Microsoft announced on Thursday that it intends to buy Parlano, a Chicago-based company it has already worked closely with on enterprise communications software.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/30/2007
A group of states led by California said in a court filing Thursday that ending oversight of Microsoft's business practices in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/30/2007
Try this scriptless approach to getting information on group memberships.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/29/2007
A public beta will be available in a few weeks
Although Microsoft didn't mention it in today's announcement about the upcoming release of Windows Vista SP1, the company confirmed today that one of the major changes will be to open up desktop search functionality to competition.
Windows XP's first service pack in nearly four years should be pushed out the door some time around mid-2008, according to Microsoft.
Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's delay-plagued next-generation server OS, is being delayed yet again.
If there's one feature in Windows Vista that's almost universally reviled, it's User Account Control, or UAC. But help may be on the way in the form of BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5.
Shares of EarthLink Inc. climbed more than 6 percent Tuesday after the Internet service provider said it would cut 900 jobs -- or about half its work force -- and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/28/2007
Internet domain registrars need to step up and help customers, not bot herders. Plus: rootkits grow up, and the GAO analyzes result of data breaches.
(No, that's not a typo....)
- By Greg Shields
- 08/27/2007
Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/27/2007
Microsoft Corp. will distribute free software to nonprofit groups to boost charity in India, a company official said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/27/2007
Outage unlikely to cause current users to give up on the Internet phone service and consider problems like these to be an acceptable inconvenience.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/24/2007
Whether it involves choice or price, freedom isn't free. This is especially true in the realm of computer software licensing, where the question isn't if one has to pay for program use and development but rather how, to whom and when.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/24/2007
IBM, following the kickoff of its IBM Federal SOA Institute in April, has announced a new certification and training program.
A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/24/2007
WSO2 has released two new open source products for developers of Web services applications. The company is currently offering its Web Services Framework for C (WSF/C) 1.0 product, as well as its Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) 1.0 product.
European Union regulators have charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging the memory chip designer demanded "unreasonable" royalties for its patents that were fraudulently set as industry standards.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2007
A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2007