Court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s market power, which began in 2002 after a landmark antitrust settlement, has been extended by 18 months.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages -- and taking both applications open source.
Hoping to snap out of a financial malaise, Yahoo is preparing to lay off as many as 1,000 workers in the Sunnyvale-based company's biggest purge since it was scrambling to survive the dot-com bust seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2008
A breach at Baylor University is the latest in a string of more than a dozen data security incidents on United States campuses reported by a variety of sources so far in January 2008.
Adobe has released two new full version upgrades in its Flash Media Server line: Flash Media Streaming Server 3 and Flash Media Interactive Server 3.
Cecilia Cole, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) program manager, announced today on Microsoft's WSUS team blog that the service will force-push out Internet Explorer 7 to organizations with WSUS set to auto-approve updates.
Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2008
Daum Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Celrun Co. said Tuesday they were setting up a joint venture to offer Internet protocol television services in South Korea.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
After seven months as chief executive, Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang has concluded hundreds of employees will have to be fired to help the slumping Internet icon recover from years of misguided management.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/22/2008
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
Plus: SonicWALL exposes VPN; Microsoft kills 'kill switch'; ESPN sports bad code; more.
Browser-based attacks, bot vector incursions, targeted phishing, mobile hacking and insider espionage rank as top five security menaces for 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2008
Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2008
European Union regulators investigating whether Microsoft is using monopoly powers to squeeze out competing Internet browsers and software rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/14/2008
A flock of new-age tech powers -- Amazon.com, Google, eBay, Facebook -- want your developers to target their pieces of "the Cloud."
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/10/2008
Microsoft bids $1.2 billion for Norwegian search company to shore up search technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/09/2008
Microsoft, which has said for months that it fields the best enterprise search, is spending another billion to bolster that claim.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/08/2008
Data security becomes an even bigger concern when users go mobile. Here are some ways to keep your mobile data safe.
- By Joern Wettern
- 01/01/2008