An industry report describes big changes for partners under a Software as a Service model, but nettlesome compensation issues still remain.
Microsoft is doing some reorganizing, including one of its largest and most profitable business units.
A computer disk containing personal information on thousands of Lucent employees and retirees has been missing for at least 10 days, Alcatel-Lucent said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/18/2007
After missing out on DoubleClick and other high-profile companies, Microsoft finally got its foot in the Internet advertising door by buying aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion in cash.
The machines are the first in South America from the much-publicized "One Laptop Per Child" project, which hopes to put low-cost portable PCs in the hands of children in developing countries.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/18/2007
WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest advertising and marketing conglomerate, is buying the online advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million, the companies announced Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
Microsoft is supporting a chief rival to its Office suite for approval to a national standards board.
Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect. Microsoft is part of a consortium of companies that designed the free Web resource to help women and minority entrepreneurs use the Internet and other technology to help grow their businesses.
Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week that the mid-cycle, R2 release of Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit only. Some have extrapolated that to mean that Windows Vista will be the final 32-bit desktop OS from Microsoft. Not so, according to a company blog.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday accused Dell Inc. and its financial services affiliate of "bait and switch" advertising and failing to deliver on promised customer service.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
Windows Server 2008 general availability is still months away, but Microsoft already has plans for a Windows Server 2008 R2 release in 2009.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/17/2007
The next generation of wireless Internet products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to hit shelves this summer, even though a final standard for the technology isn't due for another year, the industry group says.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
In its latest technological leap, online search leader Google Inc. will begin showing videos on its main results page Wednesday along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s second-quarter profit fell 7 percent despite a dramatic rise in sales of personal computers and servers, narrowly beating Wall Street's forecast.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
IBM Corp., one of the world's leading providers of encryption and other data-management technologies, is in the uncomfortable position of trying to solve its own mystery involving missing computer tapes with sensitive information about employees and records of customer transactions.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect.
Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2007
Bill Gates unveiled a system builder-focused version of the forthcoming Windows Home Server and detailed industry support for WHS.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/15/2007
Despite a tumultuous 15 months, Borland's developer tools subsidiary CodeGear is cranking out products. Spun off as a subsidiary in November, CodeGear expects to ship a major revision of its C++ Builder integrated development environment (IDE) next month. A commercial Ruby on Rails IDE for enterprise Web development is slated for the second half of this year. Both products were announced this week.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/15/2007