The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
European Union officials warned Microsoft not to shut out rivals in the security software market.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is "absurd."
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
Users who have wanted to save Microsoft Office documents in Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) were frustrated earlier this year when Redmond announced it would not include the capability as a native function in Office 2007 as it had previously announced.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/12/2006
Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn took the fall Tuesday after admitting she authorized an investigation that relied on "inappropriate techniques" to uncover who was leaking boardroom secrets to the media.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2006
Microsoft Corp. plans to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo and Google.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/11/2006
ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006, according to Scott Guthrie, general manager, Microsoft Developer Division.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/11/2006
Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/11/2006
Dell Inc. has delayed filing its fiscal second-quarter financial report and suspended its share repurchase program because of an ongoing federal accounting probe. It was the latest in a series of setbacks for the world's largest PC maker
- By The Associated Press
- 09/11/2006
As expected, Microsoft released three patches today to fix one critical Office vulnerability as well as two Windows flaws.
When Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini announced an exhaustive review of the company's unprofitable divisions in April, rumors began swirling about scorched-earth job cuts to reverse sinking profits.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/07/2006
Microsoft Corp. today issued a security advisory telling customers it is "investigating" reports of new zero-day code aimed at Microsoft Word 2000.
Microsoft is rebranding its Retail Management System to become another
offering in its line of Microsoft Dynamics business products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/07/2006
As expected, Microsoft has widened the availability of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to users who participated in the Vista Beta 2 testing program last spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/07/2006
A San Diego man was so upset that the University of Southern California did not admit him as a student that he hacked into the school's application system and stole other would-be students' personal information, he admitted in court.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/06/2006
Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated this week a single client agent providing interoperability between the software giant's coming Network Access Protection (NAP) and the networking behemoth's Network Admission Control (NAC) protocols.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2006
Brian Valentine, a fixture in Microsoft's management team for nearly 20 years, has left the company to join Amazon.com.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/06/2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/06/2006
Microsoft has changed the requirements for its MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer title, no longer requiring passage of three exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/06/2006
Sun Microsystems and Unisys have filed a lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor in the United States, apparently seeking damages related to a federal probe into price-fixing of memory chips.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/05/2006