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
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
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
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
Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2006
Japan's trade watchdog is investigating Sharp, NEC, South Korea's LG.Philips LCD and other liquid crystal display manufacturers for allegedly agreeing to cut output to curb falls in panel prices, officials said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. still has more cost-cutting ahead, even after a massive restructuring that has sliced the work force by 10 percent, Chief Executive Mark Hurd told analysts Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Last month Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans open-source community trumpeted the general availability of the NetBeans 5.5 IDE.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/12/2006
Payless ShoeSource, Burlington Coat Factory pay up for using unlicensed software.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/12/2006
Exam discounts are back and "second-shot" offer returns in a new form, dubbed "Exam Insurance."
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/12/2006