Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2007
Microsoft's SLP Services suite of programs are meant to help software developers and vendors control illegal use of their software.
Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants -- some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2007
Response Point is one of Microsoft's few hardware products, and is available only through OEMs
The high failure rates of IT departments to meet businesses' evolving needs are not exactly news in the IT community. Still, studies chronicling this situation never fail to shock. And so it is with a new study on IT effectiveness from business consulting firm Bain & Co.
MIT last week launched the Kerberos Consortium, according to a report from the university's News Office.
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2007
Software AG has added to its CentraSite governance solution products with a new CentraSite Governance Edition. It's part of a suite of solutions that Software AG offers to businesses deploying service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
IT administrators looking to move from the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail message server, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2005, are getting a helping hand from PostPath. The company released its One-Step Migration Methodology to help Exchange 5.5 users switch to the PostPath Server 3.0 e-mail and collaboration server.
A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Microsoft Corp. and its hardware partners are trying to bridge the divide between home computers and TV sets this holiday season with the release of several "media extenders."
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
IBM has rolled out new products to help companies become more efficient and handle bottlenecks in their business processes. The solutions add to IBM's arsenal of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture SOA offerings.
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.