U.S. magistrate strikes down many of SCO Group's claims against IBM, saying SCO failed to show intellectual property was misappropriated when IBM donated code to Linux operating system project.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/30/2006
Microsoft's sponsorship of technology contests and its partnerships with university research centers hopes to bear altruistic benefits, as well as loyalty to company's products.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2006
Microsoft Corp. is cutting 148 total U.S. sales jobs, as part of efforts to be more efficient, the company said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2006
Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it has, at least slightly, delayed delivery of Office 2007, primarily for performance issues.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/29/2006
Microsoft quietly began shipping Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 on Thursday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/29/2006
The Bush administration's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000 under a two-year agreement with the university that employs him and also does extensive business with the federal office he manages.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Dell seeks to expand in the lucrative business of maintaining other companies' computers, plans to launch a new service plan that uses Google mapping technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Computer Associates will ship in August a new database for storing configuration management information for its CA Service Management Accelerator product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2006
IBM is readying a major update to its Lotus Sametime collaboration software that the company says will include ties into Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Outlook.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2006
Allison Watson, the former vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner and Small Business Group, has been promoted to corporate vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, according to information posted on the Microsoft Web site on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2006
Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised -- a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
An alliance of businesses, colleges and federal crime fighters will combine their expertise at a new research center that will study the problems of identity theft and fraud.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Police in Britain and Finland have arrested three men suspected of conspiring to spread computer viruses through spamming, Metropolitan Police said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Microsoft Corp. has launched an online preview of its new Office business software, as part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Intel Corp. introduced its latest microprocessor for server computers Monday, one of a trio of new chips the world's biggest semiconductor maker is counting on to regain market share lost to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Microsoft quietly announced Friday that its long-promised next-generation universal file system is either dead or just emerging from its pupa to take wing as a butterfly.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/27/2006
A Long Island politician has dropped a federal lawsuit that had claimed the search engine company Google Inc. profits from child pornography.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Say goodbye soon to those pop-up ads from Claria Corp.'s oft-vilified ad-targeting technology. On July 1, Claria will stop running ads generated by its pioneering but highly criticized "adware" programs that monitor where people surf.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division,
and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006