UCLA breach latest among several universities to have student records hacked. Breach went undetected for more than a year, affects about 40,000 students.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/17/2006
Worm hits some systems using Norton Antivirus, even though company issued patch back in May.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/15/2006
Microsoft said this week it has begun a private beta for its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, sending it out to 2,500 IT professionals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive programs from the Internet. Outside researchers commend the retooled approach -- yet they also say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
Microsoft will sell 90 million copies of Windows Vista in calendar 2007 – 35 million of those in the U.S. alone – according to a new economic study by IDC.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/11/2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
As businesses start to kick the tires on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, and consumers get ready to gear up for Vista in particular, Microsoft understandably is preparing for the inevitable onslaught of support calls.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2006
Dell and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the PC maker is shipping a unified, networked storage system based on the software giant's Unified Data Storage Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2006
Novell Inc. announced this week that its edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will offer support for Microsoft's Office Open XML format by the time the consumer release of Office 2007 ships at the end of January.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2006
Microsoft announced Tuesday it is shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/05/2006
Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first of four components in its new Expression Studio suite and predicts that the other three will ship in the second quarter of next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/05/2006
Companies that help businesses track and search their e-mails and other electronic data are experiencing a surge of interest in the wake of federal rule changes that clarify requirements to produce such evidence in lawsuits.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2006
Is there a better way to to deliver a working product on schedule and under budget? A review of Mike Cohen's "Agile Estimating and Planning."
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 12/01/2006
U.S. companies will need to know more about where they store e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents
- By The Associated Press
- 11/30/2006
While Microsoft is busy celebrating the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, a posse of partners also lined up to announce support for the new products. Unfortunately, many of those third-party announcements are long on promises and short on details, including specifics as to when those new and updated products will actually reach market.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/30/2006
Novell Inc. has appointed Susan Heystee, recently named vice president and general manager for Global Strategic Partners, to manage the interoperability relationship it announced with Microsoft in early November.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/30/2006
Calling it the biggest launch in the company's history, Microsoft on Thursday formally launched the business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system and Office 2007 desktop applications suite at the Nasdaq market site in New York.
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Some of the largest companies in the United States are facing off in a Supreme Court case over gas pedals, with one side hoping the justices will put the brakes on an out-of-control patent system.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
International Business Machines Corp. settled a federal class-action lawsuit Wednesday, agreeing to pay a total of $65 million to 32,000 technology workers who claimed the company illegally withheld overtime pay
- By The Associated Press
- 11/26/2006