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Japanese electronics maker plans to recall 340,000 notebook computer batteries, some manufactured by Sony Corp.
09/19/2006
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The White House has chosen an industry information security specialist as its cybersecurity chief, filling a job that has had no permanent director for a year.
09/19/2006
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After 16 years at Microsoft, Jim Allchin, co-president of the company's Platforms and Services Division, is retiring in a couple of months -- when much-delayed Windows Vista finally ships to customers.
09/19/2006
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Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining startups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.
09/19/2006
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Microsoft is shipping Beta 2 of its new System Center Essentials 2007 systems management product.
09/19/2006
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Will you be hoisting a Microsoft beer? It's not totally impossible.
09/19/2006
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Also, Microstrategy wins appeal; Zune details.
09/18/2006
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Microsoft scrambles to update Windows Media after a hacker released a program that circumvents a safeguard designed to prevent people from freely copying digital movies and songs.
09/15/2006
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John Lauer, who headed Microsoft’s Small and Midsize Solutions & Partner Group, announced he is leaving the company to launch his own startup.
09/15/2006
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RSA Security Inc. said its shareholders approved the company's $2.1 billion acquisition by data storage provider EMC Corp.
09/15/2006
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Supercomputers that perform trillions of operations every second are helping scientists probe life's deepest complexities.
09/14/2006
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The copy protection program that Sony put on CDs last year is still posing a threat to computer users running certain versions of AOL or PestPatrol antivirus software.
09/14/2006
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Fake cyberattackers and hackers largely foiled government and industry attempts to fight back quickly and effectively during a test of computer security systems.
09/14/2006
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A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
09/14/2006
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Microsoft is shipping the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Server "Longhorn," according to statements posted on a company blog last weekend.
09/14/2006
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Microsoft sees potential to sell computer keyboards, mice and other hardware in emerging markets where software sales are hampered by widespread piracy.
09/14/2006
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Microsoft quietly announced Thursday that it is shipping the Beta 2 technical refresh of Office 2007.
09/14/2006
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An Australian man is under investigation for sending more than 2 billion junk e-mails in one year to promote Viagra.
09/14/2006
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Microsoft security products might be a hard sell.
09/14/2006
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One of the last remaining consumer class-action antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft Corp. in a state court is set to go to trial in November, and Bill Gates is on the witness list.
09/13/2006
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Microsoft's announcement on Monday that its long-awaited Windows Live Search service is officially out of beta test and ready for use signals its biggest move to date to challenge search giant Google for both consumers and businesses.
09/13/2006
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To encourage adoption of Web services by developers, including open source projects, Microsoft has announced a promise not to sue for use of its proprietary XML specifications.
09/13/2006
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Two Moroccan men have been sentenced to prison terms for helping write the Zotob computer virus that attacked major U.S. networks last year, a court official said Wednesday.
09/13/2006
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that veteran manager Satya Nadella will succeed Doug Burgum as head of the company's Business Solutions group, which develops and markets the Dynamics brand of small and mid-sized business applications.
09/12/2006
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The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
09/12/2006
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European Union officials warned Microsoft not to shut out rivals in the security software market.
09/12/2006
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Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is "absurd."
09/12/2006
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Emmett offers his top tips and advice to help any interop project run smoother.
09/12/2006
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Users who have wanted to save Microsoft Office documents in Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) were frustrated earlier this year when Redmond announced it would not include the capability as a native function in Office 2007 as it had previously announced.
09/12/2006
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Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn took the fall Tuesday after admitting she authorized an investigation that relied on "inappropriate techniques" to uncover who was leaking boardroom secrets to the media.
09/12/2006
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Microsoft Corp. plans to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo and Google.
09/11/2006
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ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006, according to Scott Guthrie, general manager, Microsoft Developer Division.
09/11/2006
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Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly.
09/11/2006
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Dell Inc. has delayed filing its fiscal second-quarter financial report and suspended its share repurchase program because of an ongoing federal accounting probe. It was the latest in a series of setbacks for the world's largest PC maker
09/11/2006
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As expected, Microsoft released three patches today to fix one critical Office vulnerability as well as two Windows flaws.
09/11/2006
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When Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini announced an exhaustive review of the company's unprofitable divisions in April, rumors began swirling about scorched-earth job cuts to reverse sinking profits.
09/07/2006
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Microsoft Corp. today issued a security advisory telling customers it is "investigating" reports of new zero-day code aimed at Microsoft Word 2000.
09/07/2006
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Microsoft is rebranding its Retail Management System to become another
offering in its line of Microsoft Dynamics business products.
09/07/2006
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As expected, Microsoft has widened the availability of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to users who participated in the Vista Beta 2 testing program last spring.
09/07/2006
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Stick a fork in her, she's Dunn.
09/07/2006
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A San Diego man was so upset that the University of Southern California did not admit him as a student that he hacked into the school's application system and stole other would-be students' personal information, he admitted in court.
09/06/2006
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Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated this week a single client agent providing interoperability between the software giant's coming Network Access Protection (NAP) and the networking behemoth's Network Admission Control (NAC) protocols.
09/06/2006
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Brian Valentine, a fixture in Microsoft's management team for nearly 20 years, has left the company to join Amazon.com.
09/06/2006
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Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
09/06/2006
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Microsoft has changed the requirements for its MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer title, no longer requiring passage of three exams.
09/06/2006
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Sun Microsystems and Unisys have filed a lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor in the United States, apparently seeking damages related to a federal probe into price-fixing of memory chips.
09/05/2006
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Quest Software announced it is shipping an administration tool designed to simplify management of sites based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies.
09/05/2006
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With Intel Corp. apparently poised to announce the latest stage of its restructuring effort, speculation has centered not on whether the world's largest chip maker would be cutting jobs, but on how many.
09/05/2006
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Microsoft will broaden distribution of the first "release candidate" of Windows Vista to as many as five million testers beginning this week, after sending initial versions out late last week.
09/05/2006
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The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the nation's first felony conviction of illegal spamming.
09/05/2006