Microsoft is bending its Office franchise toward netbooks and is developing packages that are unique to that market, according to …
Dell records 48 percent drop in net income
Dell's net income dropped 48 percent for the fourth quarter, the company said Thursday, as it also announced it is …
Downadup worm may hammer Southwest Airlines URL March 13
Computers infected by the Downadup worm will “phone home” to several legitimate URLs this month, including one owned by Southwest …
NAC: Now? Or Never?
Today's highly mobile workforce, along with a plethora of new tech gadgets and access to the Internet from anywhere, has …
Most Oracle database shops don’t mandate security patch use
In a pair of online surveys that were jointly conducted between May and August of last year by the International …
New smartphone controls may appeal to IT managers
Research in Motion Ltd. is hoping that the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server will help convince skeptical IT …
Netbooks: All About the New Ultraportables
The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless …
Appliances big opportunity for Linux, Novell says
The modularity and licensing of Linux makes it well suited as the platform of choice for the burgeoning software appliance …
Apple announces Safari 4
Apple has announced the public beta of Safari 4, the web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine …
Server revenue sees big drop in Q4, IDC says
Worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover …
AMD demonstrates new six-core server processors
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday said it demonstrated the first working models of Istanbul chips, the company's upcoming line of …
Microsoft has big growth plans even as economy limps
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday that the weak economy and declining PC sales would continue to challenge …
HP to distribute, support Sun’s Solaris
HP and Sun Microsystems — fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales — unveiled an expanded partnership that will …
Microsoft wraps up Vista SP2 RC
Microsoft announced it has wrapped up a near-final version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2), and has posted it …
Apple delivers Safari 4 public beta
Apple Inc launched the public beta of Safari 4 and touted the new browser as the fastest on the planet. …
Attackers exploit unpatched Excel vulnerability
For the second time in the past five days, security researchers are warning that hackers are exploiting a critical unpatched …
Ballmer: Azure ready for release by end of year
Microsoft Corp. plans to release its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform before the end of the year, CEO Steve Ballmer said. …
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay. Linux provides free and open access to …
Microsoft, Citrix join forces against VMware
Microsoft Corp. and Citrix Systems Inc. announced today that they have tightened their virtualization partnership to help both companies compete …
Red Hat debuts virtualization software
Red Hat Inc. today introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting current market leader VMware Inc.'s position …