Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, Friday announced it has settled its long-running patent dispute with a small Virginia-based firm, averting a possible court-ordered shutdown of the BlackBerry system.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/03/2006
Microsoft Corp. is asking U.S. courts to compel Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp. and Novell Inc. to hand over correspondence with EU regulators on Microsoft's antitrust battle in Europe.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/03/2006
From the business wires this week: a file transfer client/server for heterogenous environments, SQL Server and Exchange backup solutions, and a site for SOA resources.
Google Inc. provided stock market analysts with more color about its secretive operations Thursday, painting a bright picture that appeared aimed at defusing growth concerns raised by the search engine leader's chief financial officer earlier this week.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/03/2006
Visual FoxPro developers got access to the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft's "Sedna" project this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/02/2006
Microsoft Corp. filed a formal complaint with EU antitrust regulators Thursday, alleging that the European Commission withheld documents and secretly colluded with Microsoft opponents shortly before the EU charged the company with failing to obey an earlier ruling.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/02/2006
The same Bush administration review panel that approved a ports deal involving the United Arab Emirates has notified a leading Israeli software company that it faces a rare, full-blown investigation over its plans to buy a smaller rival.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/02/2006
Let's start with what the much-hyped Microsoft Corp. project code-named Origami is not. It's not a music player designed to take on Apple Computer Inc.'s mega-popular iPod. And it's not a portable version of Microsoft's Xbox videogame console. And it won't -- at least not yet -- replace your cellular phone or your regular computer.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/02/2006
Microsoft is calling "speculation" a report that the company will have its highly anticipated grand gala to roll out Windows Vista in the first week of October.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/02/2006
Microsoft's Learning Group updates MCP numbers on its Web site; new titles are not included in MCP census.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/02/2006
Last year was a breakout time for Internet telephone services, with the number of U.S. subscribers more than tripling to 4.5 million and industry revenue surpassing $1 billion.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2006
America Online is taking advantage of a first-of-its-kind anti-"phishing" law in Virginia to sue three international groups that allegedly stole information from unsuspecting AOL users by sending e-mail that appeared to be legitimate messages from the company.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2006
Gateway Inc. has agreed to pay $47 million to rival computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. to settle a series of lawsuits over patents.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2006
Microsoft began shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of Exchange 12 on Wednesday, marking the beginning of its first widespread testing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2006
The board of the Internet's main oversight agency has approved a deal under which VeriSign Inc. must meet some conditions in order to raise fees for ".com" domain names.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2006
Do you have one of those wildly popular Dance Dance Revolution dance pads at home? Ever think of using it to do e-mail? That could happen if a technology demonstration at Microsoft on Tuesday escapes into the wild.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2006
Microsoft Corp. unveiled several new online technologies Tuesday, including early versions of an Internet classified service and a local search function that provides extremely detailed pictures of local streets.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2006
A Microsoft promotion to give customers who buy Windows Small Business Server 2003 a free upgrade to the Release 2 version kicks off on Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/28/2006
Reaching further into living rooms, Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday introduced a revamped Mac Mini computer that will let users access music, video and photos across their home networks.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2006
Microsoft announced Tuesday the opening of an office in Bosnia in order to promote its software on the Bosnian market.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2006