Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 44 percent on strong sales of microprocessors, but the company's shares fell amid signs that fierce competition continues to push chip prices lower.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit edged up 7 percent, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of defective Xbox 360 video game consoles.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Google Inc. is expanding a test program that lets online advertisers buy ad space in newspapers, as the publishing industry struggles to offset business that has moved to the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Apple Inc.'s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Exotechnic Corp., a business software provider based in London, is using CodeMesh's solution to convert .NET code into Java. The effort is associated with Exotechnic's classification solution for the financial industry, which is designed to help financial firms comply with a new European Union (EU) directive.
- By Lauren Y. Dresnick
- 07/19/2007
PrismTech plans to launch the latest version of its quality of service (QoS) solution for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) on August 15. The solution, OpenSplice Version 3, is designed to ensure scalability and "real-time service delivery" in SOAs, according to an announcement issued by the company.
Google Inc.'s second-quarter profit climbed 28 percent, but it wasn't enough to fulfill Wall Street's high expectations for the Internet's search leader.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Dell, which has been expanding its distribution channels and offerings over the last several years, broadened its reach even further with the announcement that it's buying SilverBack Technologies.
Worldwide shipments of personal computers rose strongly in the second quarter due to growing demand in Asia and unexpected strength in the U.S., two research companies reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Microsoft, long stuck in third place behind Google and Yahoo in the search wars, suddenly boosted its share of the market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/18/2007
Windows Home Server, Microsoft's first foray into what it hopes will be a lucrative market for consumer-oriented servers, has been released to manufacturing.
Microsoft suddenly boosted its share of the search market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Sept. 17 the day Microsoft goes to court to challenge fines regulators imposed on company for anti-competitive business practices.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Tools vendor Infragistics today released NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 2, its latest set of presentation components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/16/2007
As Nicholas Negroponte stormed the developing world trying to drum up buyers for the innovative $175 computers designed by his One Laptop Per Child education nonprofit, he encountered a persistent obstacle: competition from Intel Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/16/2007
In just a couple of weeks, developers will be able to get their hands on the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft's new cross-platform browser media plug-in.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/16/2007
Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007
Yahoo Inc. took control of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. on Thursday, giving the slumping Internet portal a head start on rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a heated race to build more powerful marketing vehicles.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007