Toshiba Enters Portable Storage Market

Toshiba Corp. -- known among consumers for its televisions, laptops and DVD players -- will begin selling portable hard drive products as well, becoming the latest company seeking to capitalize on people's expanding collections of digital data. 04/16/2007

Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up

Word Problems Multiply

Flaws abound for the the latest incarnation of Microsoft's word processor. 04/16/2007

Mac OS Can Be Late, Too!

Leopard gets bumped to the back burner for iPhone. 04/16/2007

Dissing DNS

Microsoft doesn't shrink away from the problem, this time. 04/16/2007

Making a Build

A review of Vincent Maraia's book on the best practices for Microsoft's software configuration. 04/15/2007

Google To Buy DoubleClick for $3.1B

Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc. 04/13/2007

Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B

The boards of both companies have approved the takeover, which is expected to close by the end of the year. 04/13/2007

Microsoft Warns of New DNS Attacks

Yesterday, Microsoft published a new security advisory warning of a new spate of attacks targeting a DNS vulnerability in its Windows server operating systems. 04/13/2007

New Word, Windows Vulnerabilities Surface

Redmond this week was alerted to a spate of new security flaws in its vulnerability-ridden Word -- only this time, the victim is Microsoft's brand-new Word 2007 application. 04/13/2007

Apple Delays Launch of Operating System

Apple Inc. said it won't be shipping its next-generation operating system in June as planned, saying it had to divert resources from the project so that it could launch its highly anticipated iPhone on time. 04/13/2007

TJX Thieves Had Time To Steal, Trip Up

For at least 17 months, someone had free rein inside TJX Cos.' computers. Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and transmit account data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards. 04/13/2007

Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet

Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over. 04/13/2007

Vonage Chief Executive Steps Down

Vonage CEO Michael Snyder resigned Thursday as the troubled Internet phone company reported weak preliminary first-quarter results and announced a restructuring plan that includes an unspecified number of jobs cuts. 04/12/2007

Report Reveals AJAX on the Rise

There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Virtualization Products Face Delays

Several Microsoft virtualization products are seeing their shipping dates slip. 04/12/2007

IBM Develops Chip-Stacking Technique

IBM has found a way to connect chips inside products ranging from cell phones to supercomputers, an advance that promises to prolong battery life in wireless devices and eventually speed data transfers between the processor and memory chips in computers, the company said Thursday. 04/12/2007

New Opera Browser Shows Glance of 9 Favorites

The latest version of Opera's Web browser lets visitors see mini versions of their nine favorite sites at a glance. Click on any thumbnail to load the full site. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Foresees More Suits in Japan

A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Foresees More Lawuits in Japan

A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company, an executive said Thursday. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Issues ASP.NET Glitch Fix

Microsoft has released a public hotfix patch to address a number of ASP.NET 2.0 compilation issues, according to Microsoft Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie. 04/12/2007

VoIP Market Not Hit by Vonage Patent Woe

The legal trouble threatening Vonage Holdings Corp. doesn't yet appear to be rippling across the Internet phone industry, a stark contrast to last year's BlackBerry patent dispute that spooked existing and would-be users of the popular e-mail device. 04/12/2007

Microsoft Patches Flaws, Pushes Forefront

It's mixed-message irony for Redmond as it describes security holes and security solutions in the same week. 04/12/2007

Nokia, Qualcomm Continue Licensing Talks

Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. said Tuesday they expect no disruptions to consumers as the wireless industry heavyweights try to settle differences over licensing fees. 04/11/2007

New NAS Hits the Market

Storage vendor SMC Networks has unveiled the premiere products in a new line of storage servers aimed at small and medium-sized businesses and homes. 04/11/2007

Palm To Develop Linux-Based Products

Smart phone maker Palm Inc. said Tuesday it will use a new platform based on Linux to help the company compete better. 04/11/2007

User Management Program Adds Security Upgrades

Lieberman Software Corp. has upgraded its flagship Windows management product, User Manager Pro, with a number of security and other enhancements and christened it User Manager Pro Suite. 04/11/2007

