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
Most people probably dream of being the world's richest person -- except, perhaps, the man himself.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2006
In the past year, Microsoft held discussions with search engine competitor Yahoo regarding a possible buyout, or taking a stake in its rival, according to published reports this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/04/2006
Product life-cycle management (PLM) applications vendor UGS and Microsoft announced this week a multi-year alliance through which they will collaborate to host the smaller company’s suite of products entirely on Windows -- a first, they say.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/04/2006
Microsoft opens up exam discounts to registered members of its Partner program, allows discount to be combined with exam retake offer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/03/2006
Microsoft and partner SAP on Tuesday said they are still on schedule to ship their “Project Mendocino” integration product in June.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2006
Network administration software vendor ScriptLogic announced this week it is shipping the latest revision of its security compliance and auditing solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2006
Microsoft has begun beta testing Service Pack 1 of Virtual Server 2005 R2, an update to the company’s main virtualization platform that will add support for hardware virtualization in both Intel and AMD processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/02/2006
Google Inc. is hoping to pressure Microsoft Corp. into changing a new Internet Explorer browser feature that could direct more people to Microsoft's online search engine instead of Google's far more popular offering.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Truce in lawsuit will have company paying out $70 million to California government agencies.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
No one can quite agree on whether Microsoft Corp. held its first online advertising summit in a conference room or a cafeteria, but what everyone does remember is how little attention was paid to the field just seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Trying to increase demand for personal computers in India and other emerging markets, Intel Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to promote the use of computers in schools, cafes and other public spots in developing countries.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Research firm predicts release of Vista in late spring of 2007; Microsoft thinks it can make early 2007.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Microsoft Corp. will pay $70 million to thousands of California government agencies in the latest legal settlement spurred by price-gouging allegations against the world's largest computer software maker.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006