Microsoft, Nortel Put “Unified” in Unified Communications

I'll take "IT Buzzwords" for $200, Alex. 01/18/2007

Intel Profit Drops 39 Percent, Still Beats Estimates

Intel's Q4 profit plunged 39 percent, reversing a painful price war with much-smaller rival AMD. 01/17/2007

Germany Urged to Cut Copyright Fees on Electronics

Electronics makers on Wednesday urged Germany to press ahead with cutting copyright fees levied on consumer devices such as computers, printers and scanners. 01/17/2007

Microsoft Hires WebSphere Architect

Don Ferguson, whom some observers refer to as the "Father of WebSphere," has joined Redmond as a Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy in the Office of the CTO, according to statements posted online. 01/17/2007

'Longhorn' To Be Officially Dubbed...

It's official. Well, sort of. Windows enthusiast site ActiveWin.com reported this week that an unnamed Microsoft official has confirmed the final name for "Longhorn" server. 01/17/2007

Monitoring Your Thirst

This doesn't look nerdy at all. 01/17/2007

Lucid8 a Triple Exchange Threat

The company's DigiVault enters the e-mail discovery scene. 01/17/2007

IE7: Over 100 Million Served

The latest version is second only to IE6 in the number of users. 01/17/2007

A Real Vista Space Shot

Win a contest? Get flung into the skies! 01/17/2007

100 Million Copies of IE7 Installed

Microsoft recently announced that, as of January 8, 100 million users have installed Internet Explorer 7.0. 01/16/2007

Microsoft in Alliance with Teradata

Microsoft and NCR’s Teradata division announced Monday an alliance meant to optimize interoperability between Microsoft’s business intelligence solutions and Teradata’s Enterprise Data Warehouse product. 01/16/2007

Supreme Court Rejects IBM Employee Suits

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider an appeal brought by a group of IBM Corp. employees who accused the company of age discrimination when it altered its pension plan. The lawsuit could have cost the company $1.4 billion. 01/16/2007

HP CEO Feelin' Fine, Low-Level Gumshoe Feeling Low

A lackey bites the dust. 01/16/2007

Jobs Not Off the Hook Yet

Now it's the feds at his heels. 01/16/2007

Dotster Found its Dots

Too bad they're stuck in Internet limbo. 01/16/2007

AMD Shares Plunge 10 Pct.

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell more than 9.5 percent Friday, a day after the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker said plunging computer-chip prices hacked into the company's fourth-quarter results. 01/15/2007

Investigator Pleads Guilty in HP Probe

Federal prosecutors scored their first victory in the investigation of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ill-fated boardroom spying probe Friday, when a low-level private investigator pleaded guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges. 01/15/2007

U.N. Not Eying Internet Control

The United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the U.N. telecommunications agency said Friday. 01/15/2007

Feds Probing Stock Options Grant to Jobs

Federal investigators are still examining whether any of the accounting shenanigans at Apple Inc. rose to the level of criminal behavior, even though the company has cleared CEO Steve Jobs and all current executives of any wrongdoing in an internal stock options backdating probe, according to a person close to the matter. 01/15/2007

Belgian Government Site Hacked

The Web site of Belgium's Defense Ministry was hacked Sunday by a group of Turkish nationalists, news reports said. 01/15/2007

Video Emerges as Key to Cisco's Growth

So far, when it comes to making money, the online video explosion is mostly about potential. Studios selling TV shows and movies for download, and Web sites like YouTube that link ads to user-generated content, stand to reap billions from the Internet's hottest trend. 01/15/2007

Synnex Reports Strong Growth in 2006

Synnex Corp., a global IT supply chain services company, reported financial results for fiscal 2006 this month that included 12.5 percent revenue growth and 29.7 percent growth in net income from continuing operations. 01/15/2007

Laplink Eases End User Vista Moves

Got some files you need to migrate? 01/15/2007

New Mac Office Due

The universal version is scheduled to come later this year. 01/15/2007

Microsoft Has a New Grid Friend

SGI makes Windows an option. 01/15/2007

A Wise Way To Upgrade

Moving to Vista? Altiris can help. 01/15/2007

SGI To Resell Windows in Grid Computing Systems

Microsoft and SGI announced Thursday that they have inked a deal that makes Redmond's high-performance computing (HPC) server an option for the hardware maker's grid computing systems. 01/11/2007

