Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million laptop computer batteries came as embarrassing news to Sony, which supplied the problem batteries, but proved to be good news for rival Japanese electronics companies Sanyo and Matsushita, pushing the struggling company's shares higher Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/16/2006
Scant details available for two new exams for mobile and embedded device developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/16/2006
Microsoft hints at structure of Exchange Admin track of exams, currently in development phase.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/16/2006
Microsoft is shipping the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its next generation data access libraries for the .NET programming framework.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/16/2006
IBM executives Tuesday rolled out a roadmap for the company's investment in new open source areas beyond Linux, in a continuing but quiet assault on Microsoft's territory: the desktop.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/16/2006
World's biggest PC seller to replace 4.1 million notebook computer batteries made by Sony Corp. because they can burst into flames.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/15/2006
In a move clearly aimed at Microsoft, IBM announced it has ported its enterprise instant messaging client to run atop Linux on the desktop and plans to have a Linux server product out next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/15/2006
Microsoft has released the first beta test version of its coming entry into the realm of blog publishing tools based on a familiar theme: "What you see is what you get" or WYSIWYG.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/15/2006
Hoping to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to offer a consumer version of the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/14/2006
Hay and beans have fueled this rural economy for years. But it's fiber of another kind that city leaders believe is key to Powell's future.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/14/2006
CA Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter profit fell 64 percent on increased expenses, and the business software maker said it will trim its work force by about 10 percent, or 1,700 positions.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/14/2006
Google is issuing this warning to people who try to click on links to sites with spyware and other malicious code: "The site you are about to visit may harm your computer!"
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2006
A recent high-profile Microsoft hire, brought onboard to work on Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Windows Live vision, has suddenly announced his pending departure, citing a pullback on plans he had signed on to implement.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/10/2006
Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2006
As the competition for information management and control platforms heats up, IBM announced late this week that it will acquire content management vendor FileNet in a deal valued at $1.6 billion in cash.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/10/2006
Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. jumped nearly 12 percent in pre-market trading Wednesday, a day after the network-equipment maker reported a gain in fiscal fourth-quarter profit and issued a bullish outlook.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2006
Delta Air Lines Inc. asked a bankruptcy judge Tuesday to let the nation's third-largest carrier use IBM Corp. rather than its own employees to maintain its computer systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2006
Despite calls by some beta testers for Microsoft to release a third beta of Windows Vista, the company appears to be instead readying to push its first golden code candidate out the door.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/09/2006
Microsoft this week announced that it will discontinue work on future versions of Virtual PC for the Mac.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/09/2006
Apple Computer Inc. completed its switch to Intel Corp. microprocessors and previewed its next-generation operating system Monday, shifting attention -- for the moment -- from the company's troubles surrounding the mishandling of stock options.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/08/2006