Microsoft's research facility is celebrating its 15-year anniversary this week. Microsoft Research held an event at Microsoft's Redmond, campus where Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates appeared via video to applaud the organisation, Microsoft said...

Mozilla Foundation has announced the availability of Release Candidate 1 of its Firefox 2 browser with a new look and features like enhanced security, anti-phishing, inline spell check, and improved tab browsing…

The Linux vs. Windows war continues as two different studies come up with facts that are diametrically opposed to each other. Now, which one is devoid of bias, and spells plain facts, is a choice you have to make. Microsoft touted a study it commissioned from...

Interwoven, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business has expanded its five-year partnership with BEA Systems; to co-market a solution designed to enable organisations to more effectively take advantage...

Windows XP has turned five yeas old, and Microsoft is receiving its share of brickbats and bouquets. However, amidst all the ranting, everyone fails to cite the fact the XP is better than its predecessors. Microsoft's long-anticipated replacement for 'Win 9x'...

Visa has released a comprehensive security alert has identifying the five leading causes of data breaches and offered immediate, specific prevention strategies for each. The findings came from a detailed review of the card security environment, including common fraud...

The overall BPO market in Asia Pacific is expected to reach USD 5.4 billion in 2006, an increase of 13.5 percent over 2005. Australia experienced growth rates higher than the Asia Pacific average for HR BPO, at 10 percent from 2005 to 2006....

MSN has announced the US beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that aims to make it easy for people to express themselves by uploading, discovering, and sharing personal videos with the Soapbox community and others around the world...

Microsoft has announced that a Zune-branded phone is part of its upcoming Zune platform. Chris Stephenson, the general manager for marketing for the Zune, didn’t give any other details on the device…

Google has set up a subsidiary, Google.org, a for-profit philanthropy with an initial capital of a billion dollars. Not being organised on a tax-free basis carries both advantages and drawbacks. From the article, 'Unlike most charities, this one...

In a 2005 survey, Nemertes found that 76% of medium and large companies use some form of instant messaging. In a similar study, Gartner found that 65% of employees use IM in the workplace and suggested that public IM usage in the enterprise will be ubiquitous by 2008. Now a ...

Microsoft has announced a new initiative that open source developers hope will go a long way towards making life easier for all of them working together on the identity cross-industry. It’s called the Open Specification Promise (OSP). The goal was to find the simplest...

Shai Agassi, SAP AG’s president of the Product and Technology Group and executive board member provided a checklist comprised of four calls to action to prepare for the coming enterprise SOA evolution, solidify...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM v.3.0 has caused increase in interest, as compared to its predecessor, Microsoft CRM 1.2. Microsoft sold more than 50,000 seats worldwide in 2Q06, but its total market share is still small (1.4 percent of the total CRM license sales...

"New business focuses and pressures are driving pockets of vendor innovation and renewed corporate spending in supply chain initiatives,” said Mark Hillman, senior research analyst at AMR Research. “However, spending is tempered by the fact that corporate supply chain organisational maturity...

Microsoft is unveiling its official Atlas technology branding for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming on ASP.Net, and will make the software available sooner than planned. The company hopes to ship its Atlas technologies around the end of 2006...

Samsung has announced that it has completed the first working prototype of what is expected to be the main memory device to replace high density NOR flash within the next decade, a Phase-change Random Access Memory (PRAM)...

Service Excellence Research Group has announced the release of a new report, 'Knowledge Management - Strategies, Benchmarks and Best Practices.' Among the findings is that KM is evolving from informal grass roots projects to strategic service initiatives....

In the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage, Linux will never displace Windows of its leadership position. This result holds true regardless of the strength of Linux's demand-side learning. Furthermore, the result persists regardless of the...

gHacks has published a method that gives you the ability to download every file from Microsoft without a WGA check. According to them, you don't need a magic wand, but a tool called mgadiag.exe, the download url of the file that you want to...