The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's business practices, an announcement by the company acknowledged today.
The FBI this week announced the arrest of two people suspected of being involved in a "scareware" scheme that extorted $74 million from about one million computer users over the last three years.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/24/2011
The state governor's office announced this week that Wyoming is the first state to "go Google."
Google on Monday announced the availability of a test version of its Google Chrome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer that installs without requiring administrative privileges.
Microsoft plans to change its Windows Azure pricing next month, offering free inbound data transfers during peak hours, in addition to off hours.
An outage affected Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange messaging service, which went down on Wednesday across North America.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
Simon Crosby blogged that he's joining two other founders at Bromium; company will focus on security and virtualization solutions.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
Microsoft's new president of the Server and Tools Business Division answered some cloud questions today at the GigaOM Structure event, which is happening today and tomorrow in San Francisco.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced what President Rod Beckstrom called "one of the biggest changes ever to the Domain Name System" at the opening of its 41st annual meeting, being held in Singapore.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2011
Microsoft upgraded its free consumer-oriented Windows Live SkyDrive personal cloud storage and file-sharing service on Monday.
According to a newly released forecast by IDC, the IT segment is projected to grow its spending in public cloud services by a compound annual growth rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years.
Microsoft released a beta of System Center Orchestrator 2012 last week.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission indicated on Friday that Microsoft received U.S. governmental approval to buy Skype, estimated at $8.5 billion.
In an team up to attack government Web Sites, hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous announced their intent to steal classified information and are encouraging others to follow in their footsteps.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/20/2011
The use of Windows 7 at companies has more than doubled over the past year, but that hasn't meant correspondingly good news for Microsoft's sliding Internet Explorer browser market share, according to a study published this month by Forrester Research.
Microsoft this week announced the availability of a release candidate (RC) version of its Windows Phone 7 Connector for remotely managing and accessing Windows home and small business servers.
Microsoft this week renamed its Mobile Communications Business (MCB) unit, calling it the "Windows Phone Division."
Microsoft today pronounced World IPv6 Day to be a "success," reporting no incidents after enabling IPv6 access on some of its Web sites.
In honor of the tech company's centennial birthday, there will be no links having to do with IBM in this week's edition.
The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor device.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/16/2011