Also: BrightStor backup flaw patched; selling security online; TomTom offroaded by virus.
The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Best Buy is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general after consumers complained they were denied deals found at the electronic retailer's Web site by store employees who pulled up a lookalike site that listed higher prices on some merchandise.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
At its annual Convergence conference this week, Microsoft will put into place the final pieces of its Dynamics ERP strategy by announcing a handful of new applications and partner programs aimed largely at small and medium-size companies (SMBs).
Plus Trend Micro flaw and patch, worm creator gets probation and anti-phishing methods prove ineffective.
Sweden's government presented plan to allow defense intelligence agency to monitor e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them -- a thorny issue that provoked a showdown with the U.S. government last year.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Microsoft this week began shipping the release candidate for Expression Blend, its new design tool for building Windows user interfaces using the .NET Framework 3.0’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/15/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Microsoft will buy Tellme Networks, which provides voice-enabled mobile search, directory assistance and computerized, speech-driven customer service hotlines.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. became the first computer maker to agree to pre-load Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live toolbar and make its search portal the main service on all new computers worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. became the first computer maker to agree to pre-load Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live toolbar
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Gates said Microsoft was helping set up computer learning centers in areas where demobilized paramilitary fighters are in dire need of job training.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Here's a simple way to display information in an IE window where HTA scripts might seem like overkill.
Plus: A worm solution in search of a problem; spotty Sun Telnet; more
Adobe announced it is shipping an alpha release of its "Apollo" cross-operating system Web applications platform, with commercial release scheduled for later this year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/22/2007
The United States generates more malicious computer activity than any other country
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
In a move that promises to facilitate interoperability of AJAX-based applications developed with different tools and frameworks, Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has joined the OpenAJAX Alliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/20/2007
In an attempt to pull its search efforts out of a slow spiral, Microsoft Wednesday formed a new group to focus on search and advertising, and named two executives to head it.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/22/2007