WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest advertising and marketing conglomerate, is buying the online advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million, the companies announced Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect. Microsoft is part of a consortium of companies that designed the free Web resource to help women and minority entrepreneurs use the Internet and other technology to help grow their businesses.
The next generation of wireless Internet products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to hit shelves this summer, even though a final standard for the technology isn't due for another year, the industry group says.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
In its latest technological leap, online search leader Google Inc. will begin showing videos on its main results page Wednesday along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/11/2007
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2007
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."
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2007
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.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/08/2007
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).
- By John K. Waters
- 05/08/2007
Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/07/2007
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.
Microsoft is said to be resuming its pursuit of search engine operator Yahoo, which will help it better compete with search leader Google.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
IdentityMine has released a community technology preview, or CTP, of a toolset for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers called "Blendables."
This month, readers chime in on Microsoft and open source, and sound off about the Office UI.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 05/01/2007
If Microsoft can't even explain its SaaS strategy, how can it expect anyone to buy into it?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 05/01/2007
Web filtering is problematic at best, but iPrism puts up a solid defense.
- By Bill Heldman
- 05/01/2007
Instant Messaging (IM) makes tactical communication a snap, but too often IM serves as a doorway for hackers. Here's how IT can wrestle with the problem.