WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest advertising and marketing conglomerate, is buying the online advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million, the companies announced Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week that the mid-cycle, R2 release of Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit only. Some have extrapolated that to mean that Windows Vista will be the final 32-bit desktop OS from Microsoft. Not so, according to a company blog.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday accused Dell Inc. and its financial services affiliate of "bait and switch" advertising and failing to deliver on promised customer service.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
Windows Support tools -- the Swiss Army knife of your network toolbox.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/16/2007
Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect.
Plus: DOE data on the run; can a developer spec make for more secure applications?
Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2007
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses for its Vista operating system in the first 100 days of release.
Bill Gates confirmed that the next version of Windows Server, formerly code-named "Longhorn," will be called "Windows Server 2008."
Bill Gates unveiled a system builder-focused version of the forthcoming Windows Home Server and detailed industry support for WHS.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/15/2007
The rate of global software piracy has remained static for three years, but the cost to companies that make the programs is rising, the Business Software Alliance said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/15/2007
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2007
Plus: Web 2.0 leaks; Cisco's NAC problems are not a problem (we think).
Establish a baseline for performance easily and you'll know just how slow is slow.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/14/2007
Microsoft says that the open source software community is infringing on its patents, and wants the community to pony up for what it considers theft of its intellectual property, in the form of royalties.
Sun Microsystems commanded the spotlight at its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco last week. The company announced a new JavaFX product line and Java SE development kit, along with an Ericsson partnership (see this week's news for full stories).
- By John K. Waters
- 05/11/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2007
Windows Server virtualization, code-named "Viridian," is having some features stripped in order to meet its public beta shipping date in the second half of 2007 -- a ship date that recently slipped itself.
Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently code-named "Longhorn."
Microsoft may have slipped up Thursday afternoon and inadvertently posted the official name of its next server operating system, currently codenamed 'Longhorn.'