The state will likely drop criminal charges against an investigator in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal because he already pleaded guilty to similar crimes in federal court.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/18/2007
Spammers have tweaked legitimate e-mail and sent them through normal spam channels.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/18/2007
Hewlett-Packard Co. extended its lead over Dell Inc. in the worldwide personal-computer market in the fourth quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/18/2007
Six months after announcing a telecommunications alliance, Microsoft and Nortel this week presented some early results of their efforts and outlined a roadmap for future projects.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/18/2007
Microsoft expected to put another Vista exam in front of beta testers next week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/18/2007
Apple Inc. on Wednesday posted a record profit in its fiscal first quarter, beating Wall Street estimates as earnings rose 78 percent amid strong holiday sales of its iPod music players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/18/2007
Intel's Q4 profit plunged 39 percent, reversing a painful price war with much-smaller rival AMD.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/17/2007
Electronics makers on Wednesday urged Germany to press ahead with cutting copyright fees levied on consumer devices such as computers, printers and scanners.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/17/2007
Don Ferguson, whom some observers refer to as the "Father of WebSphere," has joined Redmond as a Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy in the Office of the CTO, according to statements posted online.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2007
It's official. Well, sort of. Windows enthusiast site ActiveWin.com reported this week that an unnamed Microsoft official has confirmed the final name for "Longhorn" server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2007
Microsoft and NCR’s Teradata division announced Monday an alliance meant to optimize interoperability between Microsoft’s business intelligence solutions and Teradata’s Enterprise Data Warehouse product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/16/2007
Microsoft recently announced that, as of January 8, 100 million users have installed Internet Explorer 7.0.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/16/2007
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider an appeal brought by a group of IBM Corp. employees who accused the company of age discrimination when it altered its pension plan. The lawsuit could have cost the company $1.4 billion.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2007
The United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the U.N. telecommunications agency said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
Federal prosecutors scored their first victory in the investigation of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ill-fated boardroom spying probe Friday, when a low-level private investigator pleaded guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
The Web site of Belgium's Defense Ministry was hacked Sunday by a group of Turkish nationalists, news reports said.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell more than 9.5 percent Friday, a day after the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker said plunging computer-chip prices hacked into the company's fourth-quarter results.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
Synnex Corp., a global IT supply chain services company, reported financial results for fiscal 2006 this month that included 12.5 percent revenue growth and 29.7 percent growth in net income from continuing operations.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/15/2007
Federal investigators are still examining whether any of the accounting shenanigans at Apple Inc. rose to the level of criminal behavior, even though the company has cleared CEO Steve Jobs and all current executives of any wrongdoing in an internal stock options backdating probe, according to a person close to the matter.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
So far, when it comes to making money, the online video explosion is mostly about potential. Studios selling TV shows and movies for download, and Web sites like YouTube that link ads to user-generated content, stand to reap billions from the Internet's hottest trend.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007