Court Continues Microsoft-Novell Antitrust Case

Two antitrust claims brought against Microsoft Corp. by Novell Inc. can proceed, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. 10/16/2007

Distributed Computing Studies Get Google, IBM Support

Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies. 10/16/2007

BEA Declines Oracle's Offer

EA To Acquire Game Maker

Discovery Channel Invests in Web Property

RICO Suit Against Microsoft To Continue

Court Rejects Microsoft, Best Buy Appeal

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft and a unit of Best Buy to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violation of racketeering laws. 10/15/2007

Hitachi: Hard Drives Are Getting Better

Multimedia stockpilers need not worry about laptops, digital video recorders or portable music players hitting a storage capacity ceiling any time soon. 10/15/2007

The Non-Virtuous Patch-Hack Circle

Who's Right, Steve or Martha?

Sun Makes Virtual Play

HP Moves to SaaS

HP Unveils Its SaaS Strategy

HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy. 10/12/2007

Oracle Offers $6.7B for BEA Systems

Pouncing on an opportunity to add another weapon in an increasingly bitter business software battle, Oracle Corp. has offered to buy struggling rival BEA Systems Inc. for $6.7 billion in its latest shot aimed at another industry leader, SAP AG. 10/12/2007

Agency Seeks To Quell Cell Phone Rumors

An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus. 10/12/2007

OSS Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros

Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances. 10/12/2007

Microsoft Adds Web Invitation Tool

Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services. 10/12/2007

Are Patches Leading to Exploits?

In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday." 10/12/2007

October RCP: Feeling Good About Health Care

New effort called HealthVault. 10/12/2007

Editor's Note

Microsoft Chases Security Flaws

Fixes to fixes. 10/12/2007

Reader Feedback Friday: Microsoft and Business Intelligence

"Microsoft already has better products." 10/12/2007

Security Flaw Affects XP, Windows Server 2003, IE7

Recently discovered security hole in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 uses Internet Explorer (IE) 7 as the attack vector; fix is coming. 10/11/2007

You Can Never Be Too Agile

Google Continues Its Focus on Social Networking

Gartner Says IT Needs To Better Manage Risk

Virtualization Giveth and Virtualization Taketh Away

More Overlooked Windows Server Features

Included: network speed upgrades, Group Policy enhancements. 10/11/2007

Fiorina Joins New Fox Business Channel

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co., has signed on as a contributor with Fox News' soon-to-launch business news channel, the media company announced Tuesday. 10/10/2007

China Jails Woman for Internet Lies

Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday. 10/10/2007

Rights Group Condemns China Net Controls

An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom. 10/10/2007

Google Shares Hit Landmark

Another Personal Data Spill

Microsoft May Put Health Records at Risk

More News for MSNBC

VMware Trots Out Upgrade

New pricing targeted to SMBs. 10/10/2007

Ballmer Making Patent Noise Again

Microsoft aims its patent guns at Red Hat. 10/10/2007

Study: Google Gets Bulk of World Search

Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates. 10/09/2007

Microsoft Pulls One Fix From 'Patch Tuesday'

Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected. 10/09/2007

2007 Ig Nobel Awards Presented

SAP To Acquire Business Objects

Patch Tuesday Sees Four Critical Patches

IBM and Google Fund University Programs

Will Microsoft Join in the Big-Money BI Buyouts?

SAP, which Redmond increasingly competes with, buys Business Objects. 10/09/2007

Top 10 Overlooked Windows Server 2008 Features, Part 2

On Friday, we presented the first installment of the "Top 10 Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008." Today is part two. These are technologies included in Windows 2008 that you may not have heard much about, but could make your life as a Windows IT pro a lot easier. 10/08/2007

SAP To Acquire Business Objects

Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion. 10/08/2007

Seven Patches Piping

Protect Your Exec

XP Crackdown

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