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Hewlett-Packard Profit Rises on Cost-Cutting, Higher Revenue

HP bests Wall Street estimate of 49 cents per share by a nickel.

Gates Shows Off SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday touted the capabilities of the company's upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

IBM Develops New Tape Storage Technology

Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say a new method for cramming data onto magnetic tape will increase storage capacity at least 15 times, enough to squeeze the text from 8 million books onto a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape.

DOJ Wants to Extend Oversight of Microsoft to 2009

Citing Microsoft Corp.'s lapses under part of a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company's business practices until at least November 2009.

Entry-Level SAN Tool Bows

DataCore says it is shipping an entry-level version of its enterprise resource analysis, monitoring and reporting tool for Windows and storage area networks (SAN).

ISO: OpenDoc Ratified as Standard

In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard meant to enable documents from various desktop applications to be interchangeable.

Speech Server 2007 Enters Beta Test

Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall.

Cisco Forecast Concerns Analysts

Cisco Systems Inc., a leading maker of networking gear, is working to temper Wall Street's expectations for its current quarter.

Court: British Hacker Can Be Extradited to U.S

A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.

HP Unveils New Notebooks

Following in the footsteps of rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors.

Microsoft Debuts Windows CE Beta

While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped.

Microsoft Releases 3 Security Fixes for Windows, Exchange

As expected, Microsoft Corp. today released three new security bulletins today as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday announcement, with two of the patches being rated as "critical."

WinHEC To Feature Hybrid Hard Drive, Vista and Longhorn Betas

Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will introduce later this month a production-ready hybrid hard drive (HHD) that combines flash NAND memory with a large disk drive to dramatically speed system bootups, a Korean paper reports.

Microsoft Preps New Version of Windows CE

While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.

Microsoft Ships Prerelease of Compute Cluster Server

Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Gates Touts Vista's Gaming Features at E3

Gaming goes cross-platform, as Microsoft extends offerings to cell phones and upcoming Windows Vista.

Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Hospital Hack

A man pleaded guilty to charges of launching an attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some that belonged to the Department of Defense, and crippled a hospital's network.

Dell Warns 1Q Earnings Will Miss Mark

Amid stiffening competition, computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday its fiscal first-quarter results will miss earnings targets, blaming the shortfall on "pricing decisions."

Click Fraud Concerns Hound Google

John Thys still hasn't figured out how much his company has paid Google Inc. for bogus sales referrals caused by "click fraud" -- a sham aimed at a perceived weakness in the Internet search leader's lucrative advertising network.

N.Y. Lawmaker Sues Google Over Child Porn

A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.

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