Archives: 2008 February

The EU slaps Microsoft with a record penalty, but will a Vista price cut help pay the fine? Also: Pakistan hijacks YouTube, and game publishers square off for market domination. Last week’s bit of glasnost on the part of Microsoft apparently didn’t make people in Europe very happy….

Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association. More than […]

Google is working with homeless shelters in San Francisco to let them offer free phone numbers and voicemail boxes to their clients for life. The aim is to let shelters provide these facilities directly to their clients instead of requiring the homeless to register individually for a free phone number and voicemail box as they […]

A new free Web-based product, SyncWizard, aims to change the way people store and access their own personal data and files. SyncWizard scans PCs or Macs for the most valuable data and uploads it to a variety of Web-based storage sites, then makes it accessible via live, customized Web page. It’s a product of Ajax13, […]

It's easy to blame a lukewarm response to Vista for Thursday's price cut, but there are other factors. For one, some new PCs don't cost much more than a Windows upgrade.

A large organization decides that blogs cut productivity, provide misleading information and could compromise security. It discontinues access for its personnel, even though information is a key weapon in competition. The question is whether this is a smart policy for a large organization, especially the U.S. Air Force.

According to a report this week in […]

The latest stage in the ongoing saga of Julius Baer v. Wikileaks was to take place Friday morning as a federal judge considered whether to extend a temporary injunction against the whistle-blowing Web site.

The case started in early February when the Swiss banking conglomerate Julius Baer asked the U.S. District Court in San Francisco to […]

Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to slash prices on its Windows Vista operating system sold through retail channels. The company wants consumers to upgrade to the latest version of its flagship product.

The price changes will take effect globally with the retail release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 later this year. In the U.S., […]

Apple has scheduled an event to present the Software Development Kit (SDK) that can open up its iPhone to third-party native applications. It also will present new iPhone features for the enterprise.

Press invitations went out this week for the iPhone Software Roapmap on Thursday, March 6, at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. The original launch date […]

Survey says almost 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet for news. Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news,…