One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what took so long.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 04, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Bush administration is defending new federal rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 04, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft opens up exam discounts to registered members of its Partner program, allows discount to be combined with exam retake offer.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- May 03, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and partner SAP on Tuesday said they are still on schedule to ship their “Project Mendocino” integration product in June.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 03, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Network administration software vendor ScriptLogic announced this week it is shipping the latest revision of its security compliance and auditing solution.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 03, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. will pay $70 million to thousands of California government agencies in the latest legal settlement spurred by price-gouging allegations against the world's largest computer software maker.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is shipping a packaged solution meant to enable third-parties to easily offer hosted application services via the Web.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Research firm predicts release of Vista in late spring of 2007; Microsoft thinks it can make early 2007.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Trying to increase demand for personal computers in India and other emerging markets, Intel Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to promote the use of computers in schools, cafes and other public spots in developing countries. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Truce in lawsuit will have company paying out $70 million to California government agencies.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    No one can quite agree on whether Microsoft Corp. held its first online advertising summit in a conference room or a cafeteria, but what everyone does remember is how little attention was paid to the field just seven years ago.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has begun beta testing Service Pack 1 of Virtual Server 2005 R2, an update to the company’s main virtualization platform that will add support for hardware virtualization in both Intel and AMD processors.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google Inc. is hoping to pressure Microsoft Corp. into changing a new Internet Explorer browser feature that could direct more people to Microsoft's online search engine instead of Google's far more popular offering.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An influential analyst firm is predicting that the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system will come out even later than Microsoft has already forecast.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Field report from the Microsoft Management Summit in San Diego
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- May 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The CEO and two other executives at Comverse Technology Inc. resigned Monday amid a company probe of the timing of stock-option grants at the maker of telecommunications systems and software.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Shares of Microsoft Corp. tumbled 11 percent Friday, after the world's largest software maker reported third-quarter profit that missed Wall Street expectations and lowered its earnings guidance. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An intruder gained access to a Defense Department computer server and compromised confidential health care insurance information for more than 14,000 people, the department said Friday. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The record antitrust fine levied against Microsoft Corp. by the European Commission should be tossed out, or at least greatly reduced, because the punishment outweighed the infraction, company lawyers said Friday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- May 01, 2006