Dell To Restate Earnings After Probe

Dell Inc. executives have finally wrapped up a yearlong internal investigation into accounting problems at the computer company, and the mistakes could end up costing them as much as $150 million. 08/17/2007

HP 3Q Profit Beats Wall Street Estimates

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s third-quarter sales and profit breezed past Wall Street's estimates as the technology bellwether continued to cash in on healthy sales of laptop computers and lucrative printing ink. Shares inched higher on a boosted financial forecast. 08/17/2007

SOA for Your Home

Peter Rhys Jenkins brought home several important points about service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- literally -- at this week's IBM SHARE conference in San Diego. Rhys Jenkins is senior integration solutions architect for IBM's worldwide WebSphere team. 08/17/2007

Airline Sues Google Over Keyword Ads

American Airlines is suing Google Inc. over the Internet company's sale of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks. 08/17/2007

Longtime Rivals IBM, Sun To Collaborate

Two longtime rivals in computing, IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., plan to cooperate on some server technologies, a move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard Co. 08/16/2007

Script Start Going Open Source

Entrigue Systems will release Script Start, a Windows logon scripting tool, free of charge to open source developers in September. The aim is to spur custom development of Script Start -- something for which its users have been clamoring, according to Entrigue President Jon McDonald. 08/16/2007

Google Distributing Sun Office Software

Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software. 08/16/2007

VMware's Stock Rises 76 Percent in Debut

VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend. 08/15/2007

Review: New IMac Tempts a Windows User

Apple Inc. has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star. 08/15/2007

OpenSolaris: Murdock Speaks on Project Indiana

Those who suggest that Sun Microsystems' Project Indiana is about making the Solaris operating system more Linux-like are missing the point, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief OS platform strategist. Headlines such as "Sun Hopes for Linux-like Solaris" and "Sun OpenSolaris To Become More Linux-like," drive him crazy. 08/15/2007

Continuous Team Builds

Microsoft is taking on Continuous Integration -- should you? 08/15/2007

Private Funds Needed for Safety Network

The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves. 08/15/2007

AMD Spec for Easier Multithread Development

Advanced Micro Devices yesterday published a proposed specification for a new class of hardware extensions designed to increase the performance of applications running in multicore environments. 08/15/2007

Citrix Buying VMware Rival for $500M

Citrix Systems is buying XenSource Inc. for $500 million, marking the second big deal this week in thte virtualization segment. 08/15/2007

Microsoft Completes AQuantive Move, Becomes Ad Agency

Redmond completes its $6 billion leap into advertising fray. 08/15/2007

They're Swinging for Office, But It's Hard To Knock Out the Champ

Office competitors land glancing blows as Redmond's brand recognition makes it tough to connect. 08/15/2007

Real Investment in Virtualization: VMware Goes Public

Wall Street feeding frenzy triggered by company's IPO. 08/15/2007

Virtualization Rules the Day at LinuxWorld

Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week. 08/14/2007

VMware Sets Much-Anticipated IPO at $29

Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago. 08/14/2007

Oracle 11g Ships, But New Features Cost Extra

The recently launched Oracle 11g database server is now shipping but today's release announcement came with a twist: Some of the new features come at an additional cost. 08/14/2007

Microsoft Releases 9 Patches

Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine. 08/14/2007

Exchange Service Pack Beta Released

Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack. 08/14/2007

Microsoft: Windows XP Product Keys Running Out

Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys. 08/13/2007

Microsoft Prototype FCC Device Broken

Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken. 08/13/2007

Microsoft Closes $6B Buyout of AQuantive

In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business. 08/13/2007

Mailbag: Crossing Over to Linux

Java Gains SOA Ground on .NET

The Monday Before Patch Tuesday

A Blogger Got It Wrong, Big Surprise

Ford Announces Pricing for Microsoft Sync System

Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that Sync, its in-car communication and entertainment system developed with Microsoft Corp., will cost $395 as an option when it debuts this fall on the Ford Focus, Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX. 08/10/2007

Microsoft's iPhone?

With Windows Home Server, Microsoft finally appears to be following Apple's marketing lead -- and it just might work. 08/10/2007

Illinois To Get Fastest Supercomputer

By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer. 08/09/2007

IBM Launches System To Track Medications

To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers. 08/09/2007

'Green' Tech Shops Have a Way To Go

The extremely air-conditioned computer farms known as data centers are the gas-guzzling jalopies of the technology world. Some require 40 or 50 times more power than comparably sized office space. 08/09/2007

Java and .NET Camps Split Over SOA

Developers are showing a trend toward favoring the use of Java vs. .NET when it comes to implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), according to analysis from Evans Data Corp. 08/09/2007

New Republic Blogger Questioned

A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true. 08/09/2007

AQuantive Approves Microsoft Buyout

Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. at a meeting in downtown Seattle Thursday. 08/09/2007

Microsoft To Release Six 'Critical' Patches Tuesday

Microsoft will be releasing a host of patches next week, including six "Critical" and three "Important" updates, in its monthly Patch Tuesday releases. 08/09/2007

Microsoft Makes Vista Fixes Public

Meanwhile, readers add their views on usability issues, and other matters. 08/09/2007

Like Action Packs? Better Start Studying

Microsoft decides to rein in partner perk, requiring tests on Nov. 30. 08/09/2007

Redmond Points to Cactus for Commerce Server

Partner inks key deal with Microsoft, based on vertical industry know-how. 08/09/2007

VS Beta 2: Bug Fixes, Final Features, Polish and Shine

The folks in Microsoft's Developer Division probably didn't mind the damp and drizzle of summer in Seattle as much this year, as they worked feverishly to polish the next iteration of the mothership. So far, it looks like the long hours paid off. Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2008 IDE and .NET 3.5 landed, fully loaded, the last week in July. 08/08/2007

Online Boom Boosts Cisco Profit, Shares

Cisco Systems Inc. shares jumped nearly 6 percent after the network equipment maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street's expectations and boosted its financial forecast. 08/08/2007

A Prickly Commerce Server Solution

Microsoft on Wednesday tried to clear up nagging questions about its Commerce Server roadmap and did. Kind of. 08/08/2007

Microsoft Wins 'Other' Patent Battle

Judge overturns jury decision in Alcatel-Lucent MP3 court filing. 08/08/2007

Ten Years Later, Steve Has Some Loot, Too

Apple makes some inroads, years after being bailed out by Redmond. 08/08/2007

Apple Debuts New iMacs

Apple Inc. updated its iMac computers Tuesday with a slimmer design, faster chips and glossy screens, hoping to further propel sales that already outpace the rest of the PC industry. 08/07/2007

Blogger Outed: Forbes Editor Is 'Fake Steve'

At long last, someone has cracked one of the technology world's biggest mysteries -- the identity of Fake Steve, a sharp-tongued blogger who had tech aficionados in stitches with a satiric diary purporting to be from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. 08/07/2007

Sun Microsystems To Reduce Work Force

Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a new restructuring plan, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 08/07/2007

IBM and Novell Team on Open Source App Server

IBM and Novell have formed a partnership around one of IBM's open source application server products. Under the agreement, Novell plans to offer worldwide product support for the IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE). 08/07/2007