McAfee Inc., a leading maker of computer antivirus software, said Tuesday it is buying ScanAlert Inc. for $51 million, adding to its Internet security offerings a service intended to help consumers feel safer shopping online.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2007
A bill to extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes for seven years was approved 402-0 by the House Tuesday, less than two days before it was set to expire.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2007
Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
Microsoft Corp., seeking to expand in the medical sector, has agreed to acquire the assets of a privately held, Thailand-based health information system company, the software company said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard drives, said Monday it is shuttering one of two manufacturing facilities in Northern Ireland, resulting in a cut of 780 employees, about 1.5 percent of the company's global work force.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into revealing passwords.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
The software giant attributes strong first quarter to sales of Halo 3, Windows and Office.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2007
Windows Live OneCare could be among the root causes of Microsoft's ongoing problems with unwanted automatic updates.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/25/2007
BEA Systems said Thursday it is prepared to discuss a sale of the company to Oracle Corp. and other potential suitors at a price of $21 per share.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2007
It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc. -- the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2007
The management of services by IT departments is the subject of an August 2007 report by the Aberdeen Group. The report focuses on companies that use IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based approaches, which is a set of best practices for IT. The report specifically hones in on an ITIL discipline called IT Service Management (ITSM).
Microsoft added a new server to its lineup today, this one aimed at the growing mobile technology market.
With no other suitors stepping forward, business software maker Oracle Corp. is threatening to abandon its $6.7 billion bid for BEA Systems Inc. unless its smaller rival accepts the offer by Sunday evening.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2007
Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.
Cisco Systems Inc. is snapping up privately held Navini Networks Inc. for $330 million, extending the networking equipment maker's acquisition streak and providing the latest validation for the new wireless network technology called WiMax.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2007
Microsoft agreed to obey key parts of a 2004 antitrust ruling upheld by EU appeals court, cutting royalties and handing information over to open source developers.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/22/2007
Redmond reveals that it's working on a stripped-down version of the Windows kernel that would dramatically reduce its footprint.
Four states press federal court to extend by five years oversight of the software company that began in 2002 as part of a landmark antitrust settlement.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/22/2007
The European Commission said Monday it would take until Nov. 13 to examine Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick to review its proposals meant to eliminate antitrust concerns.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/22/2007
The Windows Automatic Update might be a patch management and change control issue, observers say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/19/2007