Despite a lackluster showing in its first decade, Intel’s Itanium 2 line of true 64-bit CPUs may be set to come into its own with strong growth likely in the next three years, according to a new report from market researchers at IDC.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/23/2006
From the business wires this week: an application deployer, a password recovery solution, Web content filter for Active Directory, more.
A Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison in a computer theft case involving more than 1 billion records that Acxiom Corp., a data-management company, collected in its work for large corporations.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/23/2006
Microsoft has confirmed that a new build of the current beta of "Longhorn" server is shipping to some participants in the current Windows Vista technology preview.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/23/2006
Stepping up competition in the PC industry, Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's third-largest computer maker, is introducing its first Lenovo-branded computers to be sold outside its home base of China.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/23/2006
Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step Thursday of making public its formal response to European Union charges that it was failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/23/2006
Microsoft investing in phone system to reach out and touch more partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/22/2006
Microsoft is shipping a set of tools meant to help customers more closely tie Microsoft’s Dynamics products into Office 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/22/2006
The Windows Vista enterprise CTP, or community technology preview, released Wednesday, will be followed next quarter by a consumer CTP. The two CTPs replace a Beta 2 version of Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/22/2006
Look out Microsoft, you’re not the only ones who want in on the corporate instant messaging and collaboration tools game, or the online services market.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/22/2006
BRUSSELS-A group of Microsoft Corp.'s rivals filed a complaint with the European Commission on Wednesday, alleging its business practices threatened to deny real choice among competing software products.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/22/2006
The FBI's latest attempt to modernize its computers is running behind schedule and its budget already has exceeded the cost of the last failed effort.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/22/2006
BEJING-China is cracking down on junk e-mail and "illegal" mobile phone text messages, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/22/2006
After appearing to release official names for the editions of Windows Vista over the weekend, Microsoft now says the Web page where the names appeared was posted prematurely and the names are not final.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/21/2006
Company plans crossover with partner program.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/21/2006
The latest release of Microsoft's full-on e-commerce package has begun beta testing, the company said this week. Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 is currently targeted for final release in July.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/21/2006
Microsoft announced this week it has begun beta testing Systems Management Server 2003 Release 2.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/21/2006
As if to reinforce its message that it is now an application lifecycle firm, Borland Software announced this week it is shipping a new IT governance solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2006
It's official. Microsoft announced overnight on Wednesday that Office "12" will be officially known as -- ta da! -- Office 2007. At the same time, the Redmond software maker announced a dizzying array of packaging and licensing options.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2006
Alero Technology announced this week it is shipping Release 2 of its Alero 2006 enterprise information management package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/16/2006