Microsoft's forthcoming cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content, known until now as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), has an official name: "Silverlight."
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/16/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/16/2007
Toshiba Corp. -- known among consumers for its televisions, laptops and DVD players -- will begin selling portable hard drive products as well, becoming the latest company seeking to capitalize on people's expanding collections of digital data.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/16/2007
Redmond this week was alerted to a spate of new security flaws in its vulnerability-ridden Word -- only this time, the victim is Microsoft's brand-new Word 2007 application.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/13/2007
Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
Apple Inc. said it won't be shipping its next-generation operating system in June as planned, saying it had to divert resources from the project so that it could launch its highly anticipated iPhone on time.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
For at least 17 months, someone had free rein inside TJX Cos.' computers. Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and transmit account data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
The boards of both companies have approved the takeover, which is expected to close by the end of the year.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft published a new security advisory warning of a new spate of attacks targeting a DNS vulnerability in its Windows server operating systems.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/13/2007
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
The latest version of Opera's Web browser lets visitors see mini versions of their nine favorite sites at a glance. Click on any thumbnail to load the full site.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
Vonage CEO Michael Snyder resigned Thursday as the troubled Internet phone company reported weak preliminary first-quarter results and announced a restructuring plan that includes an unspecified number of jobs cuts.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company, an executive said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/12/2007
Several Microsoft virtualization products are seeing their shipping dates slip.
IBM has found a way to connect chips inside products ranging from cell phones to supercomputers, an advance that promises to prolong battery life in wireless devices and eventually speed data transfers between the processor and memory chips in computers, the company said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
Microsoft has released a public hotfix patch to address a number of ASP.NET 2.0 compilation issues, according to Microsoft Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie.
The legal trouble threatening Vonage Holdings Corp. doesn't yet appear to be rippling across the Internet phone industry, a stark contrast to last year's BlackBerry patent dispute that spooked existing and would-be users of the popular e-mail device.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. said Tuesday they expect no disruptions to consumers as the wireless industry heavyweights try to settle differences over licensing fees.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/11/2007