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Semiconductor Sales Continue at Record Pace

The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.

Microsoft Responds to WMF Zero-Day Exploit

Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.

Private Eyes

Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.

Security Industry Rocked by Sony Rootkit Fiasco

The Sony BMG rootkit fiasco could be the worst retail marketing meltdown since the launch of New Coke.

I Spy

An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.

Q&A: XML Co-Creator Tim Bray

Sun's director of Web technologies talks about Microsoft's decision to go open source with an Office file format.

Open Warfare

Microsoft and Massachusetts continue sparring over file formats.

Call for Reviewers: Developer, SQL Exams

If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.

New Zero-Day Exploit Threatens XP Users

Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.

Outlook “12” To Include RSS Aggregator

Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.

Seagate To Buy Maxtor in $1.9 Billion Stock Deal

Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.

Kai-Fu Lee and Google Settle With Microsoft

Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.

IDC: PC Sales Growth To Remain Robust in 2006

Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.

EC Warns Microsoft of Pending Fines on Disclosure

The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.

New Year Resolution: No More Support for Mac IE

Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.

January: Two More Developer Betas Coming

.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.

Google Gives a Cool Billion for AOL Stake

Get ready for more colorful graphics on Google pages. That may be one of the most visible outcomes of a deal between the king of search engines and America Online.

CommVault Releases QiNetx 6.1

CommVault announced it is shipping version 6.1 of its QiNetix data management suite.

MS and SAP To Preview “Mendocino”

Microsoft said it and partner SAP will provide a technology preview of their jointly developed “Mendocino” product to 40 customers and 10 partners on Friday, right on schedule.

Gates, Bono Share Time's Person of the Year Cover

What do Bill and Melinda Gates have to do with 11 U.S. Presidents, and dozens of world leaders, great humanitarians, dictators, and just plain interesting people on a list that stretches back to 1927?

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