Samsung Electronics Co. and Microsoft Corp. said Thursday they have entered into a patent licensing agreement focused on the technology companies' consumer electronics lines.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Greater investment in technology to improve health care and education would help ease global economic inequality, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Visual Studio "Orcas" and the .NET 3.5 Framework are now in public
beta.
                    
			            - By Kathleen  Richards
- April 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. has finally found a taker for a colorful barcode technology the company shelved two years ago because it failed to catch on.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BlackBerry service was being restored Wednesday morning after an overnight outage that left millions of users without mobile access to their e-mail on the popular device.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program as the two companies vie to dominate the online experience.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle yesterday disclosed what it plans to do with Stellent, an enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider that Oracle acquired in December of last year for about $440 million in cash.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to pay Iowans up to $180 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. wants to provide support to independent software vendors (ISVs) that are plunging into the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers, according to the latest assessment of the agency's security policies released Tuesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Research in Motion confirmed the outage Wednesday morning, but disclosed no details about the cause.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    After enduring a brutal year of plunging profits and massive job cuts, Intel Corp.'s first-quarter profit surge and sunnier financial forecast has analysts optimistic that the chipmaker's painful turnaround is working.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Investors were falling in love with Yahoo Inc. again until the Internet icon's disheartening first-quarter results ruined the mood.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 17, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web -- YouTube and MySpace included -- get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 17, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has added several new messaging offerings to its latest Action Pack.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- April 17, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    EMC Corp. said Tuesday its first-quarter profit rose nearly 15 percent as the data storage vendor reported surging growth in Asia and strong sales of software that helps companies manage information flow.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 17, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 17, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- April 17, 2007