Microsoft's sponsorship of technology contests and its partnerships with university research centers hopes to bear altruistic benefits, as well as loyalty to company's products.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2006
Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it has, at least slightly, delayed delivery of Office 2007, primarily for performance issues.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/29/2006
Microsoft Corp. is cutting 148 total U.S. sales jobs, as part of efforts to be more efficient, the company said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2006
Microsoft quietly began shipping Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 on Thursday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/29/2006
IBM is readying a major update to its Lotus Sametime collaboration software that the company says will include ties into Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Outlook.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2006
Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised -- a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Dell seeks to expand in the lucrative business of maintaining other companies' computers, plans to launch a new service plan that uses Google mapping technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
An alliance of businesses, colleges and federal crime fighters will combine their expertise at a new research center that will study the problems of identity theft and fraud.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
The Bush administration's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000 under a two-year agreement with the university that employs him and also does extensive business with the federal office he manages.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Computer Associates will ship in August a new database for storing configuration management information for its CA Service Management Accelerator product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2006
Microsoft Corp. has launched an online preview of its new Office business software, as part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Microsoft quietly announced Friday that its long-promised next-generation universal file system is either dead or just emerging from its pupa to take wing as a butterfly.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/27/2006
Intel Corp. introduced its latest microprocessor for server computers Monday, one of a trio of new chips the world's biggest semiconductor maker is counting on to regain market share lost to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Police in Britain and Finland have arrested three men suspected of conspiring to spread computer viruses through spamming, Metropolitan Police said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division,
and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Say goodbye soon to those pop-up ads from Claria Corp.'s oft-vilified ad-targeting technology. On July 1, Claria will stop running ads generated by its pioneering but highly criticized "adware" programs that monitor where people surf.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s best-known business software is for creating spreadsheets, documents and presentations, but the company is hoping to convince corporations that it also can be the one-stop shop for sophisticated communications technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Company's online preview of its new Office business software is part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft throws off the shroud on its unified communication strategy.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/25/2006