Hard-disk drive manufacture makes move into online data storage. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 21, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware announced it will ship VMware Lab Manager on Friday. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Upgrade exam for MCDST certification holders goes through testing rigors in next two weeks.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.'s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world's books, art and historical documents.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Free Software Foundation isn’t going to take it lying down -- Windows Vista, that is.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Vista isn’t even quite out the door, but Microsoft is already soliciting testers to tell them what should be in the next versions of Windows.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers' computers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A computer administrator upset over the possibility of losing his job planted an electronic "bomb" in the systems of one of the nation's largest prescription drug management companies, prosecutors said Tuesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    While Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are virtually out the door, Microsoft continues its march towards updating its server products to match. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 19, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Systems administrator alleged to have planted logic bomb that could have wiped out critical patient data. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 19, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 18, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 18, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 18, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A computer worm is attacking some business PCs through a flaw in antivirus software by Symantec Corp., a security company warned Friday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 18, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    UCLA breach latest among several universities to have student records hacked. Breach went undetected for more than a year, affects about 40,000 students. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 17, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Worm hits some systems using Norton Antivirus, even though company issued patch back in May. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 15, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lawyers show videotape deposition of Bill Gates in class-action lawsuit against Microsoft.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 15, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 14, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM Corp., which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual property.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 14, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Footwear retailer Payless ShoeSource Inc. and discount clothing chain Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay about $425,000 to settle claims they used unlicensed software
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 13, 2006