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BOSTON (Reuters) – Hackers launched an attack on Facebook’s 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said on Thursday that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc unveiled a slew of new and future features on Tuesday, including one that will allow people to better coordinate Internet searches on their cell phones and computers and another that will produce sophisticated automated research reports. At a briefing at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, executives demonstrated tools […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission fined Intel Corp a record 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) on Wednesday and ordered it to halt illegal rebates and other practices used to squeeze out rival AMD. “Given that Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for over […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM Corp is set to begin selling a long-awaited software aimed at helping companies analyze real-time data, ranging from traffic data to manufacturing processes, to find more efficient ways to run their business. IBM, which has shifted its focus from computers to higher-margin software and services over the past decade, said […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday said speculation the company may buy German software firm SAP was a ‘random rumor.’ “I have nothing to say about rumors of acquisitions … positively or negatively,” he told reporters in Mumbai, when asked about an acquisition of SAP. “It strikes me as a […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is on track to release its new Windows 7 operating system in time for the holiday shopping season, an executive said on Monday, confirming talk it is ahead of its own conservative schedule for replacing the unpopular Vista system. The world’s largest software company has so far been vague on […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Software piracy grew last year, accounting for 41 percent of all PC software installed, with losses to companies estimated at $53 billion, the Business Software Alliance said on Tuesday. Worldwide piracy rates rose from 38 percent of software in business and home computers in 2007 to 41 percent in 2008 despite successes […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said he expects more regulatory scrutiny from around the world and the company is paying more attention to the way it approaches certain business issues as a result of the attention. But Schmidt told reporters it had not crossed his mind to recuse himself from […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s next version of Windows is stirring fresh complaints of anticompetitive behavior from rivals who say the new version of the operating system gives unfair advantage to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, the Financial Times reported. “Our initial review suggests this is a blatant use of the Windows operating system to change the […]

ALSO SEE: 85 Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud Web-based business software sales are growing briskly, even as most of the industry stalls, as the segment pioneered by Salesforce.com benefits from the weak economy and fading concerns about security. Gartner Research now expects 2009 sales of so-called cloud-based software to grow 22 percent to […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it is laying off more workers, almost completing its plan to cut 5,000 jobs by June 2010, and left the door open for yet more job cuts. “As we move forward, we will continue to closely monitor the impact of the economic downturn on the company and […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple Inc’s iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S., research group NPD said on Monday. RIM, which already dominates the corporate smartphone market in the United States, also had three of the top five best-selling consumer […]