008." Today is part two. These are technologies included in Windows 2008 that you may not have heard much about, but could make your life as a Windows IT pro a lot easier. 
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- October 08, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- October 08, 2007