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SEATTLE — Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), faced with Web rivals looking to poach its business customers, said on Sunday it plans to broaden the availability of its online services for e-mail and collaboration software. Last year, Microsoft started subscription-based online services to run its Exchange corporate e-mail program and SharePoint collaboration software on Microsoft’s own computer systems […]

Part one of this series introduced municipal Wi-Fi surveying and testing performed by independent testers, including the typical phases, and how to get prepared for each. Then part two began by detailing how to build a muni wireless toolkit, and jumped into performing a Pre-Installation Survey. This tutorial will conclude the series by discussing how […]

Within the next several weeks, Bain Capital and China’s Huawei plan to reapply for U.S. approval for a planned buyout of 3Com, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The $2.2 billion transaction would still leave Huawei with 16.5 percent of the company and Bain holding the rest, said the Journal citing people familiar with […]

Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey. While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities, a We […]

Two groups representing China’s local musicians and songwriters have filed a lawsuit against the country’s Web search leader, Baidu.com, accusing it of copyright violation. The move signaled that domestic artists as well as international firms are disgruntled at the firm’s free music search service. [cob:Related_Articles]Baidu, whose search engine allows users to listen to and search […]

On Thursday Microsoft said it plans to cut prices of its Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move to push customers to switch to the newest version of Windows. The world’s largest software maker said it plans to lower retail prices for Vista in 70 countries later this year in tandem with […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors’ groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data. The long-rumored entry by Google into the highly sensitive field of health information came when Chief Executive Eric Schmidt introduced […]

eBay and MercExchange have settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said eBay on Thursday, ending a fight that prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In the settlement, Internet auction leader eBay will buy three patents from MercExchange needed to run its Web search, online auctions and fixed price sales, as well as other assets, for […]

VMware and Hewlett-Packard said on Tuesday they have signed an agreement to integrate VMware’s virtualization software into 10 models of HP’s computer servers. The companies said the joint offering will help customers adopt virtualization with greater speed and simplicity. [cob:Related_Articles]Virtualization technology allows a single server to perform the work of 10 or more machines by […]

Microsoft released the latest version of its Windows operating system for powerful servers on Wednesday, thrusting itself into the red-hot market for virtualization technology that allows one computer to act like many machines. Windows Server 2008 marks Microsoft’s first major challenge against VMware, the leader in virtualization, by building the technology into its core operating […]

The European Commission on Wednesday fined Microsoft a record 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) for using high prices to discourage software competition, in the latest sanction in their long-running battle. The executive arm of the European Union said the U.S. software group defied a 2004 order from Brussels to provide the information on reasonable terms. […]

A federal court which hears patent appeals told a lower court on Tuesday to reconsider damages that Microsoft must pay a Guatemalan inventor for infringing his software in its popular Office Suite. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit tossed out the damages award of 12 cents per copy because the lower court […]