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More than you bargained for?
03/08/2007
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Researchers show off their new toys.
03/08/2007
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Readers speak on the usefulness of the utility.
03/08/2007
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News
Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That's intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department Tuesday.
03/07/2007
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Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
03/07/2007
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The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business.
03/07/2007
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Best Buy is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general after consumers complained they were denied deals found at the electronic retailer's Web site by store employees who pulled up a lookalike site that listed higher prices on some merchandise.
03/07/2007
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Most people just grumble and hit delete, but when Gordon Dick received a spam message advertising Internet services, he fought back.
03/07/2007
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista -- as promised.
03/07/2007
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Visual Studio gets an update.
03/07/2007
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When it comes to copyright, Google may be crossing the line.
03/07/2007
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The virtualization experts talk back.
03/07/2007
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News
An update still hasn't resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system.
03/06/2007
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Novell quietly announced Monday it is shipping an Office OpenXML/Open Document Format translator that works with its own edition of the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite.
03/06/2007
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that its FRx Software subsidiary will ship a significant update to its budgeting and planning tool for organizations this spring.
03/06/2007
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Microsoft shows off cutting-edge software inventions at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department.
03/06/2007
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It's latest grievance: the price of MS communications protocols.
03/06/2007
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The latest consensus from Symantec is out.
03/06/2007
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The search giant keeps going, going.
03/06/2007
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Security prodders turn up zeros.
03/06/2007
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday it will restate its financial statements as far back as fiscal 2004 because of past stock option reporting errors and it anticipates a $250 million reduction in previous earnings. Chairman and Co-CEO Jim Balsillie is stepping aside as chairman.
03/05/2007
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This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
03/05/2007
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Speech coding technology used in several Microsoft Corp. applications does not infringe on an Alcatel-Lucent SA patent, a federal judge decided Thursday.
03/05/2007
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A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
03/05/2007
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New study says that we're running out of storage for all that online information.
03/05/2007
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Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday.
03/05/2007
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
03/05/2007
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Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation.
03/05/2007
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Wal-Mart fires systems technician for recording of phone conversations and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
03/05/2007
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.
03/05/2007
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A cautionary tale.
03/05/2007
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You know you're addicted to Internet games if...
03/05/2007
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Here comes the newest version.
03/05/2007
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AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, is hiring International Business Machines Corp. to perform some of its personnel chores in a $217 million deal that will run for 7 1/2 years, the companies said Friday.
03/02/2007
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Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals.
03/02/2007
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Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries "themselves."
03/02/2007
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A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.
03/02/2007
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Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.
03/01/2007
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Foley on Microsoft
Sometimes, the unfashionable choice is smart the smart one.
03/01/2007
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Company known for IT automation suite reaches out.
03/01/2007
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In-Depth
The company appears as if it wants to work cooperatively with competitors.
03/01/2007
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Steelray Software announced it is shipping two add-ins -- one updated and one new -- for Microsoft Project.
03/01/2007
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Security Advisor
Your DNS is a sweet spot for hackers who want to compromise your network; learn to protect it.
03/01/2007
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News
For the first time in 22 years, daylight saving time starts three weeks sooner and ends one week later than normal. Although the consequences from an earlier "spring forward" and later "fall back" doesn’t represent the level of threat imagined with Y2K, there are enough little snafus and "gotchas" to keep any IT manager busy for the next couple of weeks.
03/01/2007
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Desktop Authority exerts the maximum level of control with a minimal amount of effort.
03/01/2007
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In-Depth
Even if you never have to use these, it's good just to know they're there.
03/01/2007
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In-Depth
The updated interface and raft of new features in Office 2007 will eventually make users more productive, but getting to that point is a struggle.
03/01/2007
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Associate OEM distributor graduates to Authorized status.
03/01/2007
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The work force at International Business Machines Corp. grew 8 percent in 2006, with most of the rise coming in India, where the technology company has been on a hiring binge in recent years.
03/01/2007
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The more, the merrier.
03/01/2007