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
Sun Microsystems unveiled the next generation of the core implementation of its Java platform this week.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/11/2006
Seapine Software specializes in tools that let corporate developers automate, manage and streamline oft-overlooked development tasks like software testing and configuration management. In November, the company rolled out updated versions of two products: the TestTrack Pro 7.6 workflow and issue management solution and Surround SCM 5 software configuration management tool. In addition, the company unveiled TestTrack TCM, a new tool for test case planning and tracking.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/11/2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
Microsoft will sell 90 million copies of Windows Vista in calendar 2007 – 35 million of those in the U.S. alone – according to a new economic study by IDC.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/11/2006
Now that the company's past the pretexting scandal, company returns to work on last year's plan to cut 14,500 jobs and overhaul its retirement packages.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach -- yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
Plus, what your mobile PC says about you, and new products from TransMedia, Orb Networks and more.
As Windows Vista becomes more secure against known threats, it's what hackers and cybercriminals devise in the next generation of attacks that keeps Microsoft on its toes.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/10/2006