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
Microsoft said it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Microsoft last week added another to a running tally of Office zero-day exploits that currently includes four known Word attacks.The software giant confirmed that it was investigating reports of a new round of "very limited" Excel zero-day attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in Office 2000, Office 2002 (XP), Office 2003 and Office 2004 Mac Edition.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/06/2007
Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Two former midlevel executives at America Online were acquitted Tuesday on all counts of charges that they conspired with a now-defunct Las Vegas software firm to inflate its revenue with secret side deals and backdated contracts.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007