An eight-core AMD FX CPU achieved a Guinness World Record by hitting 8.429 GHz in an extreme overclocking test.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 09/13/2011
PC shipments for the last quarter were lower than expected, according to market researcher group IDC.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/12/2011
Worldwide access to the Internet will hit 40 percent by 2015, with the manner in which it is accessed shifting drastically, particularly in the United States.
A new version of the HTC Titan and two phones from Samsung were reveled today by AT&T as its first wave ow Windows Phone 7 "Mango" smartphones.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2011
Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 hit the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone last week, with a projected wide release date set for sometime in October.
Microsoft reported that a DNS error caused Thursday night's outage Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, SkyDrive and other Microsoft Live services.
Microsoft announced yesterday a new startup procedure for Windows 8 which it says will lead to 30 to 70 percent faster boot speeds compared to Windows 7.
This looks to be a lighter patch month, with no "critical" items making it into in September's Microsoft Security Bulletin.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2011
Microsoft today announced a Dynamics AX 2012 ERP incentive program during its virtual launch headlined by CEO Steve Ballmer and Business Solutions President Kirill Tatarinov.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2011
Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella said his department's focus is for enterprises to adopt multiple Microsoft technologies that will provide a hybrid public/private cloud solution.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has advanced its nascent public cloud service by rolling out a private beta preview.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2011
Sony appointed a former Microsoft executive, Philip Reitinger, to a new position overseeing infrastructure security efforts.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was removed from her position by the company's board of directors, according to a Tuesday announcement by the company.
Microsoft announced today that its Hyper-V hypervisor will be part of Windows 8, its still-under-wraps client operating system.
Published e-mails indicate that Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to split its webOS business into two divisions of the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/06/2011
Microsoft plans to begin serving up a new version of its Windows Intune management service for PCs on Oct. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2011
Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have revoked all digital certificates from Dutch certificate authority firm DigiNotar as a security measure.
Microsoft on Thursday issued a beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012.
HTC showed off two devices running Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/01/2011
Microsoft this week announced an roadmap shift to ODBC for SQL Server APIs.