Ensuring that schools in low-income communities have access to the same technologies as wealthier schools isn't enough for James Burgett, executive director of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center in Northern California. He wants them to have better technology, and he wants them to have it for free.
- By David Nagel
- March 10, 2008
According to IDG news service, Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza publicly decried his company's patent licensing deal with Microsoft at Redmond's MIX08 conference last week in Las Vegas.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 10, 2008
A computing research organization said that enrollments and degrees at United States-based computer science departments dropped further in 2006 and 2007.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- March 10, 2008
Enterprise solution provider Software AG announced its webMethods Application Modernization Suite -- software designed to bring service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and other improvements to standard mainframe infrastructures.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 10, 2008
According to a story posted on TechCrunch this morning, Microsoft and Google are both preparing to make bids on the user-driven news aggregation site Digg.com.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 07, 2008
In a rare display of contrition, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday acknowledged frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to upgrade its Internet Explorer browser more routinely, as well the questionable decision to pursue separate development paths for Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 07, 2008
Aruba Networks claims that a recent study shows that not only do various vendors' 802.11n access points deliver dramatically different performances, some vendors' equipment is much better than others at working with third-party client adapters.
- By Patrick Marshall
- March 06, 2008
After spending 13 years as the richest person in the world, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has dropped to No. 3.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft announced that it will be releasing four patches, all rated critical because they allow remote-code execution, and all involving Microsoft Office in some way.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft's Students to Business portal pairs U.S. college students working toward IT careers with companies who are looking to fill entry-level IT positions.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
Is Apple acknowledging the power and ubiquity of Microsoft's messaging platform? That might be a stretch, but the company has announced a forthcoming update to its iPhone 2.0 software that will include built-in support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
At last week's VMworld, BEA and VMware announced their partnership on a project to allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
A Document Interoperability Initiative was announced by Microsoft today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2008
With a name like "Cult of the Dead Cow" you know these guys are probably up to no good, and they are living up to expectations with the release of Goolag Scan, a tool to automate the use of search engines to scan for vulnerable applications, back doors and sensitive information on Web sites.
- By William Jackson
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft ushered in two highly anticipated betas: the first public downloads of Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.
- By Kathleen Richards
- March 05, 2008
One week after Microsoft officially launched the 2008 versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server, the company has taken its show on the road.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 05, 2008
Zend Technologies has achieved Microsoft Windows Server 2008 certification for one of its PHP products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2008
A newly released report from Forrester Research makes predictions about enterprise software trends within the forthcoming decade.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2008
In a major shift of position, the next release of Microsoft's widely deployed Internet Explorer browser will set standards-based rendering as the default, a move that will impact how developers build and deploy Web content.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 04, 2008
Microsoft and Google both recently added to their in-the-clouds application offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2008