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CA buys Nimsoft for $350m

CA inks a deal to acquire for $350 million Nimsoft, an IT service management player with customers in the managed service provider market.

Google stays ahead of Microsoft Bing

Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to grow slowly, but remains far behind Google, which has maintained its 70%-plus share of the market in recent months.

Microsoft Bing embedded in Google Android phones

Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

Internet access fundamental right, says BBC poll

A study by BBC World service found that four-fifths of adults around the world believe that Internet access is a fundamental human right.

Trademarks and security delay domain changes at ICANN meeting

Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.

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Microsoft could battle back with Internet Explorer

Industry watchers say Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser could help the software giant regain market share and get products in front of more customers.

Opera rushing to fix Windows vulnerability

Opera Software will soon patch a vulnerability in its Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on a Windows computer.

US lifts web export ban on Iran, Sudan, Cuba

The US Department of the Treasury has loosened controls on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, in an effort to spread free-speech freedoms to those countries, the agency said Monday.

FDIC: Hackers stole $120m in three months

Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost US companies US$25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Microsoft reworks browser ballot screen

Microsoft reworks browser ballot screen

Responding to reports last week that its European ballot screen was not truly randomising the positions of the top five browsers, Microsoft has changed the algorithm that shuffles the spots

UK cloud forum builds awareness

A quarter of British businesses don't understand what is meant by cloud computing

IE6 laid to rest in mock funeral

A mock funeral for Microsoft's Internet Explorer attracted 80-100 mourners, along with flowers and a card from the IE team at Microsoft.

Microsoft may announce Internet Explorer 9 at MIX 2010

Rumors are circulating that Microsoft could announce a beta of Internet Explorer 9 at the upcoming MIX 2010 conference. The new version is rumored to feature improved support for open web standards.

Microsoft spends more than 9 billion on research

Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion on research and development this year, which a senior executive said is more than any competitor.

Steve Ballmer backs cloud computing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at University of Washington about cloud computing, the company's strategy and why it's not just for techies.

European IT managers have cloud aversion

Barely one in five of European IT managers think that cloud computing represents a game-changing change in methodology for enterprises, roughly the same proportion that believes that cloud computing is a fad.

Microsoft browser ballot unfair, say small firms

Most of the developers whose browsers have been relegated to a second screen of the ballot Microsoft is now pushing to Europeans are mad as hell, and they won't take it anymore.

Investigation software snoops through social networks

Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data on social networks and Internet services and connects the dots.

CeBIT: Firefox researchers show off 3D graphics

A group of researchers plan to soon release a version of the Firefox browser that integrates the ability to view 3D graphics.

Microsoft browser ballot should go beyond EU, say rivals

A lobbying group composed of Microsoft rivals wants antitrust regulators worldwide to pressure the company into offering a browser ballot screen to their citizens.

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