Altiris Tool Creates Vista Installations

Altiris announced it is shipping Wise Installation Studio 7.0, an updated tool designed for creating installations for Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows operating systems and Windows Mobile 5 devices. 01/11/2007

Developers Get Exam Discounts Assist

Microsoft is pushing to get more developers with MCAD and MCSD.NET titles to upgrade their certifications to the new-generation MCPD, by providing discounts on the MCPD upgrade exams. 01/11/2007

First Windows Vista Exam Now Live

Exam 70-620 now available, as well as two new-generation exams for SharePoint implementers. 01/11/2007

AutomatedQA Adds Vista Support

AutomatedQA, the Las Vegas-based testing-tools maker, has upgraded its flagship TestComplete product to include support for Windows Vista applications. The newly released TestComplete 5 also supports Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 Web testing. 01/10/2007

Laplink's PCmover To Aid Vista Migration

Data portability stalwart Laplink says it will ship its PCmover for Windows Vista package in time for commercial availability of Vista later this month. 01/10/2007

Defense Workers Warned About Spy Coins

EDITOR'S NOTE: After this story was published, the DOD issued a statement saying that the report about the spy coins was flawed and the incidents never happened. 01/10/2007

Impressive Growth Ahead for Application Server Market

SED Becomes Full-Fledged Microsoft OEM Distributor

SED International Inc., a distributor of computer systems, consumer electronics and wireless devices, on Wednesday announced its jump in status among Microsoft's exclusive group of U.S. distributors. 01/10/2007

Investigator Faces Charges in HP Spying Probe

A private investigator who had a role in HP's boardroom spying scandal was charged Wednesday with federal identity theft and conspiracy charges. 01/10/2007

NY AG Probes Intel Marketing Practices

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating possible violations of state and federal antitrust laws by Intel Corp. 01/10/2007

UPDATED: Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name

Apple Inc.'s much-ballyhooed iPhone was unveiled this week after 30 months and millions of dollars in top-secret development. But the sleek new iPod-cell phone combination could wind up costing the company a lot more. 01/10/2007

Microsoft Patches 4 Holes, 3 Critical

Microsoft Corp. released three security patches for Office and one for Windows on Tuesday, fixing holes that could let an outsider take control of an unwitting victim's computer. 01/10/2007

Jobs vs. Dell in Dueling Trade Show Keynotes

By most measures, Apple Computer Inc.'s Steve Jobs famous unveilings in front of staunch loyalists would be a tough act to follow. Imagine then, going head-to-head with the legendary CEO. That's what Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc. and a legend himself, was up against Tuesday. 01/10/2007

Dynamics CRM 'Titan' Goes to TAP Partners

Microsoft announced this week it is previewing the next major release of its Dynamics CRM product, which is codenamed "Titan," with new features to help enable software-as-a-service (SaaS) scenarios. 01/10/2007

Time To Patch, You're Already a Day Late!

Better hop to it. 01/10/2007

Gates Foundation Cheap Shot or Deserved Blow?

Reporters smell something funny about the foundation's investments. 01/10/2007

Teflon Steve

Guilty or not, the world needs Steve Jobs. 01/10/2007

Macworld: Big on Consumer, Light on Enterprise

Wasted opportunity? 01/10/2007

Universal Version of Mac Office Coming

Microsoft plans to deliver a "universal" version of Office for the Mac in the second half of this year, the company announced Tuesday at Apple's Macworld Conference in San Francisco. 01/09/2007

Microsoft Issues Critical Patches for Office, Windows

Microsoft Corp. started the new year by announcing four new patches that address not-so-new vulnerabilities in several flavors of its Office and Windows products. 01/09/2007

Microsoft and Garmin Aim To Hit the SPOT

At the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced that its Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) group has released its MSN Direct navigation services. 01/09/2007

Bluespring Hopes To Ride SharePoint Coattails to Further Growth

BPM software specialist Bluespring Software this month reported 277 percent revenue growth for the fourth quarter of 2006, and company officials predict a strong 2007 in part from the coattails of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. 01/09/2007

Cisco Shifts Senior Executives to India's Tech Hub

Wim Elfrink's climb up the corporate ladder has taken him from Holland to France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. 01/09/2007