Although Carly Fiorina was sacked in one of the most humbling ousters in corporate America, her initial moves to reinvigorate Hewlett-Packard Co. are now paying off in HP's healthy profit and recent stock surge.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Dell Inc. on Thursday posted disappointing second-quarter earnings amid a regulatory probe.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Microsoft has released the first beta test version of its coming entry into the realm of blog publishing tools based on a familiar theme: "What you see is what you get" or WYSIWYG.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/15/2006
Google is issuing this warning to people who try to click on links to sites with spyware and other malicious code: "The site you are about to visit may harm your computer!"
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2006
Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2006
A recent high-profile Microsoft hire, brought onboard to work on Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Windows Live vision, has suddenly announced his pending departure, citing a pullback on plans he had signed on to implement.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/10/2006
As the competition for information management and control platforms heats up, IBM announced late this week that it will acquire content management vendor FileNet in a deal valued at $1.6 billion in cash.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/10/2006
Microsoft announced this week at the SpeechTEK 2006 conference in New York that it will integrate the full capabilities of its Speech Server 2007 into Office Communications Server 2007.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/08/2006
When Microsoft Corp. said it planned to begin checking for pirated copies of its Windows operating system using the method it set up to send people security fixes, even some of the company's traditional critics could sympathize.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/04/2006
A group of industry leaders this week announced a new draft specification aimed at simplifying IT administration across heterogeneous networked environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/03/2006
An unusual merger is adding loads of cash to St. Bernard Software's coffer, which will be used to build new products and buy up security vendors, said company CEO John Jones in an interview this week.
Taking its most expansive efforts yet to deal with its long, steady decline in subscribers, AOL is giving away e-mail accounts along with software previously available only to customers who paid as much as $26 a month.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/02/2006
Microsoft continued its management reorganization this week as it moved to realign responsibilities within its operating systems group to reflect newly minted Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's growing influence.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/02/2006
Are you the master of your Windows domain?
- By Doug Barney and Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2006
China is trying to tighten control over foreign investors in Internet ventures in a crackdown that a state newspaper said Friday could see some companies stripped of operating licenses.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/30/2006
Microsoft quietly announced this week that it will distribute Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP as a high priority update via Automatic Updates when the new browser version is complete.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/27/2006
AOL co-founder Steve Case has offered a qualified apology for his role in architecting the online company's disastrous combination with Time Warner Inc. "Yes, I'm sorry I did it," Case said on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" last Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/27/2006
Wall Street looks to grill Microsoft on spending this week, as profits drop. Google, on the other hand, keeps on rollin' in the green.
The company responsible for introducing millions of people to the Internet is poised to undergo a transformation that would likely accelerate its decline as a gatekeeper of access to the information superhighway.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/25/2006
Microsoft acquires Windows toolmaker Winternals and cult hero Russinovich, Firefox 2.0 betas and Microsoft pulls free new Private Folder tool.