Europeans need to be reassured that radio frequency identification chips won't betray their privacy and can be turned off if desired, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said Monday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Plus, MS sponsors video game safety tour, TopCoder competition hits the Web, more.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Ubiquitous RFID chips can reveal lots of private info, so EU may regulate their manufacture if vendors don't step up with their own efforts.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's release last week of its Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack (OBA RAP) for Supply Chain Management is the first in a series of technical resources. OBAs are designed to help guide the development of what Redmond calls "a new breed of applications" that use Office 2007 as a platform.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Symantec, McAfee and other security vendors to gain access to information needed to make their products work with Vista's security features. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft marketing Vista as a cost savings to businesses in energy consumption, reduced management headache. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ThinkPad notebooks will now allow users to encrypt their hard drives at the press of a finger.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 16, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. said Friday it is on track to deliver the new Windows Vista operating system to its volume license customers around the world in November and to the general public in January. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 13, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company says changes to OS will also be made to accommodate EU, Korea. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 13, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's services chief, Rick Devenuti, will retire at the end of this year after 19 years with the company.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hormel Foods loses bid to trademark the word known more commonly through frequent usage as "unsolicited e-mails." 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Computer hackers have exploited weaknesses in the security technology of a Puerto Rican bank to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars out of two U.S. Virgin Islands government accounts, a finance official said Thursday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the static random access memory market, communications chip-maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Long beta testing phases planned for exams aimed at Windows Mobile application developers.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft officially ended support for SP1 and SP1a on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Call them the M & Ms -- Microsoft and Mozilla, that is. Both are readying major new versions of their browsers --Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 -- for release in the next few weeks. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 12, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Three private investigators in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s boardroom spying probe pleaded not guilty to identity theft and other felony charges.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 10, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google Inc. snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion Monday in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the online video revolution. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- October 10, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released 10 patches, but many organizations didn't get the patches until hours after they were released due to a glitch in Redmond's automatic distribution system.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- October 10, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    More than 13 months after Hurricane Katrina came ashore, Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is moving three of its annual conferences, including two of its largest shows, out of New Orleans -- at least temporarily.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 10, 2006