Following in the footsteps of rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors.
- By The Associated Press
- May 10, 2006
A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United
States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.
- By The Associated Press
- May 10, 2006
While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped.
- By The Associated Press
- May 09, 2006
Gaming goes cross-platform, as Microsoft extends offerings to cell phones and upcoming Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- May 09, 2006
While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.
- By The Associated Press
- May 09, 2006
Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 09, 2006
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will introduce later this month a production-ready hybrid hard drive (HHD) that combines flash NAND memory with a large disk drive to dramatically speed system bootups, a Korean paper reports.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 09, 2006
As expected, Microsoft Corp. today released three new security bulletins today as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday announcement, with two of the patches being rated as "critical."
- By The Associated Press
- May 09, 2006
Amid stiffening competition, computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday its fiscal first-quarter results will miss earnings targets, blaming the shortfall on "pricing decisions."
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
NaviSite offers hosted services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.
John Thys still hasn't figured out how much his company has paid Google Inc. for bogus sales referrals caused by "click fraud" -- a sham aimed at a perceived weakness in the Internet search leader's lucrative advertising network.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
Intel Corp. on Monday plans to unveil a single brand name for a new generation of chips for laptop PCs and desktop machines, calling them the Core 2 Duo.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
A man pleaded guilty to charges of launching an attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some that belonged to the Department of Defense, and crippled a hospital's network.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
A federal court has ordered a man who was at the center of the nation's first "spyware" case to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
Two years after conceding his company erred in not developing its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of progress in fighting industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2006
From the business wires this week: a server password management app, .NET rules and Group Policy tools, an enterprise security report solution, and more.
Product life-cycle management (PLM) applications vendor UGS and Microsoft announced this week a multi-year alliance through which they will collaborate to host the smaller company’s suite of products entirely on Windows -- a first, they say.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 04, 2006
Most people probably dream of being the world's richest person -- except, perhaps, the man himself.
- By The Associated Press
- May 04, 2006
In the past year, Microsoft held discussions with search engine competitor Yahoo regarding a possible buyout, or taking a stake in its rival, according to published reports this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 04, 2006