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
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
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 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
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
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