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Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News The company also said it was ready with the first "service pack" update for Mac Office 2008, adding things like reliability and performance tweaks, as well as some changes aimed at boosting security. The update will be available Tuesday for...

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News The potential acquisition was the first big move by then-CEO Carly Fiorina. This also isn't the first time HP has taken a crack at acquiring a major consulting firm. An agreement between the world's largest computer maker and the IT services...

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Demonstrations of JavaFX in motion formed much of Tuesday's general session keynote at JavaOne. As part of this summer's JavaFX preview programme for scripters and web developers, Sun said it will be looking for forum-based feedback on the JavaFX...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid

News s better-than-expected first-quarter results, reported on Tuesday, had not changed Microsoft's view of its value. no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo!

Tags: microsoft, yahoo

[25 Apr 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away

News s better-than-expected first-quarter results, reported on Tuesday, have not changed Microsoft's view of Yahoo! Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its $43.6bn bid for Yahoo! if the two sides can't agree on a price, chief executive Steve Ballmer...

Tags: steve ballmer, microsoft, yahoo, google

[24 Apr 2008]

Security experts criticise Phorm

News A browser request is first sent via a switch to a machine on the ISP network, which then redirects the user to the Phorm Webwise server to have an anonymised cookie attached to it, allowing Phorm to serve targeted ads to the user.

Tags: threat, ads, phorm

[18 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! ad-share gaining ground on Google?

News outpacing Google in spending on search advertising, ad viewer-ship and click-through rates during the first quarter. s first-quarter share of search spending by selected advertisers rose to 23 per cent of the market, up from historic levels of 18...

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[17 Apr 2008]

Windows Vista SP1 finally a go

News The first service pack for Windows Vista has been released. However, even as late as Tuesday, when the download was live, there was still some confusion within Microsoft as to when the service pack would be available on Windows Update.

Tags: vista, microsoft, sp1, operating system

[19 Mar 2008]

Microsoft boosts stability of Office 2008 for Mac

News Microsoft has released its first update to Office 2008 for Mac, fixes that should boost stability and performance in some areas, while closing some security holes. Microsoft also issued an update Tuesday for the older Office 2004 for Mac product.

Tags: microsoft, mac, office, stability

[12 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News For more coverage from MWC check out Natasha's daily diaries - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - and keep an eye out for a mini series of video interviews with senior mobile execs at the show in the coming weeks.

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Microsoft's 'patch Tuesday' releases six 'critical' plasters

News This month's "Patch Tuesday" did not include a patch that had been promised in Microsoft's advance notification for February 2008. Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager at Symantec Security Response, said: "While the batch of critical...

Tags: microsoft, patch, sp1, vista

[14 Feb 2008]

HMRC email rejected filtering of sensitive data

News The first email exchange relates to the NAO's request for National Insurance numbers from the child benefit database for the 2006/2007 audit.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review...

Tags: hmrc, alistair darling, nao, benefit

[23 Nov 2007]

Blog standard

AS Analysis Bloggers are now so influential that for the first time a growing number of them can count themselves among the Agenda Setters. I think blogging's definitely got to the point where there're enough mainstream consumers watching it for the top ones...

[12 Oct 2007]

Photos: Apple shows off new iMacs, software

Photo Three new iMacs were unveiled at an event held on Tuesday at Apple's Cupertino, California headquarters. Jobs said it was the first time ever Apple had put the FireWire 800 jack on an iMac. There will be two 20-inch iMacs with different...

Tags: iwork, ilife, imac, apple

[08 Aug 2007]

Yahoo! profits fall

News on Tuesday posted second-quarter net profit that was down from a year ago as growth in its historically strong display advertising business slowed and moves to better compete with Google on search advertising have yet to pan out.

Tags: profits, yahoo!

[18 Jul 2007]

Windows Media crack won't delay iPlayer

News The launch of the BBC's new media player will not be delayed by a new crack for the digital rights management features of Windows Media Player, the corporation said on Tuesday. FairUse4WM first appeared last year.

Tags: iplayer

[17 Jul 2007]

Microsoft to open Vista to Google

News In a filing made jointly with the Justice Department on Tuesday night, Microsoft said it would change the search feature as part of the first service pack to Windows Vista. Microsoft agreed on Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature...

Tags: vista

[20 Jun 2007]

Microsoft won't lift Vista virtualisation limits

News Microsoft at first said virtualisation presents inherent security risks and that it hoped by limiting which versions of the OS could act as virtual machines, only sophisticated users and businesses would employ the tactic.

Tags: virtualisation, vista

[20 Jun 2007]

Malware writers target open source

News First discovered last month, the OpenOffice macro-based worm is spread through a file called badbunny.odg. As of Tuesday, the security vendor had not received any new reports of the threat from customers.

Tags: malware, open source, openoffice

[14 Jun 2007]

NHS claims IT success

News Speaking at a joint session of GC Expo, Smart Healthcare and Procurement Solutions on Tuesday, Connecting for Health chief executive Richard Granger gave delegates an update on what has so far been achieved in terms of core system delivery.

Tags: npfit, nhs

[14 Jun 2007]

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