Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/05/2007
Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting with information stored in traditional table-and-column fashion.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/03/2007
Tibco Software has issued a new release of its business process management (BPM) solution, called iProcess Suite 10.6.
North American software developers are expecting to devote less of their efforts toward developing for the Microsoft Windows operating system, with some of the slack being absorbed by Linux and niche operating systems, according to a survey conducted by Evans Data Corp.
Software company SAP AG acknowledged Tuesday that one of its units made "inappropriate downloads" of Oracle Corp. computer code for fixes and support documents, responding to a lawsuit filed by its rival.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/03/2007
Google remains undaunted in its quest to become a legal player in the battle to keep Windows Vista's desktop search subject to federal scrutiny.
Massachusetts has decided that Microsoft's latest format may meet its standards.
In Dayton, a state employee returns to work to find a $2,000 computer stolen. In Cleveland, someone walks into an unlocked office and takes a $2,200 laptop belonging to the state auditor's office.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/02/2007
A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/02/2007
In a move that could broaden the appeal of Microsoft's new Silverlight rich Internet application plug-in to both the .NET and open source communities, a group of developers has demonstrated Silverlight-based multimedia running on a Linux-based system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/02/2007
Vista Ultimate has been out more than half a year now, and several prominent Windows bloggers have been asking when more Extras are coming.
The iPhone hype makes it a natural target -- by scammers looking to sell Apple's first cell phone for a huge markup, and also by hackers looking to add to their bot networks.
Virtualization rocketed to the top of the gotta-have-it technology list a few years ago, primarily as a means of consolidating servers. But since that initial resurgence, vendors have been finding other applications for the technologies that provide a layer of abstraction between hardware systems and the software running on them.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/02/2007
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some experts have suggested that reuse -- the principal justification in most cost-benefit analyses for SOA -- might amount to just 10 percent.
Employees who work in Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) can breathe easy: they don't have the worst job in science. Just the sixth worst.
A hacker managed a rare feat Wednesday, successfully attacking a Web page within Microsoft's U.K. domain and replacing the page with several graphics related to Saudi Arabia.
After six months of unprecedented hype, thousands of people Friday will get their hands on the iPhone, the new cell phone that Apple Inc. is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2007
Microsoft is naming Kirill Tatarinov as its top business solutions executive, according to documents examined by RCP.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 06/29/2007
A Microsoft executive this week confirmed that Microsoft is close to offering a first step to help remedy the problem of Vista "downgrade rights," which posed complications for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2007
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007