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New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday.
05/11/2007
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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs defended the company's handling of its stock options-backdating scandal Thursday and suggested a former employee's accusations about his role in the matter were wrong.
05/11/2007
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Sun Microsystems commanded the spotlight at its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco last week. The company announced a new JavaFX product line and Java SE development kit, along with an Ericsson partnership (see this week's news for full stories).
05/11/2007
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Readers predict how Linux will gain market share and allude to flying office furniture.
05/11/2007
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There's a whiff of burning cash in the air as Redmond execs hint at next spending moves. Meanwhile, a reader sounds off on SaaS.
05/11/2007
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Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
05/10/2007
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In a sign that environmental sensibilities are informing business strategies, IBM Corp. is spending $1 billion to spread technologies and services that could make corporate computing centers more energy efficient.
05/10/2007
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Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday warned of multiple vulnerabilities in its IOS FTP server, an optional service that's disabled by default.
05/10/2007
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Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
05/10/2007
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Windows Server virtualization, code-named "Viridian," is having some features stripped in order to meet its public beta shipping date in the second half of 2007 -- a ship date that recently slipped itself.
05/10/2007
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Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently code-named "Longhorn."
05/10/2007
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Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently codenamed 'Longhorn.'
05/10/2007
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Recent acquisitions by Microsoft, SAP and Oracle suggest that the big players may know what they're doing in the business intelligence segment -- but do they?
05/10/2007
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New product has added benefit of enabling companies to test Vista.
05/10/2007
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Business software maker SAP AG announced plans Tuesday to buy OutlookSoft Corp. and its line of technology products tailored for budgeting and financial forecasts, the latest development in SAP's duel with Oracle Corp.
05/09/2007
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Microsoft Corp. has signed deals with Volvo Car Corp. and whisky maker Chivas Brothers Ltd. to support two new Web-only video series from Reveille, the production company behind TV shows "The Office" and "Ugly Betty."
05/09/2007
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VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
05/09/2007
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VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
05/09/2007
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Online retailer Amazon.com and IBM settled all their patent-infringement lawsuits and signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement, the companies said Tuesday.
05/09/2007
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If you're taking your first MCP or Microsoft Dynamics exam, you're eligible for a 40 percent discount on your very first exam.
05/09/2007
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Microsoft kicked off its first-ever Business Intelligence (BI) Conference in Seattle with a keynote speech by Business Division President Jeff Raikes, who spoke in general terms about Microsoft’s efforts to integrate existing products into businesses processes, without offering much in the way of specifics.
05/09/2007
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Cisco Systems Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit surged 34 percent as widespread networking upgrades and consumers' thirst for more bandwidth continued to fuel the company's robust growth.
05/09/2007
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Shavlik Technologies is offering a free download of its network solution to detect security misconfigurations and missing critical updates in older installed Microsoft products.
05/08/2007
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Computer and printer maker Hewlett Packard Co. lifted its second-quarter forecast on Tuesday, citing strong results in its personal computer and server businesses.
05/08/2007
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Research in Motion this week announced it is developing a Visual Studio plug-in for developing apps for BlackBerry devices, a move that follows its late-April announcement of software that will provide Windows Mobile 6-based phones with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience.
05/08/2007
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While most corporations eventually intend to migrate, it could be a long process, and there are still significant concerns with Vista.
05/08/2007
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When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
05/08/2007
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Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
05/08/2007
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Microsoft Corp. today published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
05/08/2007
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Sun Microsystems today unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing market for rich Internet applications (RIA).
05/08/2007
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Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
05/08/2007
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DNS vulnerability in Windows Server to be fixed.
05/08/2007
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The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.
05/07/2007
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Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
05/07/2007
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A court Monday found the principal of a village school guilty of using bootleg Microsoft software and ordered him to pay a fine of about $195 in a case that was cast by Russian media as a battle between a humble educator and an international corporation.
05/07/2007
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The last time Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs took on major recording companies, he refused to budge on his 99-cent price for a song on iTunes.
05/07/2007
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Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
05/07/2007
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Microsoft, perhaps stung by its failure to buy online advertising giant DoubleClick in recent months, announced that it has bought European company ScreenTonic SA, a mobile advertising company.
05/04/2007
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One of the most ambitious aspects of the "$100 laptop" project for schoolchildren in developing countries is the machines' open-source software platform, designed to be intuitive for kids.
05/04/2007
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Microsoft is said to be resuming its pursuit of search engine operator Yahoo, which will help it better compete with search leader Google.
05/04/2007
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A recent study commissioned by systems management and deployment appliance maker KACE found that the majority of IT professionals working in "Fortune 100,000" or mid-sized companies" (defined as those companies with 100 to 100,000 employees) fear they could lose their job in the event of a security breach at their company.
05/04/2007
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All seven updates will address critical issues, Microsoft said. Redmond lumped the bulletins into several groups, two of which affect Windows.
05/04/2007
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Redmond ingests ScreenTonic after failed DoubleClick bid.
05/04/2007
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is introducing its third new model in less than a year, a mid-sized device geared toward consumers who might prefer a full keyboard for typing text rather than the abridged one on the popular Pearl.
05/03/2007
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BizTalk R2 represents a change in thinking about RFID, or radio frequency identification, says Microsoft product manager.
05/03/2007
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Computer chips, it seems, work better if they're more like Swiss cheese than American cheese.
05/03/2007
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Visual
Basic guru Paul Vick revealed this week on his blog that the company is
working on a reboot of Visual Basic, dubbed at this stage VBx
05/03/2007
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Once in a while, all that research pays off.
05/03/2007
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Microsoft moves further into the security arena with the release of Forefront Client Security.
05/03/2007
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The security of the OS may hinge on a few pieces of old code.
05/03/2007