Just before Google Inc. went public nearly three years ago, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel assured a roomful of securities analysts and money managers that his company would remain the Internet's brightest star. To punctuate his high hopes, Frank Sinatra's "The Best Is Yet to Come" played in the background.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/11/2007
Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/09/2007
Dell Inc. will sell a notebook computer model at Sam's Club warehouse stores beginning next week, a company spokesman said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/08/2007
Developers can now take a first hand look at Microsoft’s next major upgrade of its flagship database platform. The company this week released the first CTP of SQL Server 2008, until now known as Katmai.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/08/2007
A tool for determining whether or not computers can handle the Windows Vista operating system has been updated, with some useful new features.
The next "Patch Tuesday" will also be "Upgrade Tuesday" for admins, as Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) through Automatic Updates.
New standard provides better support for e-commerce and enterprise security.
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/07/2007
The company develops MCA title for DBAs who want to showcase their database architecting skills.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/07/2007
It rains a lot in Portland. So on days when the sun's rays make it all the way to the ground, who wouldn't want to take the city's new free Wi-Fi service for a spin?
- By The Associated Press
- 06/07/2007
Microsoft continues to push forward its program granting amnesty to potential patent violators, this time inking South Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) to a deal.
Altiris has updated its virtualization software to work with Windows Vista. Symantec, which recently acquired Altiris, announced at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando the release of the latest version -- 2.1 -- of its Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS).
Want to toy around with Windows Vista or Vista with Visual Studio 2005 but not pay for them? Microsoft is making it possible through the magic of virtualization.
Apache and IIS are equally at fault for pumping malware into the wild, according to a new study.
American technology companies will lose highly skilled foreign workers to Indian and Chinese rivals if the country's work-visa program is not fixed, a Google executive warned Congress on Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/06/2007
Online software pioneer Salesforce.com Inc. will help Internet search leader Google Inc. sell ads as part of a partnership that falls short of Wall Street's anticipation since word of the alliance leaked last month.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/05/2007
Microsoft is readying a beta of a new SKU of its next generation of Visual Studio, intended for those who want to embed it into their own tools.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/05/2007
Just when you thought it was safe to start planning your summer vacation, Cisco
Systems Inc. recently alerted customers to a spate of new vulnerabilities in
its Internetwork Operating System (IOS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/05/2007
An investigation of IBM Corp. by the Securities and Exchange Commission ended Tuesday without penalty, although the government found that the technology company misled analysts about employee stock-option expenses in 2005.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/05/2007
Microsoft this week released a preview of a new software development kit for use with the Open XML standards native to Office 2007.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 06/05/2007