EU Accuses Rambus of 'Patent Ambush'

European Union regulators have charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging the memory chip designer demanded "unreasonable" royalties for its patents that were fraudulently set as industry standards. 08/23/2007

A Monster Problem

A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say. 08/23/2007

Skype Backs Off of Patch Tuesday Excuse

Microsoft is off the hook for outage. 08/23/2007

Readers on Office 2007 and XenSource

Complaints and compliments on various Microsoft topics. 08/23/2007

PerformancePoint Coming in September

What does it mean for business? 08/23/2007

Spring Web Services 1.0 Released

Java programmers who like the open source Spring Framework can develop applications for Web services using the newly released Spring Web Services 1.0 stack. 08/22/2007

Ukrainian May Have Ties to TJX Theft

A Ukrainian man recently arrested in Turkey is suspected of selling some of the credit and debit card numbers stolen in a data hack of at least 45 million cards of TJX Cos. retail customers, a U.S. investigator said Tuesday. 08/22/2007

China: Bloggers Should Use Real Names

Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to register users with their real names and contact information, according to a new government document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online blogging. 08/22/2007

Gartner: Home Networks Still in 'Trough of Disillusionment'

"Home networking" still an oxymoron for most. 08/22/2007

Microsoft To Release (Cisco-Friendly) Communications Products in October

Microsoft and Cisco vie for slices of unified communications pie. 08/22/2007

XenSource: Is That Microsoft's Music?

Microsoft wrestles with virtualization. 08/22/2007

SOA's 'Lack of ROI' Cited in Report

A benchmarking report that tracks how well service-oriented architecture (SOA) fits with return on investment (ROI) found an underwhelming correlation so far, based on a survey response. Of 106 enterprises surveyed, just 37 percent indicated a positive ROI from SOA. 08/21/2007

Bebo To Add IM Powered by Microsoft

Social-networking site Bebo Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a Microsoft-powered instant-messaging program this fall. 08/21/2007

Microsoft To Launch Communications Tools in October

The next generation of Microsoft's efforts at unified communications will be unveiled on Oct. 16. 08/21/2007

Microsoft On Skype Outage: Don't Blame Us

Microsoft's official stance on the recent Skype outage that left millions of users without phone access for two days last week? "Hey, it's not our fault." 08/21/2007

Microsoft and Cisco: The Happy Couple...For Now

Company CEOs appear chummy in interview, but a fierce battle lurks beneath the surface. 08/21/2007

Skype: Patch Tuesday Knocked Us Out

The outage, however, was due to a Skype -- not Microsoft -- bug. 08/21/2007

Turner: Xbox Won't Be Profitable for a While Yet

Microsoft probably won't go broke, however. 08/21/2007

Skype Outage Caused by Microsoft Update

A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday. 08/20/2007

SOA Security Basics

Security for the service-oriented architecture (SOA) was described by Brian V. Cummings of Tata Consultancy Services at the IBM SHARE conference this week. 08/20/2007

Judge's Ruling Signals 'Game Over' for SCO

The Utah federal court judge's ruling on August 10 -- that SuSE Linux distributor Novell does, in fact, own the copyrights to the UNIX operating system -- signals a major legal blow for The SCO Group. It ends a nearly-five-year-old legal campaign that sowed fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) among Linux users and developers. 08/20/2007

CodeGear To Release Eclipse Plug-Ins

CodeGear, the development-tools arm of Borland Software Corp., is set to release a group of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open source development platform next month. Collectively called JGear, the plug-ins are designed to address pain points faced by Java developers using Eclipse-based tools. 08/20/2007

Companies Clamping Down on Messaging

Whenever a doctor, nurse or administrator in Georgia's DeKalb Medical Center sends an e-mail, the message detours through a special box in the three-hospital system's computing cluster. The box analyzes the e-mail, scanning for sensitive information like patient names, prescription histories and Social Security numbers. 08/20/2007

Admin Tool Goes Open Source

Google Offers Free $70 Software

Solaris on Mainframes?

A Service-Oriented Architected House

Dell To Restate Earnings After Probe

Dell Inc. executives have finally wrapped up a yearlong internal investigation into accounting problems at the computer company, and the mistakes could end up costing them as much as $150 million. 08/17/2007

HP 3Q Profit Beats Wall Street Estimates

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s third-quarter sales and profit breezed past Wall Street's estimates as the technology bellwether continued to cash in on healthy sales of laptop computers and lucrative printing ink. Shares inched higher on a boosted financial forecast. 08/17/2007

SOA for Your Home

Peter Rhys Jenkins brought home several important points about service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- literally -- at this week's IBM SHARE conference in San Diego. Rhys Jenkins is senior integration solutions architect for IBM's worldwide WebSphere team. 08/17/2007

Airline Sues Google Over Keyword Ads

American Airlines is suing Google Inc. over the Internet company's sale of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks. 08/17/2007

Longtime Rivals IBM, Sun To Collaborate

Two longtime rivals in computing, IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., plan to cooperate on some server technologies, a move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard Co. 08/16/2007

Script Start Going Open Source

Entrigue Systems will release Script Start, a Windows logon scripting tool, free of charge to open source developers in September. The aim is to spur custom development of Script Start -- something for which its users have been clamoring, according to Entrigue President Jon McDonald. 08/16/2007

Google Distributing Sun Office Software

Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software. 08/16/2007

VMware's Stock Rises 76 Percent in Debut

VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend. 08/15/2007

Review: New IMac Tempts a Windows User

Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star. 08/15/2007

OpenSolaris: Murdock Speaks on Project Indiana

Those who suggest that Sun Microsystems' Project Indiana is about making the Solaris operating system more Linux-like are missing the point, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief OS platform strategist. Headlines such as "Sun Hopes for Linux-like Solaris" and "Sun OpenSolaris To Become More Linux-like," drive him crazy. 08/15/2007

Private Funds Needed for Safety Network

The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves. 08/15/2007

AMD Spec for Easier Multithread Development

Advanced Micro Devices yesterday published a proposed specification for a new class of hardware extensions designed to increase the performance of applications running in multicore environments. 08/15/2007

Continuous Team Builds

Microsoft is taking on Continuous Integration -- should you? 08/15/2007

Citrix Buying VMware Rival for $500M

Citrix Systems is buying XenSource Inc. for $500 million, marking the second big deal this week in thte virtualization segment. 08/15/2007

Microsoft Completes AQuantive Move, Becomes Ad Agency

Redmond completes its $6 billion leap into advertising fray. 08/15/2007

They're Swinging for Office, But It's Hard To Knock Out the Champ

Office competitors land glancing blows as Redmond's brand recognition makes it tough to connect. 08/15/2007

Real Investment in Virtualization: VMware Goes Public

Wall Street feeding frenzy triggered by company's IPO. 08/15/2007

Virtualization Rules the Day at LinuxWorld

Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week. 08/14/2007

VMware Sets Much-Anticipated IPO at $29

Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago. 08/14/2007

Microsoft Releases 9 Patches

Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine. 08/14/2007

Oracle 11g Ships, But New Features Cost Extra

The recently launched Oracle 11g database server is now shipping but today's release announcement came with a twist: Some of the new features come at an additional cost. 08/14/2007

Exchange Service Pack Beta Released

Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack. 08/14/2007

Microsoft: Windows XP Product Keys Running Out

Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys. 08/13/2007