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  • Still a Friendly Ghost

    Whether you're an enterprise network or a small company, there's nothing to be scared of with this Ghost. 06/01/2007

  • Engineering Success Offshore

    Best practices for ensuring a productive outsourcing experience. 06/01/2007

  • Ready To Rumble

    IBM's System x3650 is impressive in both performance and price. 06/01/2007

  • Google's Office Competitor: When Will 'Free' Trump 'Feature-Rich'?

    Google Gears adds another reason -- offline access -- why businesses might adopt a SaaS-based contender to Office. 06/01/2007

  • Gates Misses Chance To Yell, 'I Got the Loot, Steve!'

    It's grips and grins for Microsoft and Apple honchos at conference event, plus a few barbs in between. 06/01/2007

  • Readers on Making Money With Vista and Other Stuff

    Admins profiting through uninstall help is not what we had in mind. 06/01/2007

  • More Twists for Microsoft-Novell Linux Deal

    Novell may still be in the hot seat when it comes to GPLv3. 06/01/2007

  • News

    Man Described As a Top Spammer Arrested

    A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. 05/31/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Releases Host of 'Live' Betas

    Microsoft Product Manager Nick White announced betas for Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Live Writer. 05/31/2007

  • News

    Yahoo's Chief Tech Officer Resigns

    Yahoo Inc.'s chief technology officer is resigning after nearly a decade on the job, creating a management void as the Internet icon tries to mine more profits from a recent upgrade to its system for delivering online ads. 05/31/2007

  • News

    'Server Core': Small Footprint, Big Security

    IT admins are justifiably excited by the idea of a "server core" in Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn Server. The technology, which strips out extraneous functionality to allow just the services needed to run a server in a specific role, promises easier installation and a smaller footprint once set up. It even has implications for security. 05/31/2007

  • News

    Dell Lays Off 8,000 As Earnings Rise

    Dell Inc. said Thursday that earnings rose 8 percent in preliminary first-quarter results, but the computer maker planned to lay off about 8,000 employees over the next year as part of an ongoing restructuring. 05/31/2007

  • News

    Gates, Jobs Make Rare Joint Appearance

    Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice. 05/31/2007

  • News

    Telelogic Adds Business Process SOA Solution

    Malmo, Sweden- and Irvine, Calif.-based Telelogic has enhanced its solutions for service-oriented architectures (SOAs). The provider of enterprise lifecycle management products is now offering its new System Architect for SOA product, along with a new version of its Tau model-driven development solution. 05/31/2007

  • Ballmer: Ads and Electronics Are the Future

    Microsoft CEO targets lagging areas for renewed efforts. 05/31/2007

  • It's Shakeup Time for Microsoft Partner Program

    Exec memo signals a "change in the weather" for Worldwide Partner Group. 05/31/2007

  • Redmond Brings Tabletop Computing to the Surface

    New hardware device can scan objects placed on it. 05/31/2007

  • News

    Gates, Jobs Make Rare Joint Appearance

    Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice. 05/30/2007

  • News

    Scratching the 'Surface'

    Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects. 05/30/2007

  • News

    IBM Cutting Another 1,500 Positions

    IBM Corp. laid off 1,570 people Wednesday, primarily from an ongoing overhaul of operations in its giant technology services unit. 05/30/2007

  • News

    Google Chairman Dismisses Privacy Issue

    Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that U.S. regulatory approval of his company's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will not be hindered by concerns over privacy. 05/30/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Partner Group Restructures

    Microsoft channel chief Allison Watson laid out in an internal e-mail Tuesday a new structure for her Worldwide Partner Group and described a new partner subsidiary, called the Partner Leadership Team, for the fiscal year starting July 1. 05/30/2007

  • News

    Vista Pre-Release Time Bomb Set To Explode

    Warning to users of pre-release versions of Windows Vista: In two days, your operating system will self-destruct, like the cassette tape at the beginning of "Mission: Impossible." 05/30/2007

  • Feds Looking Into Google Deal...Because of Microsoft?

