After six months of unprecedented hype, thousands of people Friday will get their hands on the iPhone, the new cell phone that Apple Inc. is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2007
Microsoft is naming Kirill Tatarinov as its top business solutions executive, according to documents examined by RCP.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 06/29/2007
Employees who work in Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) can breathe easy: they don't have the worst job in science. Just the sixth worst.
Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations coming in 2008.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
A new August offering by virtual lab maker Surgient will add support for two key enterprise virtualization products: VMware ESX Server 3 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
Microsoft will extend the current hardware incentive-based iteration of its Buy Local promotion for U.S. System Builders through the back-to-school season, a company executive said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2007
A Microsoft employee who is also an ex-Google employee gave some insight into working conditions at his old job, including the perhaps surprising to some fact that Microsoft is a better place to work.
A Microsoft executive this week confirmed that Microsoft is close to offering a first step to help remedy the problem of Vista "downgrade rights," which posed complications for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2007
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. will sell "affordable" Windows computers aimed at students in India.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
Earlier this week, Microsoft put exam 70-621 up for general availability.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/28/2007
The CTP release makes it appear increasingly likely that the successor to Windows Server 2003 will be shipped early next year.
Consumer search giant Google is entering a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc. to distribute the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, according to a Google blog entry on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/27/2007
MuleSource Inc. has started a Partner Alliance Program based on Mule, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The program enables qualified channel partners to gain access to the Mule customer base.
Two Microsoft partners closed deals to join Microsoft or to sell their intellectual property to the software giant.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2007
The Microsoft-Google spitting match over desktop search is getting wetter every day, with Google now claiming that Microsoft's remedies don't go far enough, and Microsoft arguing that Google has a bad case of sour grapes.
Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent as the business software maker harvested more sales from the crop of customers picked up in a $25 billion shopping spree that has buried much of its competition.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2007
Terracotta has bolstered its clustering infrastructure software for Java applications. The company issued an announcement that its Terracotta 2.4 solution, released in May of this year, now supports IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (CE), which is an open source enterprise server solution.
CompTIA has launched a new Customer Service Excellence Program (CSEP) for companies with more than 100 IT service representatives.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2007
Updates announced at the show included the names for the next versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio and new details about the next releases of Windows Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2007