The first company to be convicted under Australia's tough anti-spamming laws was fined Friday 5.5 million Australian dollars for sending 280 million advertising e-mails.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/27/2006
Microsoft today acknowledged that one of two IE7 security flaws alleged by Denmark-based security firm Secunia could leave systems vulnerable.
Microsoft last Friday began shipping the beta test release of version 1 of ASP.NET AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), previously codenamed "Atlas."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/26/2006
Shares of Red Hat Inc. tumbled nearly 30 percent Thursday as investors abandoned the stock on news that software juggernaut Oracle Corp. will move more aggressively onto Red Hat's turf.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2006
Hoping to leave an even bigger imprint on the Internet, Google Inc. is opening up its vast online index so other Web sites can build their own specialty search engines.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2006
Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. beat Wall Street's tepid expectations Thursday, reporting a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter thanks to the growing popularity of its operating system for corporate computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2006
Microsoft began shipping the final code for version 1 of its Windows Defender free anti-spyware tool on Monday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/26/2006
Company quietly fixes screen freezing component flaw in several thousand machines used in Maryland.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2006
A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.
Counterpane co-founded by cryptologist Bruce Schneier
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2006
Microsoft announced this week that Beta 2 of its upcoming Certificate Lifecycle Manager, or CLM, is available for download. That puts the product on track to ship in final form during the first half of 2007, according to company officials
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/25/2006
The government has launched investigations into fraud cases in which computer hackers apparently manipulated client accounts at two of the nation's largest electronic brokerages, stealing millions of dollars.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., Sept. 6, 2006
As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista and Office 2007, the company is ramping up programs to help its partner independent software vendors (ISVs) sell their software and pull through Microsoft licenses in the process.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/24/2006
Less than a week after Microsoft shipped the long awaited Internet Explorer 7, it's Mozilla's turn. Final code for Firefox 2 officially became available for download on Tuesday afternoon.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/24/2006
Fresh leadership insights from Harvard Business School Press.
For IT shops that do not plan to immediately deploy Windows Vista or who have a lot of legacy XP machines, the wait for XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) just got a bit longer.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Microsoft speakers at the SMB Nation conference talk up forthcoming releases,
drawing a mixed response.
- By Rich Freeman
- 10/24/2006
Hacker who cracked DVD copy-protection technology now claims to have done the same with iPods, iTunes.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Hacking into client accounts being investigated by FBI; other brokerage houses also affected.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006