    Squabble over online ad business results in someone calling in the cops. 05/30/2007

  • News

    Novell Publishes Details of Microsoft Agreement

    As a part of its annual report and SEC 10K filings, Novell has included access to the agreements signed with Microsoft on the distribution of SuSE Linux free of any potential Microsoft patent claims. 05/29/2007

  • News

    Google, South Korean Co Mull Wider Deal

    The top executives of Google Inc. and Daum Communications Corp., South Korea's No. 2 Internet search engine, met Tuesday to discuss broadening their partnership, Daum said. 05/29/2007

  • News

    FTC Probing Google-DoubleClick Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc. 05/29/2007

  • News

    SharePoint 2007 Earns Government Compliance Certification

    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has received government certification for its ability to meet regulatory compliance standards. 05/29/2007

  • News

    PDC Cancellation 'Not a Shock'

    Microsoft announced the cancellation of its semi-annual Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) last week, leading to lots of Internet speculation on the reason. But conspiracy theorists should take a breath: The reason may well be as mundane as the fact that it just isn't necessary this year. 05/29/2007

  • News

    GoDaddy Agrees To Run Domains in Limbo

    GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet domain names, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 addresses belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday. 05/29/2007

  • News

    EU Probes Google Over Privacy Concerns

    An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules. 05/25/2007

  • News

    Dell Starts Selling Linux Computers Today

    Starting today, you can buy Dell computers with Linux as the operating system. Dell is offering the open source OS on two desktop models and one laptop model. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Dell To Sell Computers at Wal-Mart

    Dell Inc. plans to sell personal computers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, in a departure from Dell's approach of selling machines only directly to customers. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Software Plus Services Means Greater Choice, Microsoft Exec Says

    What does the "plus" mean in Microsoft's Software Plus Services? A keynote talk by John DeVadoss, director of architecture strategy at Microsoft, provided an explanation. He spoke on the topic, "Software Plus Services: Towards a Model of Differentiated IT" at the Enterprise Architect Summit 2007 event held this week. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Don Ferguson on Changing 'the Fundamental Nature of the Web'

    In an April cover story, Redmond Developer News examined the defection of IBM's former chief software architect Don Ferguson to Microsoft earlier this year. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Vista Not a Magic Bullet for PC Market

    Microsoft tends to tout the release of a new operating system as an earth-shattering event, certain to change computing as we know it. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Study: More Spam but Fewer Complaints

    Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Cancels Its Flagship Developer Conference

    The Professional Developers Conference, scheduled to take place from Oct. 2 to 5 in Los Angeles, has been canceled this year. 05/24/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Exec Slams Door on Yahoo Deal Speculation

    If there was any lingering doubt about whether Microsoft's recent announcement to buy online advertising firm aQuantive spelled the end of its dalliance with Yahoo, they were laid to rest yesterday. 05/24/2007

  • Google and Salesforce.com: Microsoft's Waterloo?

    Recent deals outside Redmond's control suggest a battle royal in the making over the enterprise software turf. 05/24/2007

  • News

    More Dish on MOICE

    Microsoft provided a few more details about this week's MOICE offering, which was the subject of a previous security advisory. 05/23/2007

  • News

    U.S. House Approves Bill To Combat Spyware

    The House passed legislation Tuesday to combat the criminal use of Internet spyware and scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users. 05/23/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Pushes Non-Security Security Update

    Microsoft Corp. last night released a new security advisory, the second this week. The good news is that it doesn't actually deal with a known exploit, worm, or virus. In other words, it doesn't technically deal with security at all. 05/23/2007

  • News

    ASP.NET Futures Release Showcases New Controls, Capabilities

    Microsoft has announced ASP.NET Futures May 2007, a collection that includes early versions of new tools for ASP.NET and the Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in. 05/23/2007

  • News

    Lenovo Group Profits Soar

    Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's No. 4 personal computer maker, said Wednesday its profits grew nearly sevenfold in its latest fiscal year as it boosted sales and restructured following its acquisition of IBM Corp.'s PC unit. 05/23/2007

  • News

    'The List': Open Source Advocates Unleash Fury at Microsoft

    "The List" is nearly 500 names long, and growing rapidly. It might have started out as a light-hearted jab, but it has quickly become a flashpoint of the building fury in the open source software community toward Microsoft and its recent claim of patent infringements. 05/22/2007

  • News

    T-Mobile Phone First To Use Windows Mobile 6

    T-Mobile USA on Tuesday will launch the first cell phone in the U.S. to come with Microsoft's latest version of Windows Mobile, with improved handling of e-mail and tougher security. 05/22/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Announces New Office Security Tools

    Yesterday, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE), a feature it hopes will help put the kibosh on an increasingly common exploit vector –- the innocent-looking Office document with a malicious payload. 05/22/2007

  • News

    DataDirect XQuery 3.0 Released

    DataDirect Technologies has released version 3.0 of its XQuery product, an XQuery processor that streamlines and makes more efficient use of multiple data types, including XML, SOAP and EDI messages, and legacy data. 05/22/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Forges Security Alliance With Juniper Networks

    Microsoft, Juniper work to integrate Network Access Protection and Unified Access Control 05/22/2007

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