Multimedia stockpilers need not worry about laptops, digital video recorders or portable music players hitting a storage capacity ceiling any time soon.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/15/2007
Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.
Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.
In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/12/2007
Pouncing on an opportunity to add another weapon in an increasingly bitter business software battle, Oracle Corp. has offered to buy struggling rival BEA Systems Inc. for $6.7 billion in its latest shot aimed at another industry leader, SAP AG.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
Recently discovered security hole in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 uses Internet Explorer (IE) 7 as the attack vector; fix is coming.
Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co., has signed on as a contributor with Fox News' soon-to-launch business news channel, the media company announced Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2007
Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/09/2007
On Friday, we presented the first installment of the "Top 10 Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008." Today is part two. These are technologies included in Windows 2008 that you may not have heard much about, but could make your life as a Windows IT pro a lot easier.
Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2007
Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
Microsoft expects to release seven security patches with four "Critical" and three "Important" bulletins as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/04/2007
Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Microsoft Corp. kept its options open Tuesday on whether it will appeal a landmark antitrust ruling and record $613 million fine imposed by European competition authorities that an EU court upheld last month.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/03/2007