Google's cash cow search engine -- Google Search -- continued to pull ahead of all competitors in usage growth in the U.S. during January, and managed a whopping 40.6 percent year over year growth rate, according to two recent surveys.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s sixth-largest shareholder said Wednesday it opposes a proposal floated in the wake of the company's boardroom spying scandal that would allow shareholders to nominate candidates for the company's board of directors.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
Computer maker Lenovo Inc. on Thursday recalled about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries used in ThinkPad laptops after receiving four reports of the Sanyo-built batteries overheating.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
Analysts wonder how choppy the waters will be.
- By Scott Bekker and Ed Scannell
- 03/01/2007
Ray Ozzie says Microsoft will answer with plans that more than mimic its rivals successes.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Four California men were arrested in what police said was a scheme to switch checkout-lane credit card readers at Stop & Shop supermarkets as a way to steal customers' numbers and passwords.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Massachusetts man is alleged to have defrauded Cisco of millions through a scheme involving orders of 'defective' hardware.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Microsoft announced it is shipping the latest preview of its upcoming Visual FoxPro "Sedna" project.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/28/2007
Microsoft says it is wrapping up the beta test code for its first service pack for Exchange Server 2007, and plans to begin testing the update in April.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
McAfee Inc.'s former top lawyer was charged Tuesday with stock options tampering that muddied the finances of the computer security software maker.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Intel Corp. plans to spend between $1 billion and $1.5 billion to overhaul its semiconductor production facility in New Mexico to manufacture computer chips with next-generation technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/27/2007
Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/27/2007
Microsoft Corp. put its hat further into the healthcare ring by launching its Microsoft Developer Network Healthcare Industry Center.
Apple Inc. has delayed until March the launch of its gadget for streaming video and other content from computers to TVs, but the company would not explain why. The company had said in January the $299 Apple TV set-top box would be available this month.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/27/2007
Microsoft Monday announced its intent to buy out Medstory Inc., a privately held company that develops intelligent Web search technologies for health information.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/27/2007
Microsoft announced Monday the formation of what it's dubbed the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, or BPA, an organization created to boost deployment and use of business process management tools with a focus on an emerging standard in that area.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/27/2007
Alleged thieves try to replace credit card readers to steal customer information.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/27/2007
As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/26/2007
Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.5 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/26/2007