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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
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.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/03/2006
Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2006
The Sony BMG rootkit fiasco could be the worst retail marketing meltdown since the launch of New Coke.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2006
An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.
Sun's director of Web technologies talks about Microsoft's decision to go open source with an Office file format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/01/2006
Microsoft and Massachusetts continue sparring over file formats.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2006
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.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/29/2005
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.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/29/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/22/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/21/2005
CommVault announced it is shipping version 6.1 of its QiNetix data management suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/21/2005
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.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/21/2005
As promised, after skipping November, Microsoft began shipping the December Windows Vista community technology preview (CTP) to customers and partners this week. Among other features, the latest build debuts a slew of new security capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/20/2005