A rise in the number of Wii units dished out to retailers has lead to chocolate-like popularity of the console this Easter, with Nintendo telling GamesIndustry.biz it had sold more than 25,000 last week in... More...

Google has issued subpoenas to some of its biggest competitors, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon, as part of its defense against the copyright lawsuit it faces over its library project. Earlier, McGraw Hill and the... More...

Oracle on Monday is shipping an upgrade to its free database development tool, adding a number of enhancements, including the capability to access competing databases such as Microsoft Access and MySQL. Oracle SQL Developer Release... More...

European security software makers are closely, but quietly, watching as Microsoft enters their turf. Companies such as F-Secure, Panda Software and Sophos are taking a low-key approach, unlike their U.S. counterparts. Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec, in... More...

Adobe Systems has launched a test version of Mac software that is seen as a rival to a professional photo program that Apple Computer launched last year. Adobe on Monday... More...

In a surprising partnership announced Monday, Research in Motion Ltd. and Palm Inc. are going to work together to offer RIM's Blackberry wireless e-mail service over Palm's Treo 650. The product should see store... More...

The judge considering Microsoft Corp.'s appeal against European Union sanctions has called a closed meeting for Thursday to decide what action to take after two more major opponents of the U.S. software giant withdrew from... More...

The European Commission is caught in the middle of the latest standards battle between Microsoft Corp. and chief rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. This time it's over XML. At the XML Conference & Exposition... More...

IBM said on Thursday its workhorse commercial computers have smashed the industry's most demanding tests, which analysts said creates a performance gap that could put further pressure on Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems to recalibrate their... More...

Microsoft has bucked most of the major software makers by agreeing to count multicore processors as a single chip in its product pricing schemes. Rightly recognizing an opportunity to boast, Microsoft today dedicated an entire... More...

Nokia's attempt to win a majority stake in Symbian has been blocked by three fellow shareholders that have increased their holdings in the company. Symbian announced Wednesday that Panasonic, Sony Ericsson and... More...

It's not often that Bill Gates is associated with the free Linux computer operating system, Netscape's Web browser or royalty-free software, but on Wednesday he embraced all three. Gates, chairman of Microsoft... More...

Like a faded rock star determined to make a comeback, the record industry is looking to return to the online music stage in a very big way in coming months. Spurred by the runaway success... More...

AFTER years at the cutting edge of technology, Microsoft seems in danger of falling off the pace. According to Nomura analyst Richard Windsor, in the short-term Microsoft is going to have difficulty... More...

Lucent Technologies and Juniper Networks have teamed up to challenge Cisco Systems' dominance in selling network equipment to major North American telephone companies. In their first-ever deal together, Lucent and Juniper on Monday... More...

Cisco Systems reigns as the biggest seller of machines used to direct Internet traffic, but new rivals want to eat into its meat-and-potatoes business with lower prices--cutting into fat profit margins. Computer maker Dell Computer... More...

The stunning demise of eConnections has sent shock waves through the broader supply chain services market, where more casualties may be imminent. The same factors forcing eConnections to throw in the towel-the slumping... More...

When we revealed the delightful bulletin yesterday that Microsoft has sent its salesforce, defending its Internet Information Server (IIS), we rather deviously kept one section under wraps. It's a list of vulnerabilities in rival products,... More...

Sept. 20 — Microsoft Corp. is modifying plans for its Passport service, inviting rivals and other companies to create a common way to use a single user name and password at sites across the Internet.... More...