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Microsoft, Yahoo Can Try, but They Can’t Take Google’s Search Crown

Press and blogger corps (myself included) are falling all over themselves to write about how Microsoft and Yahoo finally did it.The companies finally banded...

T-Mobile Sidekick LX ’09 Gets Microsoft Exchange Support, Push E-Mail

The T-Mobile Sidekick LX '09-the popular consumer phone with the full QWERTY keyboard and distinct flip-up screen-just became a whole lot more enterprise-friendly, according...

Palm Pre Cannot Rescue Sprint from Second-Quarter Loss

The Palm Pre proved to be a hit for Sprint Nextel, but it couldn't stop the carrier from losing a quarter of a million...

Microsoft, Yahoo Deal ‘Not Better Than the Last Deal,’ Says Ballmer

The online-partnership deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is far more collaborative than the one attempted by Microsoft in the summer of 2008, suggesting that...

Microsoft’s Ballmer Expects Google, not Antitrust Regulators, to Oppose Deal with Yahoo

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he expects Google, not antitrust authorities, to provide the stiffest competition to its search and search ad deal with...

Microsoft Vulnerability Underscores Importance of Strong SDL

Sometimes it's the little things. According to Microsoft, one of the bugs in the Active Template Library was the result of a typo.An ampersand,...

Report: Recession, Enterprise Acceptance Spur Open Source

According to a recent IDC study, the market for open-source software has been accelerated by both the slow economy and increased acceptance from enterprise...

Black Hat: Microsoft Touts Progress of Security Initiatives

Heading into yet another annual Black Hat USA conference during which its products will no doubt be publicly hacked, cracked and attacked by numerous...

Black Hat: Security Research Celebs Prepare to Rock Black Hat

Every corner of the IT industry, or the business world for that matter, claims to have its own set of "rock stars."However, unlike almost...

Samsung Launches 1TB HDD for Servers, Desktop PCs

Following on the heels of big new spinning-disk storage drives released by Western Digital, Toshiba and Seagate, Samsung rejoined the capacity party July 29...