Apple Inc. updated its iMac computers Tuesday with a slimmer design, faster chips and glossy screens, hoping to further propel sales that already outpace the rest of the PC industry.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/07/2007
Microsoft's Web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), continues to gain against longtime leader Apache, and could end up surpassing it if current trends continue.
Microsoft has released the first CTP of Visual Studio Team System "Rosario."
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/06/2007
Terrorists and other criminals could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure like oil refineries, power plants and factories, a researcher said Saturday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/06/2007
VMware has the latest entry in the growing market for software that allows Windows to be run on a Mac.
AJAX-era security requires tossing out a lot of what you thought you knew about security, starting with Same Origin Policy.
Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
Anticipated improvements to the way polices are set up and managed in one or more instances did not make it into the second CTP of SQL Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/03/2007
Microsoft Corp. will test a free, advertising-supported version of Works, an already inexpensive package of word processing, spreadsheet and other programs, but would not say whether it is exploring a similar Web-based suite.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
Billionaire Carlos Slim said he doesn't care if he is the world's richest man and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
The next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac platform has been delayed until next year.
SourceLabs is offering the latest version of its open source Java stack for enterprises. The company's SASH 2 software suite lets companies escape being locked into proprietary solutions by combining the popular Spring, Axis, Struts and Hibernate open source solutions. The stack works with Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic servers.
It's a service-oriented architecture (SOA) world -- well, not quite for everyone yet. However, what happens when IT departments increasingly use SOA to expose data and applications as services? The next step might be to begin collecting and using those services to create something useful.
In a victory for Microsoft's open source efforts, Massachusetts has decided to accept Microsoft's Office file format as sufficiently open to allow it to compete with other office productivity suites.
Apple Inc. has issued a software patch to fix some security holes that independent security researchers recently discovered for the company's vaunted iPhone.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/02/2007
Forrester report says most users question the value of SA.
The state reverses its position on supporting Microsoft's document format.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
Company combines Live efforts into Live Platform Services.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 08/01/2007
Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. jumped more than 4 percent Tuesday, a day after the server and software maker posted its third profitable quarter in a row and showed it has made substantial progress from its long-lasting, brutal downturn.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/01/2007