Google Inc. yanked paid advertisements linked to some 20 search terms that online criminals had hijacked to steal banking and other personal information from Web surfers looking for the Better Business Bureau and other sites. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers. 
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- April 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Component vendor Telerik announced this week that it is readying a set of tools for creating applications with Microsoft's Silverlight rich media plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E). 
                    
			            - By Chris  Kanaracus
- April 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 27, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released solid earnings figures for the third quarter that included debuts of the retail version of Windows Vista and 2007 Office System.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- April 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A provider of Internet addressing services hopes to unify how you navigate the Web when using different browsers and computers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has decided to drop a probe into whether four global computer memory chip manufacturers violated the country's fair trade law, citing insufficient evidence. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Acer Inc., one of the largest computer makers in the world, launched a recall Wednesday of about 27,000 laptop batteries, becoming the latest company to warn of faulty Sony-made lithium-ion batteries that could overheat and cause a fire.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    100,000. That's the number of new jobs that India's top five software companies plan to add this fiscal year, riding a boom in outsourcing that's fattened profits. That's on top of a record 76,500 new employees who joined these companies last year.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a major salvo that ups the stakes in the emerging battle for mindshare among developers and architects building Rich Internet Applications, Adobe today said it is releasing its Flex SDK into the open source community.
                    
			            - By Chris  Kanaracus
- April 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Apple Inc., on a tear with its popular iPod players and Macintosh computers, is expected to report strong quarterly results Wednesday but will face lingering worries over the role its iconic CEO played in its stock options backdating troubles.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. won relief Tuesday from a potentially crippling court order that would have barred it from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sun Microsystems Inc. put together its first back-to-back profitable quarters since the dot-com bust, but its shares plunged on fears its core server business is slowing. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If you're still using a pre-release version of Windows Vista, you have a little more than a month to upgrade to a commercial version before you start risking data loss.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- April 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- April 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records -- twice in two days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 25, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) has launched an ambitious effort to expand its presence in Latin America.
                    
			            - By Anne  Stuart
- April 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A 25-employee startup in Utah has snared a multimillion-dollar contract to provide massive General Electric Co. with software that automatically backs up files on office computers, jolting a market that appears to be getting hot. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security vendor shelves the idea of selling from retail shelves.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 24, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    AVICode, Kyocera among latest companies to achieve the gold standard. 
                    
			            - By Anne  Stuart
- April 24, 2007