Profits more than doubled in the fourth quarter for information-management vendor EMC Corp. and beat the estimates of Wall Street analysts Tuesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Some retailers are planning to use tactics normally reserved for must-have electronics such as new video-game consoles when the Windows Vista computer operating system goes on sale to the public next week.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping version 1 of its ASP.NET AJAX developers tools.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The popular online hangout MySpace.com has sued a Colorado man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers, saying the man gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and used the information to send spam bulletins.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 23, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Quiet surrounding Vista launch highlights changed atmosphere for Microsoft since Windows 95 frenzy.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 20, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    International Business Machines Corp. rode cost cuts and software acquisitions to healthy fourth-quarter profits, and the company posted a blockbuster number for contract signings. But investors found reasons to be disappointed, sending IBM stock down sharply Friday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With iPod sales still soaring, Apple Inc. reaped record profit during the holiday quarter and stands to remain a Wall Street darling despite issuing a second-quarter forecast that fell below analyst expectations.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Defense Security Service, a division of the Department of Defense, has issued a statement saying that sections in a report warning that at least three U.S. security contractors had been targeted by so-called "spy coins" are false. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. will build a $550 million data center in San Antonio to house its growing online services. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Finnish computer experts warned Friday that spammers are taking advantage of people's curiosity over a devastating storm in Europe to spread junk e-mails on the Internet.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Curt Spanburgh, a consultant and systems engineer with Microsoft Gold Certified solution provider Solutions Consulting Group, is named again as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Dynamics CRM.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cardinal Solutions Group, an 11-year-old Microsoft Gold Certified solutions provider with offices in Cincinnati and Columbus, is expanding outside of Ohio for the first time by opening an office in Charlotte, N.C.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The plaintiffs in Iowa's class-action antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. claim they have uncovered information that indicates the software company is violating its 2002 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    State prosecutors offered to drop felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and the four other defendants in the company's boardroom spying scandal if they agree to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, a defense lawyer said Thursday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft antitrust plaintiffs allege misconduct over lack of API sharing.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. Long delayed, it's the first in several years, so the company plans an enormous marketing campaign to tout the software as a way to get more out of computers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 19, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hewlett-Packard Co. extended its lead over Dell Inc. in the worldwide personal-computer market in the fourth quarter. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A business group behind copy-protection software for next-generation DVDs was investigating reports that hackers found a way to circumvent its technology.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Six months after announcing a telecommunications alliance, Microsoft and Nortel this week presented some early results of their efforts and outlined a roadmap for future projects. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 18, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has released its Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007 (BDD 2007), a set of tools and guidance on how to use them to enable IT shops to deploy desktops running Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, 2007 Microsoft Office system, or Microsoft Office 2003. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 18, 2007