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
A blogger who sold stock picks to thousands of subscribers has been detained in northern China, as regulators try to reign in freelance operators amid a booming stock market.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007
Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007
Yahoo Inc. took control of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. on Thursday, giving the slumping Internet portal a head start on rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a heated race to build more powerful marketing vehicles.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007
A news site that has allowed its users to write and submit their own articles is shutting down, citing unspecified "business issues."
- By The Associated Press
- 07/12/2007
The next version of Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft's home and small-business security product, has been released for a live public beta.
Microsoft on Thursday released an add-on to the previously released CTP of Astoria, a nascent project based around the way data is consumed and exposed on the Web.
Microsoft has jumped with both feet into the software plus services end of the pool, announcing the unveiling at its Worldwide Partner Conference this week of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM.
A stolen computer storage device contained more than twice the number of taxpayers' identifications than had been previously reported, Gov. Ted Strickland said Wednesday, but he emphasized there is still no indication the data have been compromised.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/12/2007
Astadia, a business solutions consultant with expertise in software-as-a-service (SaaS), and Pervasive Software have formed a partnership. Under the deal, Astadia plans to use Pervasive's data integration technology for customers moving to Salsesforce.com's SaaS-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/11/2007
Openbravo, a Pamplona, Spain-based provider of open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium-size businesses, is seeking partners around the globe. The company, which was founded in 2001 under the name "Tecnicia," launched its "Pioneers" program today to establish international partnerships.
Averting a looming court battle over how it has been handling the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/11/2007
Next year, Prometric will be sole company to deliver exam services officially for Microsoft.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/11/2007
Meeting past promises, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/11/2007
Microsoft plans to sink more money into Forefront, its comprehensive suite of tools for desktop, server and remote security, and its security partners stand to benefit -- perhaps substantially.