Guidance Software Inc. said Thursday it's settled Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from a 2005 security failure that allowed hackers to access the credit card information of thousands of customers.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/17/2006
Plus, VMworld debuts new products from Chip PC, Symantec and others.
Microsoft execs aren't exactly shouting, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates character did in the '60s TV series, "Rawhide," but their long drive to bring Windows Server "Longhorn" to market continues.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2006
Tired of waiting for Windows Vista? Got an MSDN Premium subscription? Well, there you go.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2006
A former Source Media Inc. executive was charged with hacking into the company's computer system three years after he was dismissed, and tipping off employees whose jobs were in jeopardy, prosecutors said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/16/2006
Shares of Dell Inc. fell Thursday after the company delayed its third-quarter earnings report and said federal regulators had begun a formal investigation into the computer company
- By The Associated Press
- 11/16/2006
Microsoft Corp. said it will partner with MetroFi Inc. to build a free wireless Internet service for Oregon's largest city.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft follows product releases with new-generation certifications that focus more on job skills.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/15/2006
Right on the heels of the releases of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to manufacturing, Microsoft has released some details on its new-generation tracks for those software releases.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft made several milestone announcements regarding its database products Wednesday at its SQL PASS conference in Seattle.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2006
EU says Microsoft still short of supplying data to comply with 2004 order.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates told shareholders Tuesday that Windows Vista could be the company's biggest product launch since Windows 95 debuted more than a decade ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft has formed a cross-industry group of software and hardware vendors aimed at enhancing interoperability with its software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2006
Launch might exceed Windows XP expectations, says Redmond chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
Microsoft launched the beta test of its new Forefront Client Security product that aims to help protect business desktops, laptops and server operating systems from viruses, spyware and other threats at its IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
Eighty-six percent of IT decision makers say they plan to adopt Windows Vista, and 20 percent say they will move to the new operating system within the next year, according to a new tracking poll sponsored by CDW Corp.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
As expected, Microsoft today issued six patches for a variety of security issues, including an XML vulnerability considered to be "zero day."
Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has quietly discontinued a money-losing line of low-cost PCs aimed at helping customers in developing countries get access to the Internet, according to a regulatory filing.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched the world's first "quad-core" processors, a new line of chips that feature four computing brains and improved performance over previous models with just one or two processing cores.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
No matter whether Nintendo Co., Microsoft Corp. or Sony Corp. wins the video game console war, there already is one huge victor: IBM Corp., which designed and makes the microprocessors for all three units.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006