Microsoft Corp. scored an important win against rival Google Inc. over the weekend, as Amazon.com began using its technology to power the Internet retailer's A9 search unit.
 
Microsoft's new Windows Live is at the core of the company's efforts to win online advertising dollars away from Google Inc. and

The movie and record industries have sent letters to 40 universities, asking them to take immediate action to stop piracy of films and music on campus networks.

The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America said they sent the letters to college presidents in 25 states, alerting

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday announced new data storage hardware and software offerings, broadening its focus on the fast-growing storage industry and aiming to build on its $4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology Corp.
 
Some of the products bring identity management to data storage -- essentially controlling who in a

In the seemingly never-ending quest to help clients move beyond banner ads and informational Web sites, interactive shops are beefing up their ability to assist brands in developing their own online games.
 
Tribal DDB, Organic, R/GA and other Web shops say gaming is a way to deliver more immersive brand

Advance Micro Devices Inc. on Friday said that it has discovered a potential heat problem with a small percentage of Opteron chips run under extreme conditions, and said as many as 3,000 processors at customer sites could be affected.

The Sunnyvale, Calif., chipmaker said it was making available diagnostic tools for identifying

If one characteristic of a utopian society is that you can make free phone calls to anyone in the world, then utopia has come a little closer to reality. On Friday, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) giant Skype announced it had reached 100 million registered users worldwide.
 
Skype's free service

A start-up security company on Friday unveiled a beta of zero-day exploit protection software that it claims will protect users' PCs until they can apply patches from the likes of Microsoft.

SocketShield, which can be downloaded free-of-charge from the Web site of Exploit Prevention Labs, is a signature-based monitor that detects and

Microsoft Corp. has ramped up shipments of its Xbox 360 console to widen its head start on video game rival Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, the software giant's chief financial officer said Thursday.

The world's largest software maker raised the bottom line of its Xbox 360 sales target range for the year ending June

Microsoft Corp. is backing up its talk of investing in Web services with cash, months after chairman Bill Gates called the company to arms over an Internet "sea change" in which software and services become delivered over the Web.
 
Next year the company will invest $2 billion more than expected

Bob Bales and Roger Thompson hit it big with their last venture, antispyware company PestPatrol. Now the two have launched a new company. Their target: drive by downloads and zero day exploits, like the recent Windows Meta File (WMF). ADVERTISEMENT
 
The new company, Exploit Prevention Labs, will launch on Monday with