Hackers stole millions of credit card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. by intercepting wireless transfers of customer information from two Miami-area Marshalls stores, according to an eight-month investigation by the Canadian government.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/25/2007
Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15.
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued about $1.3 million for fiscal 2007, a year in which profit at the world's largest software maker topped $14 billion, according to documents filed Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to capture a bigger share of the booming market.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more, according to a report published Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
A European think tank is recommending to the European Commission that computers sold abroad come without any operating system pre-loaded.
The Distributed Management Task Force, an industry organization advocating the development of interoperable server management, has released Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware 2.0.
Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
European Union regulators will decide before November whether to clear Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion takeover bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick or study the issue further.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a stock-options backdating case against Apple's former general counsel, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/21/2007
Melding a hodgepodge of different software makers into a cohesive business is supposed to be difficult.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/21/2007
Although Microsoft had hoped to release a CTP of its newest database server every 60 days, the latest test release will slip, company officials acknowledged this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/21/2007
Internet search company Google Inc. has registered in-house lobbyists for the first time since establishing a Washington office in 2005.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/20/2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/19/2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/19/2007
The head of a leading security software vendor denounced the use of data files commonly used by Google Inc. and other Web sites to track user activity, saying such sites should seek permission ahead of time.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2007
Exam retake program provides opportunity for candidates to retake a failed exam; registration is required.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/19/2007