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Red Hat and Microsoft, about as virulent a pair of enemies as has ever existed, threw a leash over their fire-breathing dragons long enough on Monday to announce a cooperative pact forced on them by their mutual users - folks who may be holding back from committing to virtualization ah...Feb. 18, 2009 12:45 AM EST Reads: 2,451
Microsoft has bought a piece of Affle Holdings, a Singapore-based mobile marketing company. The investment was part of Affle’s B round and represents 20% of the company according to the Economic Times of India. Affle says it will leverage Microsoft’s expertise and relationships in the ...
Telefonica and Microsoft have announced that the companies are deploying a range of Windows Live for Mobile client application services for their mutual customers on their mobile devices. Telefonica will enable its customers to download a Java-based client application that gives them a...
Microsoft now has 10,000 patents to its name that it can try to monetize. The IEEE rates its patent portfolio as having the most power and influence industry-wide, a determination made in part by how often it is cited as prior art. The company has signed 500 licensing agreements.
Ahead of Microsoft launching Office 14 – which is supposed to offer live collaboration – and despite the free hit-or-miss Office Live Workspace, a funded year-old start-up called DocVerse founded by a couple of ex-Microsoft SharePoint and SQL people says it’s making Office 2007 documen...
Microsoft said that it’s going to open its own stores worldwide to “create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience.” They will have to bear comparison to Apple and its 250 stores, which have been eating into Microsoft’s sales. The company has hired David Porter as corporat...
Ten months after plunking down a lavish $1.2 billion in cash for the publicly traded, financially compromised Norwegian ISV Fast Search and Transfer, Microsoft has produced a roadmap of where it’s going in enterprise search. The roadmap, sparse on detail, says it’s going to take Micros...
IDC says there was a "precipitous" drop in the number of PC processors shipped worldwide between the third quarter and the fourth quarter last year - the worst, in fact, since it started tracking such things in 1996 - and it holds out scant hope for this half, which is why even the mig...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, whose sales are suffering along with everybody else's, sent the following letter to every member of Congress Wednesday urging them to move on the $789 billion stimulus package. The text is posted on Microsoft's web site.
Mozilla – with its Firefox browser, a direct descendant of the Netscape browser that played such a pivotal part in the great antitrust suit that the Justice Department brought against Microsoft in 1998 – is throwing its support behind the European Commission’s replay of that suit, char...
EntropySoft has announced the release of a new Microsoft SharePoint connector. EntropySoft’s new version of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 connector enables read and write access to content stored in the Microsoft SharePoint repository. The Microsoft SharePoint connector is part of EntropyS...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to organizing IT resources and data to meet the changing needs of the business. Implementing SOA depends upon the IT organization being able to build interoperable, robust, reusable, and composable Services that abstract the underlying...
Connecting to a database requires a number of independent layers. The application needs to incorporate software that establishes the connection and calls to the database. A database connectivity layer needs to be in place to help manage security, communications, and data flow with the ...
This paper focuses on ADO.NET and how you can best implement it in your environment, what you must consider as you select your data connectivity middleware, and how your choices impact the development, deployment, and production-use of your application. Click here to read more about ho...
Sunbelt Software, a provider of Windows security software, today announced the release of a major upgrade to Sunbelt Network Security Inspector. The new version of this network vulnerability scanner delivers enhancements such as a new scanning engine for faster scan times, a more intui...
Microsoft – which has yet to get its tit out of the legal wringer it got caught it because of the famous “Vista Capable” promotion – has started trying to discriminate between Windows 7 SKUs now, a year ahead of the operating system’s ostensible due date.
The US Supreme Court was asked to review the infamous Bilski business methods patent decision handed down en banc in October by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit limiting patents to things that “transform an article to a different state or thing” or are “tied to a particular...
It's beginning to look as though we may get to hear this year if the federal appeals court buys the idea that Novell owns Unix. SCO's appeal of the Utah district court's 2007 summary judgment finding in Novell's favor has been put on an expedited schedule by the US Court of Appeals for...
According to what Microsoft is saying now, the so-called Windows 7 Server is not a major release and is really nothing more than Windows Server 2008 R2, a continuation of the Long Horn code base, with no changes to the core operating system components. And although the Microsoft Server...
What is Windows Embedded? Windows Embedded is a family of operating systems that offer familiar tools and technologies for developers to bring the next generation of smart, connected, service-oriented devices to market. Windows Embedded features enable interoperability with industry st...
