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Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were...

Sales of mobile phones jumped sharply to record-setting levels during the first quarter, but longtime leader Nokia saw its share of the market fall to the lowest level in five years, according to a report from Gartner. Nokia's share of the cell phone market fell from 34.6 percent a year ago to 28.9 ...

Antibiotech demonstrators faced off against police outside of the Bio 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The confrontation resulted in 150 arrests, most resulting from demonstrators refusing to disperse from a busy intersection. The demonstrators crowded the streets around the Moscone Conv...

Attorneys for Oracle opened their challenge of the U.S. government's attempt to block the company's purchase of PeopleSoft by pointing to the recently revealed Microsoft and SAP merger talks as proof that the enterprise application business is much larger than regulators contend. Department of Justi...

Microsoft vowed Tuesday to appeal the recent European Union antitrust ruling that orders the company to modify its business practices, make product changes and pay a hefty fine. On Monday, the company delivered an application to annul the EU's decision to the European Court of Justice. After a five-...

In the midst of Oracle's trial to defend its takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle will disclose merger talks between SAP and Microsoft. In a statement, Microsoft revealed Monday that in late 2003, it approached SAP to discuss the viability of a merger. After months of discussion, it became clear that...

Microsoft has announced that it will ask a European court to suspend parts of the European Commission's March 24th ruling, which ordered the company to change its business practices and pay a fine of US$612 million. In the ruling, the commission mandates that Microsoft must strip Media Player softwa...

EMC today announced several new technologies and services designed to help customers make compliance with regulations a seamless part of IT operations. The new EMC technologies for e-mail and content archiving, new platform functionality for compliance-related data management, and services for data ...

General Motors will invest US$3 billion to expand operations in China in the next three years, a massive outlay of capital that will enable it to double its output in the country that is home to one of the world's fastest-growing economies. GM, the world's leading automaker, and its partners will in...

Microsoft has won a patent related to the timing of button-clicks on handheld computers and similar devices, sparking concerns among some companies and industry observers that the software giant will attempt to reap licensing fees for what many view as a common practice. Patent No. 6,727,830 spells ...

A virus that was first seen on May 22nd has been worming its way across the Internet, stealing personal information in the process. Dubbed "Korgo," the worm exploits the same vulnerabilities and spreads in the same way as the Sasser worm that caused havoc last month. Although the virus is not yet wi...

Web performance measurement firm Keynote Systems recently acquired NetRaker, a developer of customer experience management software. Most of NetRaker's employees -- including president and CEO Douglas van Duyne, who became senior director of customer experience products and designs -- joined Keynote...

Social networking pioneer online service Friendster has tapped former NBC entertainment president Scott Sassa as its CEO, replacing interim CEO Tim Koogle. Friendster gave Koogle the reins in March, three years after he had stepped down as CEO of Yahoo and was replaced by Hollywood studio executive ...

Seagate Technology, a maker of hard-disk drives, plans to cut nearly 3,000 jobs in a bid to save $150 million as it deals with what it described as fiercer-than-expected pressure to lower prices. The company said it will eliminate 2,940 jobs through attrition or layoffs, shedding about 7 percent of ...

When Mel Karmazin on Tuesday announced that he had resigned his position as president of Viacom, the media giant responded by appointing Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves as co-presidents and co-chief operating officers, effective immediately. The two new appointees were Viacom's two most influential d...