Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
A computer worm is attacking some business PCs through a flaw in antivirus software by Symantec Corp., a security company warned Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
UCLA breach latest among several universities to have student records hacked. Breach went undetected for more than a year, affects about 40,000 students.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/17/2006
Microsoft has released a service pack update for its flagship Visual Studio 2005 IDE that it says delivers "improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance for Visual Studio 2005."
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2006
Lawyers show videotape deposition of Bill Gates in class-action lawsuit against Microsoft.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/15/2006
Worm hits some systems using Norton Antivirus, even though company issued patch back in May.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/15/2006
IBM Corp., which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual property.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/14/2006
A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/14/2006
Microsoft said this week it has begun a private beta for its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, sending it out to 2,500 IT professionals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft announced it is shipping the released version 1 of its Microsoft Robotics Studio development environment for creating robotic software for a wide variety of hardware platforms.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft and HP announced Wednesday a three-year $300 million deal to collaborate in selling hardware, software and services to their joint customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
The congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard Co.'s boardroom spying probe has demanded that CEO Mark Hurd explain $1.37 million worth of options he exercised just before the scandal became public, two congressmen said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2006
Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett Packard Corp. on Wednesday afternoon announced a wide-ranging agreement that could cause shock waves among large, enterprise-focused consultants and service providers.
IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2006
Footwear retailer Payless ShoeSource Inc. and discount clothing chain Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay about $425,000 to settle claims they used unlicensed software
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2006
Demand for microchips that help laptops, video game consoles and other gadgets connect wirelessly to the Internet pushed higher in 2006, a trade group said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Windows Vista will spawn more than $70 billion in revenues for Microsoft partners and 100,000 new jobs in the United States in 2007, according to a Microsoft-sponsored study done by IDC analysts.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/12/2006