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Code Red, Nimda and Blaster. These high-profile worms, which exploited flaws in Microsoft Windows and other applications, made Microsoft the butt of security jokes and forced the company to reexamine its approach to developing secure...

Steven Parker · Sep 26, 2006 with -1 comments

Solution providers at D&H Distributing's fifth annual Digital Convergence Expo criticized Microsoft's digital home efforts, but praised chip giant Intel for helping drive market adoption in conjunction with VARs. Several attendees said they see Microsoft's...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 14, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

2005 proved one thing. The music industry really is as dumb as you think. US CD sales in 2005 fell 3.5 per cent year-over-year, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That's quite a blow given that CD...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 3, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

IBM extended its industry-specific middleware efforts Monday, introducing four software packages aimed at the health care, life sciences, retail and telecommunications sectors. The introduction marks the second wave of vertical-industry middleware products launched...

· Mar 1, 2004 with -1 comments

Intel wants to be No. 1 again, and in a flash. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, which slipped from first to fourth place in the flash memory market last year, is revamping its...

· Feb 20, 2004 with -1 comments

A US federal appeals court said Friday that a law restricting junk faxes was constitutional, setting a precedent that favors legal attempts to restrict unsolicited e-mail. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals...

· Mar 24, 2003 with -1 comments

Hitachi is focusing its efforts and targeting emerging markets to do what IBM couldn't--make money with hard drives. Executives from a Hitachi and IBM hard drive joint venture, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 6, 2003 with -1 comments

Under Microsoft's Trust Worthy Computing initiative, their products they say have seen a drastic increase in both security and reliability. Will Microsoft finally plug the holes that plague their software? Read on! ...

· Nov 16, 2002 with -1 comments

Unlike Intel and AMD, the big chip makers for Windows-based computers, Apple hasn't announced plans to put technology into hardware that could end up restricting what customers do with the products they buy. Unlike Microsoft,...

· Oct 2, 2002 with -1 comments

REDMOND, Wash. -- Sept. 12, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is making a donation of $10 million in cash and technical services to support the relief and recovery efforts in New York...

· Sep 13, 2001 with -1 comments

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