Dell, which has been expanding its distribution channels and offerings over the last several years, broadened its reach even further with the announcement that it's buying SilverBack Technologies.
Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit edged up 7 percent, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of defective Xbox 360 video game consoles.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Google Inc. is expanding a test program that lets online advertisers buy ad space in newspapers, as the publishing industry struggles to offset business that has moved to the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Exotechnic Corp., a business software provider based in London, is using CodeMesh's solution to convert .NET code into Java. The effort is associated with Exotechnic's classification solution for the financial industry, which is designed to help financial firms comply with a new European Union (EU) directive.
- By Lauren Y. Dresnick
- 07/19/2007
Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 44 percent on strong sales of microprocessors, but the company's shares fell amid signs that fierce competition continues to push chip prices lower.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Worldwide shipments of personal computers rose strongly in the second quarter due to growing demand in Asia and unexpected strength in the U.S., two research companies reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
There's growing confusion as to when Windows Vista SP1 is going to be released to the public, and even confusion about when it will be tested, and by whom.
Already on a tear lately, shares of International Business Machines Corp. got another bounce after the technology company reported a 12 percent jump in quarterly earnings and improved its outlook for the rest of the year.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Apple Inc.'s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Windows Home Server, Microsoft's first foray into what it hopes will be a lucrative market for consumer-oriented servers, has been released to manufacturing.
Microsoft, long stuck in third place behind Google and Yahoo in the search wars, suddenly boosted its share of the market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/18/2007
A one-year-old partnership between Microsoft and Nortel on unified communications technology, known as the Innovative Communications Alliance, is bearing fruit. The two companies announced this week that they have sold more than 430,000 joint-solutions licenses to date.
Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Sept. 17 the day Microsoft goes to court to challenge fines regulators imposed on company for anti-competitive business practices.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Microsoft suddenly boosted its share of the search market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Microsoft's partners got lauded last week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 event in Denver.
Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Tools vendor Infragistics today released NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 2, its latest set of presentation components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/16/2007
As Nicholas Negroponte stormed the developing world trying to drum up buyers for the innovative $175 computers designed by his One Laptop Per Child education nonprofit, he encountered a persistent obstacle: competition from Intel Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/16/2007
In just a couple of weeks, developers will be able to get their hands on the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft's new cross-platform browser media plug-in.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/16/2007