SaaS Report: How To Partner on SaaS

A new white paper from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), titled "Channels for the New SaaS Industry," describes the kind of partnership model that's needed in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. 04/11/2007

Take-Two CFO Out After Shareholder Coup

The chief financial officer of beleaguered video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. announced his resignation Monday, less than two weeks after a shareholder revolt that ousted the CEO and several board members. 04/10/2007

DVD Security Group Says It Fixed Flaws

The group behind security measures for next-generation DVDs said Monday it has fixed a leak that allowed hackers to discover the keys for unlocking movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. 04/10/2007

Microsoft Patches 4 Critical Windows Vulnerabilities

As expected, Microsoft Corp. today published five new security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in its Windows and Microsoft Content Management Server products. 04/10/2007

Data on Millions of Georgians Lost

A computer disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing. 04/10/2007

Disk With Data on 2.9M Georgians Lost

A disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday. 04/10/2007

Judge Tosses Sun, Unisys Suit Over Memory Chip Price

A federal judge has tossed out an antitrust lawsuit filed against seven memory chip makers, but left the door open for the complaining customers to revive the case with more detailed price-fixing allegations. 04/10/2007

India High-Tech Industry Out of Workers

At the heart of the sprawling corporate campus, in a hilltop building overlooking the immaculately shorn lawns, the sports fields and the hypermodern theater complex, young engineers crowd into a classroom. They are India's best and brightest, with stellar grades that launched them into a high-tech industry growing at more than 25 percent annually. And their topic of the day? Basic telephone skills. 04/09/2007

AMD Sees 1Q Revenue Miss

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Monday it expects its first-quarter revenue to miss Wall Street expectations, weighed by lower prices and slumping sales, and announced plans to restructure its business model. 04/09/2007

Management and Governance Key to SOA, Report Finds

Companies working to tie together their disparate software and database systems using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) appear to be having mixed results, according to a report issued by the research firm Aberdeen Group. 04/09/2007

Microsoft Launches Enterprise Security Ad Campaign

Flashy Forefront message suggests that security is easy to deploy across the enterprise. 04/09/2007

Gold Partner Releases New Option for Exchange E-Mail Hosting

Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), a Microsoft certified gold partner, recently announced the launching of SolutionOne, a managed hosting service for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 messaging environments. 04/09/2007

ACS Releases New Option for Exchange E-Mail Hosting

Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) recently announced the launching of SolutionOne, a managed hosting service for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 messaging environments. 04/09/2007

SDK for Windows Home Server Released

Microsoft has announced the availability of a software development kit (SDK) for its first-ever consumer-oriented server, Windows Home Server (WHS). 04/09/2007

Google, French News Agency Settle Suit

Agence France-Presse, a global news agency based in Paris, has settled its lawsuit against Google Inc. and will allow the Internet search leader to post news and photos from AFP journalists. 04/09/2007

How Do Retirements Like FoxPro, VB6 Affect You?

Tell us how you're dealing! 04/09/2007

Patch Happy

Microsoft goes on a patching binge. 04/09/2007

Lost in Space

Former Microsoft developer takes to the final frontier. 04/09/2007

A McDonald's Moment: Over 100 Million Sold

The iPod hits a milestone. 04/09/2007

Injunction To Bar New Vonage Customers

Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. will be barred from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., under an injunction ordered Friday. 04/06/2007

Microsoft: Rivals' Royalty Fees Are Fair

European Union regulators want Microsoft Corp. to give rivals access -- at little or no cost -- to information that would help their products work better with Windows, according to a published report Thursday. 04/05/2007

China's Lenovo Plans PC Push

Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group plans to launch a global unit to promote sales to individuals and small businesses, a company spokesman said Thursday, as the company tries to establish itself as an international competitor. 04/05/2007

Windows Users Not Quite Ready for Vista

A Harris Interactive survey shows most users not as willing to upgrade their current systems to install Vista, at least not yet. 04/05/2007