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.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/07/2007
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/07/2007
Microsoft on Tuesday officially released several updates for Windows Vista -- fixes that were initially released to the public last week, before being pulled down.
How to get less annoyed at Shutdown in Windows 2003; plus, disabling
write caching in XP.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 08/07/2007
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/07/2007
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).
Terrorists and other criminals could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure like oil refineries, power plants and factories, a researcher said Saturday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/06/2007
Plus: MPACK goes wild; Trojans on YouTube; 419 scammers busted in Holland; insecure SSL v2.
Microsoft's Web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), continues to gain against longtime leader Apache, and could end up surpassing it if current trends continue.
Microsoft has released the first CTP of Visual Studio Team System "Rosario."
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/06/2007
Vista no longer includes it as a native tool, so you'll have to go back to the original source if you're inclined to still use it for admin work.
- By Greg Shields
- 08/06/2007
VMware has the latest entry in the growing market for software that allows Windows to be run on a Mac.
Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
Billionaire Carlos Slim said he doesn't care if he is the world's richest man and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
Anticipated improvements to the way polices are set up and managed in one or more instances did not make it into the second CTP of SQL Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/03/2007
Microsoft Corp. will test a free, advertising-supported version of Works, an already inexpensive package of word processing, spreadsheet and other programs, but would not say whether it is exploring a similar Web-based suite.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
In a victory for Microsoft's open source efforts, Massachusetts has decided to accept Microsoft's Office file format as sufficiently open to allow it to compete with other office productivity suites.
The next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac platform has been delayed until next year.
It's a service-oriented architecture (SOA) world -- well, not quite for everyone yet. However, what happens when IT departments increasingly use SOA to expose data and applications as services? The next step might be to begin collecting and using those services to create something useful.