Microsoft's assault on a myriad of markets leaves third parties scrambling.
- By Carolyn April and Ed Scannell
- 01/01/2007
After a frenzied start, why is Live now laying low?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 01/01/2007
Resolution: Be hacker-safe.
Some answers are much more than a few mouse clicks away.
Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi and Marcia Kaufman explain Service Oriented Architecture in this book for "Dummies."
Despite patent filings, Microsoft Corp. isn't trying to claim all rights to
the Really Simple Syndication technology for notifying users of new entries
on their favorite news sites and Web journals, a lead product manager says.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
Microsoft Corp. has started linking users' search habits with other personal
information as it prepares to show more personalized advertisements.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser
will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe."
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
The company is interested in improving users' RSS experience, but not in claiming the technology as a whole, a Microsoft official said.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
E-commerce and online banking sites will be required to undergo extensive verification checks.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
Spammers' focus has shifted from open relays to infected "zombie" computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.'s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world's books, art and historical documents.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/20/2006
Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
As Windows Vista becomes more secure against known threats, it's what hackers and cybercriminals devise in the next generation of attacks that keeps Microsoft on its toes.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/10/2006
Google Inc., a company synonymous with searching the Internet, hopes to define far more of the world's computing experience with a helping hand from schoolchildren.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2006