Intel chairman and former CEO Craig Barrett, 69, is going to retire in May and hand the job to independent director Jane Shaw. Intel hasn’t had a non-executive chairman since Arthur Rock, the company’s original financier, the guy who gave venture capital its name. Shaw, a contemporary ...
The new release focuses on support for volume and/or profit growth strategies, pricing process agility (to cope with cost/price volatility), improved compliance monitoring, and capabilities for dealing with rapidly changing customer demand. The update also includes a major architectura...
Intel has lost its unprecedented bid to get the European Commission to consider what Intel figures is exculpatory evidence that the agency refuses to seek in the AMD-leveraged antitrust action that the EC has brought against the semiconductor giant. 
Late last Friday Microsoft extended the deadline for the public beta of its next-generation desktop operating system, Windows 7, perhaps because it hasn't hit its 2.5 million download bogie although it claims to have enough feedback to meet its engineering needs. It says it doesn't wan...
Zimbra co-founder Satish Dharmaraj is on his way out of Yahoo and will be replaced by Zimbra exec Jim Morrisroe in March. Yahoo bought the AJAX-based open source/commercial e-mail and calendaring groupware for $350 million in September of 2007 and has been trying to enliven Yahoo Mail ...
Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz froze salaries Wednesday. AMD told the SEC that it rejected Intel’s suggestion that its acquisition of ATI and its creation of the so-called Foundry Company manufacturing spin-off breached provisions in their age-old cross-license agreement. The terms of the...
The economy is playing havoc with Microsoft and so it’s going to make the first broad layoffs in its history, jettisoning 5,000 jobs in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, legal, HR, and IT over the next 18 months, including 1,400 people immediately, much less than some of the hysterical n...
Stellar Information Systems has launched Stellar Phoenix Deleted E-Mail Recovery 1.0 to be used with Microsoft Outlook. The software is capable of creating unique profiles for individual PST files. This application is designed to recover e-mails even from password-protected files. It c...
Stealth.com has released the LPC-650 Series LittlePC. The new Stealth LPC-650 small form PC offers power in a package that measures 6.5" x 6" and less than 2" tall - or about the size of a hard cover novel. Engineered with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors featuring 64-Bit EMT64 T...
Aspose.Total for .NET Q4 2008 has been released. Key features include: Aspose.Words allows direct conversion to PDF documents. It also supports MHTML, DrawingML and EPUB export, Aspose.Cells enables reading and writing XLTM and XLMX document formats, Aspose.Pdf now fully supports PDF/A...
The European Commission has sent Microsoft another Statement of Objections (SO) this time accusing the company of the antitrust crime of tying the Internet Explorer browser to its Windows operating system. The Microsoft-obsessed regulator says the tie is abuse of Windows’ dominance. T...
The Wall Street Journal Wednesday waded into the 10-day-old speculation that Microsoft, in an atypical move, might make significant workforce reductions. Like everybody else, the Journal couldn’t come up with anything solid, only that the company was thinking about it and may find alte...
Intel, that industry bellwether, reported its fourth quarter and the results were no worse than it warned they’d be when it reduced its expectations for the second time. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear there’ll be any relief this quarter. Uncertainty runs so deep that Intel is leery ab...
The inability to recover mission-critical information promptly can spell disaster for a company in today’s 24x7 business environment. IDC estimates that server downtime cost organizations roughly $140 billion worldwide in lost worker productivity and revenue in 2007. Much harder to qua...
DataDirect announced the latest release of the DataDirect Data Integration Suite featuring new versions of its XML-based component technologies for data integration in traditional and service-oriented environments. Designed to meet the data transformation and aggregation needs of devel...
The concept of telecommunications has rapidly been redefined by the “tele-my-experience” multimedia convergence. Competitors from within and outside of the traditional telco world are marketing new, integrated service packages to an audience of subscribers, who are more receptive than ...
According to a blog nobody ever heard of before called Fudzilla, which itself might serve as a caution but was widely picked up by generally serious people, Microsoft is supposed to announce on January 15, a week before its earnings report, that it is laying off 15,000 people, nearly 1...
Business at Lenovo, the world’s fourth-largest PC supplier and the repository of IBM’s old PC unit, went from bad to worse the second half of last year because of crippling demand reduction, even in China, its home market, robbing the company of its global springboard and backstop. HP ...
