Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer compared the company's search technology to a precocious toddler -- one who would eventually grow up to rival nemesis Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2007
The Windows Automatic Update might be a patch management and change control issue, observers say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/19/2007
Shares of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares fell more than 3 percent Friday after reporting a loss of nearly $400 million for the third quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2007
Google Inc.'s YouTube said Thursday it has launched a version of the video-sharing site in Taiwan in its latest push to expand in foreign markets.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2007
Google Inc.'s third-quarter profit soared 46 percent to hurdle the enormous expectations that have elevated the Internet search leader's stock price by more $100 during the past month.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2007
The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.
EBay Inc.'s Skype division has let down eBay executives, but they're confident they can reorganize the troubled Internet phone unit and make it more useful to people outside of the online marketplace.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2007
Upgrade exam for MCSEs contains material based on pre-release version of Windows 2008, according to Microsoft.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/18/2007
Computer shipments rose this summer at the fastest rate in nearly two years, and Hewlett-Packard Co. pulled still farther ahead of Dell Inc. as the world's largest maker of PCs, two technology research firms reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2007
Intel Corp.'s soaring sales of microprocessors helped the company overcome flat prices for those chips and reap a 43 percent boost in profits in the third quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/17/2007
Because of a hiccup in its hardware unit, IBM Corp. stock took a hit even though the technology bellwether reported a 6 percent rise in earnings and exceeded Wall Street forecasts. Investors were also sorting out how much IBM is exposed to woes in the financial industry.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/17/2007
Microsoft's "Unified Communications" suite of products aims to blur the distinction between electronic and voice communications.
Apple Inc.'s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X "Leopard," will be available Oct. 26 for $129, and Apple's online store is taking pre-orders, the company said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2007
Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.
Two antitrust claims brought against Microsoft Corp. by Novell Inc. can proceed, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2007
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft and a unit of Best Buy to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violation of racketeering laws.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/15/2007
Multimedia stockpilers need not worry about laptops, digital video recorders or portable music players hitting a storage capacity ceiling any time soon.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/15/2007
Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/12/2007
An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007