Microsoft has encouraged organizations to rebuild trust with customers by ensuring data privacy themselves rather than solely relying on state legislature in the path to economic recovery.
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At an Inspire 2017 session last week, Microsoft provided updated guidance to OEMs, partners, and resellers on how they should sell Windows 10 Pro and S; by 'lighting up' their services.
Last week, Microsoft announced it would be bringing its SQL Server product to Linux. Now the move seems to be a big winner, with thousands of companies signing up to try the beta of the product.
Patent holding companies, known as 'trolls' for their business practices, are costly to fight legal battles against. A recent academic paper attempts to put a cost on the losses these trolls create.
A new survey says that 60 percent of the articles about specific businesses on Wikipedia contain factual errors and that it takes a long time, if ever, to see those errors corrected.
CEO of Microsoft Corporation, Steve Ballmer, has warned companies to upgrade from Windows XP, or else they will face anger from employees. The reason for this is because, according to Steve, "If you deploy a...
According to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), popular Chinese search engines Baidu.com and Sohu.com have been sued for aiding illicit online copying, in a move by the music industry to control piracy in...
Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their IT, according a PMP Research study commissioned...
SanDisk has filed two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, seeking unspecified damages and a permanent ban on three patent infringements accusing a total of 25 companies of using SanDisk technology in...
Remember 2001, when it was decided that the record industry was going to be brought to its knees by peer to peer sharing? Remember yesterday, when last time we checked, there was still a thriving...
With internet usage expanding exponentially and demand for high-speed connections ever growing, cable internet companies may soon be facing serious bandwidth issues, according to a report by ABI Research. The problem comes from more demanding...
Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order...
Taiwanese companies E-ten Information Systems and Arima Communications have signed a technology agreement to develop 3G and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, combining their technical expertise to deliver at least four new Windows...
Intel has invested a total of $31 million in six companies through the company's venture capital arm: Intel Capital. In the first quarter of this year, Intel Capital invested $154 million in 43 deals worldwide,...
NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said today. The batteries were manufactured before June 2006...
Uwe Boll, the butt of many jokes from the gaming and movie communities due to his generally lackluster video game to movie translations, is blaming the game companies for his movies' poor showings at the...
A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioningtechnology used by rival operating systems to make servers moreefficient. SWSoft is trying to get OpenVZmade part of the mainstream Linux kernel--the...
Apples chief executive Steve Jobs spoke out ahead of the Apple showcase in Paris stating that record companies are becoming "greedy", pushing for higher prices on music downloads from iTunes music store. Jobs is determined...
In their second major ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal court verdict that would have required cable companies to open up their networks to third party Internet service providers. The...
The boss is getting serious about e-mail snooping. A new study has found that 63 percent of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to employ staff to read...
A group of state attorney generals are preparing a letter warning file-sharing companies that they could be targets of legal action if they don't take stronger action on privacy and intellectual property violations. ...
Red Hat and Novell have announced plans to include RealPlayer 10 in their operating systems. The fun isn't stopping there; they're also planning on integrating Real's DRM technology Helix. While this comes as...
The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects,...
They were wrong, and they were annoying, so now they've been stopped. With a new version of Symantec's SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) e-mail security product, the antivirus company is trying to...
Thanks process_this. SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride announced the plan Monday at the Software 2004 conference here, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognized name. SCO, which owns a...
A U.S. federal court has cleared the way for Kazaa file-sharing software owner Sharman Networks to sue the entertainment industry for copyright infringement, Sharman said on Friday. Sharman, targeted by studios and record companies because...
A group of Washington lawmakers called on Friday for file-swapping companies to help stop distribution of copyrighted materials and pornography on their networks. In a letter sent to the heads of several leading...
In a boost for the emerging iSCSI networking standard, more than a dozen storage hardware companies have proven that their iSCSI-based products work with Microsoft's Windows. Microsoft on Wednesday plans to announce the news and...
Realizing the increasingly important role to be played by DDR2 memory, DRAM makers plan to quicken the pace of capital investment for production of the new generation of double data rate chips. Mainly driven by...
Alex Salkever posits With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? in his latest Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek Online. Salkever doesn't think that iChat AV will replace the phone specifically, but talks in broad...
Businesses are unprepared for a new law under which they must notify customers if personal data is compromised, say legal experts. A new California law requiring companies to notify customers if their computerised personal data...
US Cable companies are now cracking down on people who use their Internet connections to create wireless local area networks (WLANs). This is much like what happened with cable TV in the 1980s when so-called...
It has been reported that cable companies AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications are considering moves which could see the end of cheap bandwidth as they look towards limiting users and forcing them to...
StarOffice creator Marco Boerries is to unveil his new venture, a device- and OS-agnostic system intended to allow wide ranges of appliances to communicate with each other, and across the Internet. Boerries company VerdiSoft, which...
Just seen this over at The Nando Times The record industry must provide documented proof it owns copyrights to scores of popular songs it is seeking to protect in its lawsuit against...
One of the most heart-wrenching aspects of the Sept. 11 terror attacks was that many victims, thanks to the widespread use of mobile phones, were able to call loved ones and say goodbye. ...
Microsoft's new AI creates super-realistic talking-head deepfakes, and it made Mona Lisa rap
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