Entrigue Systems will release Script Start, a Windows logon scripting tool, free of charge to open source developers in September. The aim is to spur custom development of Script Start -- something for which its users have been clamoring, according to Entrigue President Jon McDonald.
Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/16/2007
VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/15/2007
Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/15/2007
Those who suggest that Sun Microsystems' Project Indiana is about making the Solaris operating system more Linux-like are missing the point, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief OS platform strategist. Headlines such as "Sun Hopes for Linux-like Solaris" and "Sun OpenSolaris To Become More Linux-like," drive him crazy.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2007
The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/15/2007
Advanced Micro Devices yesterday published a proposed specification for a new class of hardware extensions designed to increase the performance of applications running in multicore environments.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2007
Citrix Systems is buying XenSource Inc. for $500 million, marking the second big deal this week in thte virtualization segment.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/15/2007
Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/14/2007
Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/14/2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/14/2007
The recently launched Oracle 11g database server is now shipping but today's release announcement came with a twist: Some of the new features come at an additional cost.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/14/2007
Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack.
Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys.
Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/13/2007
In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/13/2007
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that Sync, its in-car communication and entertainment system developed with Microsoft Corp., will cost $395 as an option when it debuts this fall on the Ford Focus, Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2007
By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. at a meeting in downtown Seattle Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007