A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security identification numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
Microsoft announced this week it has teamed up with nonprofit licensing organization Creative Commons to provide users with a copyright licensing tool that works in the Office productivity applications suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/22/2006
Lost in the hubbub last week over the pending retirement of Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft quietly changed the name of a key set of technologies coming with Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/21/2006
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Martin Taylor, who was a key lieutenant of CEO Steve Ballmer’s and who was at the center of some of Microsoft’s most high-profile efforts, has left the company suddenly.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2006
Georgia Tech and IBM Corp. announced Tuesday they shattered a microchip speed record in a development that could lead to advances in cell phones, radar technology and space exploration.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/21/2006
Ohio University said Tuesday it has suspended two information technology supervisors over recent breaches by hackers who may have stolen 173,000 Social Security numbers from school computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/21/2006
The major Web browsers are getting facelifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/20/2006
At the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2006 in Pittsburgh this week, Microsoft announced it is shipping the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its Windows-based robotics development platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/20/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s latest instant messaging program is ready for prime time, the company said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/20/2006
Adesso Systems has delivered a beta version of an integrated development environment that allows programmers to create and deploy applications that inherently have distributed and mobile capabilities.
As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/19/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s latest instant messaging program is ready for prime time, the company said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/19/2006
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/19/2006
From the business wires this week: mobile SQL Server monitor/manager, storage management solution, and Bill Gates' new role at Microsoft.
Bill Gates says he is going to cut the umbilical and let Microsoft take its own course -- beginning two years from now. Though momentous news, nobody really seemed surprised.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 06/16/2006
Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder, largest stockholder and chairman, announced on Thursday he plans to retire in July 2008. He passed his responsibilities and job title of chief software architect effective immediately to Ray Ozzie who was, until now, one of three chief technical officers.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 06/15/2006
Compuware will begin shipping an updated development tool next week that aims to help application development groups produce better code and achieve higher productivity, the company announced at Microsoft’s TechEd 2006 conference in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2006
In yet another sign that Microsoft clearly understands its products still need to integrate better with others' -- even fierce competitors' -- applications, the company announced this week that it has formed a council on interoperability with members drawn from among its biggest customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2006
Two third-party firms showcased new development tools designed to work with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System at the company's annual TechEd conference being held this week in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/14/2006
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday unveiled a line of servers that the company claims will reduce by half the cost of maintaining corporate data centers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/14/2006