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Microsoft Delays Office 2008 for Mac to January

Microsofts delivery date for Office 2008 for Mac OS X has slipped to mid-January 2008 at the earliest, the companys Macintosh Business Unit confirmed...

Hedge Funds Luring Away Prospective Microsoft Talent

Hedge Funds Luring Away Prospective Microsoft Talent"> Editors Note: This is the second in a series of articles, based on an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin...

Malware Maelstrom Coming from Russia with Love

A resurgence of malware activity in Russia has caught the eye of security vendors. Recently, researchers at Trend Micro have found a Russian server hosting...

Time to Take Your Blue Pill

LAS VEGAS—Joanna Rutkowska has posted her Blue Pill virtualized rootkit for free and open download here, she said during her presentation-cum-skeptics-slapdown at Black Hat...

Web System Vets U.S. Contractor Workers

MONTEREY, Calif.—The U.S. federal government and the 3.3 million people who work as private-industry contractors to provide goods and services for it now have...

Service Outages Still Plague BlackBerry, AT&T

For companies that pride themselves on service and reliability, AT&T and Research In Motion certainly have had their share of service interruptions, and there...

iPhone Update Erases User Modifications

Apples answer to the early security threats to iPhone is apparently a lot more than just try to plug security holes—it also uncovers and...

States Seek Funding Help for Real ID Technology

States hoping for federal help to comply with the governments Real ID Act will have to find other funding sources to pay for the...

Mass. Surrenders to Microsofts Open XML Push

The only thing thats surprising today, Aug. 2, is that the Chicago Cubs are leading, albeit by mere percentage points, the National League Central....

Choose Your Retail Threats Carefully

As the big Sept. 30 deadline for retailers to comply with credit card security rules, Visa and others ponder the carrot-and-stick argument. The most thankless...