Billionaire Carlos Slim said he doesn't care if he is the world's richest man and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.
- By The Associated Press
- August 03, 2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.
- By The Associated Press
- August 03, 2007
Microsoft Corp. will test a free, advertising-supported version of Works, an already inexpensive package of word processing, spreadsheet and other programs, but would not say whether it is exploring a similar Web-based suite.
- By The Associated Press
- August 03, 2007
Anticipated improvements to the way polices are set up and managed in one or more instances did not make it into the second CTP of SQL Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 03, 2007
SourceLabs is offering the latest version of its open source Java stack for enterprises. The company's SASH 2 software suite lets companies escape being locked into proprietary solutions by combining the popular Spring, Axis, Struts and Hibernate open source solutions. The stack works with Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic servers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2007
It's a service-oriented architecture (SOA) world -- well, not quite for everyone yet. However, what happens when IT departments increasingly use SOA to expose data and applications as services? The next step might be to begin collecting and using those services to create something useful.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 02, 2007
In a victory for Microsoft's open source efforts, Massachusetts has decided to accept Microsoft's Office file format as sufficiently open to allow it to compete with other office productivity suites.
- By Keith Ward
- August 02, 2007
The next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac platform has been delayed until next year.
- By Keith Ward
- August 02, 2007
Apple Inc. has issued a software patch to fix some security holes that independent security researchers recently discovered for the company's vaunted iPhone.
- By The Associated Press
- August 02, 2007
Conduct strategic business planning and ask key questions -- especially if your company is missing its year-end goals.
- By Ken Thoreson
- August 01, 2007
Partners need to be nimble when Redmond ventures into new territories, but they also have to wait.
- By Paul DeGroot
- August 01, 2007
Watch out for security pitfalls, such as increasingly popular instant messaging apps.
- By Ari Tammam
- August 01, 2007
Microsoft executives view their 'benefits wheel' as the hub of their new campaign to get the right benefit to the right partner at the right time.
- By Anne Stuart
- August 01, 2007
In solution selling, partners and customers join forces to solve problems -- and both parties win.
- By Fred Bayles
- August 01, 2007
For customers struggling to manage and maintain security wares from multiple vendors, Forefront offers a Microsoft-centric alternative.
- By Joanne Cummings
- August 01, 2007