From the business wires this week: an Exchange search tool, Windows backup products, and SQL Server monitoring and managing tools.
With Intel-based Mac machines now widely available, hackers find a way to get it done. One site even offers contest with prize money.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/17/2006
Lockheed Martin Corp. will build a new computer system for the FBI in an effort to put to rest the bureau's multimillion-dollar troubles with technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
The IT training provider deepens its European operations in 12 countries.
Google Inc. said Thursday it expects to complete its $1 billion investment in America Online during the second quarter, slightly later than the two popular Web sites originally anticipated.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
Microsoft this week announced it will ship in June an operational analytics application for decision makers designed to work with its Dynamics brand of software for small and mid-size businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/16/2006
Security researchers are warning about a new variety of unusually powerful denial of service attacks.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
Microsoft Corp. announced a $500 million marketing initiative Thursday aimed at competing with IBM Corp. for corporate spending on information technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
Microsoft has sued eight people for selling counterfeit copies of its software through online auction site eBay, the company said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/16/2006
Cell phones doing more; computer, TV technology converging closer, says Microsoft chairman
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
Credit card data on Bananas.com music and gear Web site compromised, with several victims coming forward.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/16/2006
New exam provides MCDBAs with short path to MCITP; new developer exams for application developers now available
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/16/2006
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates sketched out a vision for the future in which a cell phone will become a "digital wallet," able to get e-mail and even scan business cards, while computers and TVs will merge.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2006
New Internet attacks targeting computers that manage global Internet traffic has potential to overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2006
Microsoft is turning to a third-party firm to make Microsoft Live Communications Server more interoperable with other communications products based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/15/2006
The Internet's key oversight agency has outlined a plan for testing domain names entirely in non-English characters, bringing closer to reality a change highly sought by Asian and Arabic Internet users.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2006
Google Inc.'s legal showdown with the Bush administration over the right to protect the privacy of its audience and trade secrets appears to be tilting in the Internet search engine's favor, even though a federal judge has signaled he will order the company to turn over some records to the government.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2006
Microsoft Wednesday delivered the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005, including the data mirroring technologies that missed last fall’s release of the big update to Microsoft’s flagship database product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/15/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that the European Commission has refused its request for an open antitrust hearing later this month -- hearings the EU said are never open to the public.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2006
Flaws allowing remote code execution in Microsoft Office and elevation of privilege in Windows were the source for two security bulletins posted by the software giant on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/14/2006