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Mandriva aims for the enterprise
Insight Following the launch of Corporate Server 4.0, Mandriva chief executive François Bancilhon discusses how the company plans to win over the enterprise community.
Google's video replay
News Search giant's new video-ad auction service should fare better than lackluster Google Video launch, experts say.
Tags: Web sites, Video, Internet advertising
Microsoft sets summer delivery of SQL Server
News Company pushes back third beta program of database to early next year; says final product is on track for next summer.
Tags: Database management, Databases
RIM records all employee calls
News BlackBerry maker Research in Motion concedes it recorded all staff conversations in order to keep control of intellectual property.
Tags: Privacy, Generation Y, RIM BlackBerry, Chief Information Officer, Research In Motion Ltd., Device, Sydney, intellectual property, CIO, internal network
Commentary: Has Microsoft gone soft on piracy?
Insight Microsoft is perpetually scourged by software pirates but in a paroxysm of compassion, the computing giant will soon go easy on the culprits. Or are they?
Mozilla plans two more Firefox 3 betas
News Mozilla plans for next beta; about 500,000 copies of beta 1 downloaded so far.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Web 2.0
Microsoft testers get an eyeful
News In a brief security lapse, early testers of Microsoft software had access to discussions on all of the company's products, rather than just the programs they were trying out.
My Yahoo start page gets new beginning
News Beta version of revamped personalized home page is available for now to a limited number of members.
Public beta of IE 7 nears
News Windows XP users may get the chance to try out the Microsoft browser's new features early next year.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers
Microsoft planning Google storage service rival
News The software giant is expected to move into online storage, with a service that could rival Google's rumoured Gdrive.
Tags: Storage
Beta of Office more widely available
News Microsoft makes a "technical refresh" for the second test version of Office 2003 available to all 600,000 beta testers. It was initially available only to a select group.
Microsoft updates Vista SP1 test build
News Software maker says it is still on track to wrap up work on the service pack this quarter, with Windows XP Service Pack 3 planned before the end of June.
Tags: Windows Vista
Making 1GB downloads easier to swallow
News Sending big files such as photos is difficult and cumbersome. Will peer-to-peer e-mail do the trick?
Tags: Peer to peer, Web services
Microsoft rolls up Office ribbon
News After beta tester complaints, company lets users set new menu system to automatically minimize when not in use.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky number for IE
News Software maker launches its first major update to the browser in years, offering tabbed browsing and security additions.
Tags: Web browsers
