Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers, nearly three years after the online search leader shook up the Internet by offering users an unprecedented amount of free storage and displaying ads based on the content of the correspondence.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
Microsoft announced this week it is shipping the public beta for its forthcoming Forefront Server Security Management Console. The announcement came at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
Apple Inc. indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if the world's major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as the industry's security blanket.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
Microsoft Security Response Center plans to publish 12 security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/08/2007
VeriSign Inc., which manages the ".com" and ".net" domain names registry and ensures Internet users can reach those locations, said it will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
Robert Metcalf, inventor of Ethernet, among honorees.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
Sun Microsystems Wednesday took the wraps off of its OpenDocument Format, or ODF, add-in for saving Microsoft Office 2003 documents in the emerging open standard's file format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2007
New Windows 2003 Web Hosting exam now available, as well as new certification track aimed at hosting providers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/07/2007
Sun Microsystems Inc., which turned a rare profit last quarter, is on track to reach its previously stated goal of a 4 percent operating profit margin by the end of the fiscal year, the company's chief financial officer said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
Microsoft is preparing a spring release for an identity management infrastructure tool aimed at simplifying credential administration across the enterprise, officials said this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2007
VeriSign will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
Cisco Systems Inc.'s second-quarter profit surged nearly 40 percent as the world's largest maker of networking gear benefited from equipment upgrades to support bandwidth-hogging video downloads.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
Microsoft Corp., responding to a plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Tuesday it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system might well be Redmond's most secure client operating environment to date, but that doesn't -- and couldn't -- mean Vista is completely unassailable.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/07/2007
Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers after nearly three years of beta testing.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
Microsoft quietly announced last week that it is making several key communications protocols used by its software available for license, so that third-parties, including competitors, can link into its newest enterprise products. Some are available immediately
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2007
On February 2, Microsoft released the February CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a cross-platform browser plug-in that allows clients to display and play back rich media, 3D and vector graphics, animation, audio and video.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/06/2007
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to intervene in the case of a Russian school principal facing a prison term for buying pirated Windows software for his students, according to a statement.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
The Federal Trade Commission finalized its ruling that Rambus Inc. violated antitrust laws, imposing limits on the royalties the memory chip designer can charge.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007