Bill Hartnett got accustomed to the screaming. As Microsoft Corp.'s manager of software sales to financial services companies, Hartnett used to get pelted with complaints about the security and reliability of Microsoft's products.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
Unsolicited e-mails continue to plague Europeans and account for between 50 and 80 percent of all messages sent to mail inboxes, the European Commission said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
EU report says that 50-80 percent of all e-mails are junk e-mails, with much of it coming from outside the EU nations.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
Some of the largest companies in the United States are facing off in a Supreme Court case over gas pedals, with one side hoping the justices will put the brakes on an out-of-control patent system.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
A type of nanotechnology used in a wide range of consumer products to kill germs will be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a change in federal policy.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/26/2006
International Business Machines Corp. settled a federal class-action lawsuit Wednesday, agreeing to pay a total of $65 million to 32,000 technology workers who claimed the company illegally withheld overtime pay
- By The Associated Press
- 11/26/2006
New software line-up, including a SharePoint Server update, aimed at improving business processes.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/24/2006
EU in process of certifying whether documentation complies with anti-trust order.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/24/2006
Review of gas pedal patents by U.S. Supreme Court being watched closely by tech companies like Microsoft, others because of impact on software patent laws.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/24/2006
EU alleges that SWIFT violated data protection laws in transferring data to U.S. to aid in anti-terror investigations.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/23/2006
French telecommunications gear maker Alcatel SA said Tuesday it has sued Microsoft Corp. in a U.S. federal court for patent infringement.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/22/2006
There's a new way to send large movie, music and other files without worrying about whether the e-mail systems can handle large attachments.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/22/2006
It can greet people, show DVDs and hand out balloons. "Ubiko," a robot-on-wheels with a catlike face, is joining the crew of temporary workers that a Japanese job-referral company hopes will be used at stores, events and even weddings.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/22/2006
Microsoft is shipping the first release candidate or RC of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003, with final availability scheduled for the first quarter of 2007
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2006
The digital ink is hardly dry on Microsoft's peace agreement with Novell, but already the outlines of the deal are starting to blur.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/21/2006
For those who have been frequently frustrated in the past when new versions of Windows did not support their hardware, the times, they are a-changing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/21/2006
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