A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United
States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/10/2006
Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/09/2006
While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will introduce later this month a production-ready hybrid hard drive (HHD) that combines flash NAND memory with a large disk drive to dramatically speed system bootups, a Korean paper reports.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/09/2006
Gaming goes cross-platform, as Microsoft extends offerings to cell phones and upcoming Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
As expected, Microsoft Corp. today released three new security bulletins today as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday announcement, with two of the patches being rated as "critical."
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
NaviSite offers hosted services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.
A federal court has ordered a man who was at the center of the nation's first "spyware" case to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
A man pleaded guilty to charges of launching an attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some that belonged to the Department of Defense, and crippled a hospital's network.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
Two years after conceding his company erred in not developing its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of progress in fighting industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
John Thys still hasn't figured out how much his company has paid Google Inc. for bogus sales referrals caused by "click fraud" -- a sham aimed at a perceived weakness in the Internet search leader's lucrative advertising network.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
Amid stiffening competition, computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday its fiscal first-quarter results will miss earnings targets, blaming the shortfall on "pricing decisions."
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
Intel Corp. on Monday plans to unveil a single brand name for a new generation of chips for laptop PCs and desktop machines, calling them the Core 2 Duo.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/08/2006
From the business wires this week: a server password management app, .NET rules and Group Policy tools, an enterprise security report solution, and more.
One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what took so long.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
The Bush administration is defending new federal rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006