BlackBerry Outage Felt Across N. America

Research in Motion confirmed the outage Wednesday morning, but disclosed no details about the cause. 04/18/2007

BlackBerry Service Being Restored

BlackBerry service was being restored Wednesday morning after an overnight outage that left millions of users without mobile access to their e-mail on the popular device. 04/18/2007

Microsoft Offers SaaS Support to ISVs

Microsoft Corp. wants to provide support to independent software vendors (ISVs) that are plunging into the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. 04/18/2007

Intel 1Q Profit Surges 19 Percent

After enduring a brutal year of plunging profits and massive job cuts, Intel Corp.'s first-quarter profit surge and sunnier financial forecast has analysts optimistic that the chipmaker's painful turnaround is working. 04/18/2007

Wireless Security Puts IRS Data at Risk

Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers, according to the latest assessment of the agency's security policies released Tuesday. 04/18/2007

Microsoft Settles Iowa Lawsuit

Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to pay Iowans up to $180 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. 04/18/2007

Google Will Host Global Developer Event May 31

Search and Web tool provider Google Inc. has launched its inaugural Google Developer Day, which will host various events at Google offices across 10 nations on May 31. 04/18/2007

State Department Got Mail -- and Hackers

A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail. 04/18/2007

Google Expands Office Software

Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program as the two companies vie to dominate the online experience. 04/18/2007

Microsoft Plants Web Service Seeds in New Server Farm

Redmond sees a trend and pours money into growing a SaaS cash crop. 04/18/2007

Vonage Message Mixed on Technology Patch

Vonage Holdings Corp. is delivering conflicting messages on its ability to deploy a substitute technology should the Internet phone provider lose its bid to overturn a jury's verdict that it infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents. 04/17/2007

Wireless Security Puts IRS Data at Risk

Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers 04/17/2007

Google Expands Office Software

Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program. 04/17/2007

Telligent Releases Community Server 2007

Looking to broaden the use of its software for developing online communities, Web consultancy Telligent Systems has released a new version of its Community Server platform. 04/17/2007

Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up

It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web -- YouTube and MySpace included -- get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc. 04/17/2007

Microsoft Warns of Google-DoubleClick Danger

Microsoft isn't taking Google's proposed purchase of DoubleClick lying down. 04/17/2007

Seagate 3Q Profit Falls

EMC 1Q Profit Rises Nearly 15 Percent

EMC Corp. said Tuesday its first-quarter profit rose nearly 15 percent as the data storage vendor reported surging growth in Asia and strong sales of software that helps companies manage information flow. 04/17/2007

Intel 1Q Profit Surges 19 Percent

The company said it earned $1.61 billion, or 27 cents per share, in the first three months of the year. 04/17/2007

Microsoft Updates Action Packs

Microsoft has added several new messaging offerings to its latest Action Pack. 04/17/2007

IBM Meets 1Q Earnings Forecast

Dell Hires Former Oracle Executive

A former Oracle Corp. executive has been named Dell Inc.'s chief marketing officer. 04/17/2007

Microsoft Goes Crying to the Government Over Google

Redmond complains that Google-DoubleClick deal runs afoul of U.S. antitrust law. 04/17/2007

Virtually Late

Microsoft virtualization tools face delays. 04/17/2007

DoubleClick Away Your Privacy

Microsoft voices fears of Google monopoly. 04/17/2007

Microsoft Aims for Richer Web

Silverlight debuts, poised to take on Adobe's Flash. 04/17/2007

WPF/E Becomes 'Silverlight'

Microsoft's forthcoming cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content, known until now as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), has an official name: "Silverlight." 04/16/2007

Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up

Toshiba Enters Portable Storage Market

Toshiba Corp. -- known among consumers for its televisions, laptops and DVD players -- will begin selling portable hard drive products as well, becoming the latest company seeking to capitalize on people's expanding collections of digital data. 04/16/2007

Word Problems Multiply

Flaws abound for the the latest incarnation of Microsoft's word processor. 04/16/2007

Mac OS Can Be Late, Too!

Leopard gets bumped to the back burner for iPhone. 04/16/2007

Dissing DNS

Microsoft doesn't shrink away from the problem, this time. 04/16/2007

Making a Build

A review of Vincent Maraia's book on the best practices for Microsoft's software configuration. 04/15/2007

New Word, Windows Vulnerabilities Surface

Redmond this week was alerted to a spate of new security flaws in its vulnerability-ridden Word -- only this time, the victim is Microsoft's brand-new Word 2007 application. 04/13/2007

Google To Buy DoubleClick for $3.1B

Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc. 04/13/2007

Apple Delays Launch of Operating System

Apple Inc. said it won't be shipping its next-generation operating system in June as planned, saying it had to divert resources from the project so that it could launch its highly anticipated iPhone on time. 04/13/2007

TJX Thieves Had Time To Steal, Trip Up

For at least 17 months, someone had free rein inside TJX Cos.' computers. Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and transmit account data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards. 04/13/2007

Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B

The boards of both companies have approved the takeover, which is expected to close by the end of the year. 04/13/2007

Microsoft Warns of New DNS Attacks

Yesterday, Microsoft published a new security advisory warning of a new spate of attacks targeting a DNS vulnerability in its Windows server operating systems. 04/13/2007

Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet

Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over. 04/13/2007

New Opera Browser Shows Glance of 9 Favorites

The latest version of Opera's Web browser lets visitors see mini versions of their nine favorite sites at a glance. Click on any thumbnail to load the full site. 04/12/2007

Vonage Chief Executive Steps Down

Vonage CEO Michael Snyder resigned Thursday as the troubled Internet phone company reported weak preliminary first-quarter results and announced a restructuring plan that includes an unspecified number of jobs cuts. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Foresees More Suits in Japan

A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Foresees More Lawuits in Japan

A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company, an executive said Thursday. 04/12/2007

Report Reveals AJAX on the Rise

There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Virtualization Products Face Delays

Several Microsoft virtualization products are seeing their shipping dates slip. 04/12/2007

IBM Develops Chip-Stacking Technique

IBM has found a way to connect chips inside products ranging from cell phones to supercomputers, an advance that promises to prolong battery life in wireless devices and eventually speed data transfers between the processor and memory chips in computers, the company said Thursday. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Issues ASP.NET Glitch Fix

Microsoft has released a public hotfix patch to address a number of ASP.NET 2.0 compilation issues, according to Microsoft Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie. 04/12/2007

VoIP Market Not Hit by Vonage Patent Woe

The legal trouble threatening Vonage Holdings Corp. doesn't yet appear to be rippling across the Internet phone industry, a stark contrast to last year's BlackBerry patent dispute that spooked existing and would-be users of the popular e-mail device. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Patches Flaws, Pushes Forefront

It's mixed-message irony for Redmond as it describes security holes and security solutions in the same week. 04/12/2007