WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest advertising and marketing conglomerate, is buying the online advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million, the companies announced Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday accused Dell Inc. and its financial services affiliate of "bait and switch" advertising and failing to deliver on promised customer service.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2007
Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
Microsoft responded Monday to European Union allegations that it is overcharging rivals for information that would make their products work better with Windows. The software maker also repeated its request for more guidance on what regulators consider to be an acceptable price.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/23/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
The company said it earned $1.61 billion, or 27 cents per share, in the first three months of the year.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
The European Commission confirmed Tuesday it has opened an antitrust probe into Apple's iTunes and the way it works with the major music companies to sell songs online.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/03/2007
Microsoft announced it has expanded the company’s board by one seat -- from nine to 10 -- and elected Reed Hastings, 46, chairman and CEO of Netflix, to fill the new spot. Hastings has also been appointed to the finance committee.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/28/2007
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
At least two federal government agencies are refusing to upgrade their computers with Microsoft's Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/22/2007
IBM Corp. it has won a 10-year contract to manage the IT infrastructure of Indian mobile company Idea Cellular
- By The Associated Press
- 03/21/2007
Microsoft Tuesday began shipping the second service pack for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/14/2007
A leading analyst, who recently joined Microsoft to become a technology evangelist, quietly went back to his old job last week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/13/2007
Visual FoxPro 9 will be the end of the line for Microsoft's under-appreciated desktop database developer tool, the company formally told third-party developers Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/13/2007
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.
DST scramble is on as daylight savings time change occurs this weekend.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
Microsoft Wednesday announced it will release this month the public beta versions of Office Communications Server 2007, the company's Voice over IP and unified communications server, and Office Communicator 2007, Microsoft's unified communications client.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/08/2007