By now, the perils of securing online data with little more than user names and passwords should be well known. Monster.com learned that lesson late and the hard way, prompting this week's announcement that the Web jobs board will spend millions of dollars to improve its security.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/31/2007
Microsoft published almost no details earlier this week with its announcement that Windows Server 2008's release to manufacturing date had slipped.
Dell Inc. finally saw some positives in its second-quarter earnings report after a year of continuing misfires, but analysts believe it's too soon to tell if the computer maker can return to being an industry juggernaut.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/31/2007
A group of states led by California said in a court filing Thursday that ending oversight of Microsoft's business practices in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/30/2007
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it intends to buy Parlano, a Chicago-based company it has already worked closely with on enterprise communications software.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/30/2007
Although Microsoft didn't mention it in today's announcement about the upcoming release of Windows Vista SP1, the company confirmed today that one of the major changes will be to open up desktop search functionality to competition.
Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's delay-plagued next-generation server OS, is being delayed yet again.
Windows XP's first service pack in nearly four years should be pushed out the door some time around mid-2008, according to Microsoft.
A public beta will be available in a few weeks
Shares of EarthLink Inc. climbed more than 6 percent Tuesday after the Internet service provider said it would cut 900 jobs -- or about half its work force -- and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/28/2007
If there's one feature in Windows Vista that's almost universally reviled, it's User Account Control, or UAC. But help may be on the way in the form of BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5.
Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/27/2007
Microsoft Corp. will distribute free software to nonprofit groups to boost charity in India, a company official said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/27/2007
Outage unlikely to cause current users to give up on the Internet phone service and consider problems like these to be an acceptable inconvenience.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/24/2007
A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/24/2007
IBM, following the kickoff of its IBM Federal SOA Institute in April, has announced a new certification and training program.
Whether it involves choice or price, freedom isn't free. This is especially true in the realm of computer software licensing, where the question isn't if one has to pay for program use and development but rather how, to whom and when.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/24/2007
Vouchers for those who ordered back in June will finally get the voucher codes in September, when Windows Server 2008 transition exam goes into beta testing.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/23/2007
An organization that certifies computer software as consumer-friendly and noninvasive has suspended comScore Inc. and one of its programs used to track Internet usage.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2007
WSO2 has released two new open source products for developers of Web services applications. The company is currently offering its Web Services Framework for C (WSF/C) 1.0 product, as well as its Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) 1.0 product.