Microsoft has agreed to license infoUSA's business listings database to beef up the software company's online local search offerings.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2006
Two New York teenagers were in police custody Wednesday facing illegal computer access and attempted extortion charges after they allegedly threatened to shake down the popular Web site MySpace.com unless its operators paid them $150,000, prosecutors said.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2006
NEC Corp. and Microsoft Corp. plan to expand their business partnership in the networking and server businesses.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2006
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its local, photo-based search service into the United Kingdom, and adding traffic information for the U.S. service.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2006
Microsoft Corp. has told about 1,000 technology contract workers to take seven days off the job, without Microsoft pay, in a cost-saving move.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2006
Microsoft started off its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week in Seattle with a bang, revealing an accelerated schedule for rolling virtualization capabilities into Windows Longhorn, and a management tool for virtual environments, as well as announcing the intent to acquire application virtualization vendor Softricity.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/23/2006
Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2006
U.S. chip maker Intel Corp. will design cheaper computers to be made by manufacturers in India for the country's rural poor.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2006
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released new test versions of what company co-founder Bill Gates called its three most important products.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2006
Much of Montana's government computer system crashed Monday, idling state employees and frustrating those who wanted to do such things as renew driver's licenses and obtain fishing permits.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2006
New Horizons becomes the largest network of Microsoft Gold Partners, it reports.
South Korea rejected appeal by Microsoft to overturn an antitrust decision against the world's largest software company.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/22/2006
For millions of PC users, the privacy-snatching programs known as spyware have been nothing but a headache as they swipe personal information, slow systems to a crawl and crash computers. For Webroot Software Inc., the annoying programs have been the foundation of success.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/22/2006
Microsoft developed technology for people to pay by the hour to use
a computer in their own homes.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/22/2006
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After months of being noncommittal, Microsoft Thursday finally published the system requirements for Windows Vista, and set up a Web site to help users plan ahead for Vista’s availability early next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/19/2006
Just five months after its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. gave Hewlett-Packard Co. the No. 1 ranking in worldwide personal computer shipments, a new batch of market numbers delivered some stomach-turning news to HP.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/19/2006
Piracy in China tempers the enormous business opportunities there.
The world's largest PC maker says it was merely bowing to customer demand when it decided to start offering microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in some of its high-end servers.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/19/2006
Symantec accused Microsoft of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/19/2006