Microsoft took a high-profile baby step in the direction of software as a service, with the expected launch last week of its Live Software strategy. A substantial change in how the company does business, however, is still years off, analysts said.
 
At an event last week in San Francisco, Microsoft

Though New York City hasn't gone as far as San Francisco and Philadelphia in pushing for public access to wireless technology, but one non-profit group has taken steps to make it affordable.

NYCwireless announced this week that it has made broadband available in 120 housing units in the Bronx.

The

When ScanSource's Catalyst Telecom division signed a major distribution agreement with Juniper Networks recently, it represented a crucial piece to Catalyst's networking-solutions puzzle.

For some time, Catalyst had been searching for a vendor that could provide complementary networking gear to be featured alongside the technologies from its other top vendor partners: Avaya's VoIP

Microsoft is making a fresh move to bring more services to the Internet in a bid to fend off challenges from rivals like Google and Yahoo that could chip away at the customer base of the world's biggest software firm.
 
Microsoft recently unveiled a strategy for Web services based on

A lot has changed on Earth since Col. Al Worden floated far beyond its orbit - more than 200,000 miles away, alone in space.
Technology and cultural barriers have been broken. Private entrepreneurs have blasted through the Earth's orbit. And China has celebrated the completion of its second manned space mission. Read More...   Category: Hardware

In the first case of its kind in the U.S., federal authorities Thursday arrested a California man and charged him with accumulating a botnet of more than 400,000 machines, including some owned by the Department of Defense, then renting out the purloined PCs or using them himself to pocket tens of thousands in fees

The popular iPod Nano and the just-released video iPod are expected to lead a surge of holiday sales for Apple Computer. Research firm Fulcrum Global Partners predicts Apple will sell 10 million iPods in the fourth quarter, a strong follow-up to the 7 million sold in the previous quarter. But not all of these

Satellite television operator DirecTV is planning to deliver its television content to mobile devices, the Reuters news service reported Thursday.
The service said that DirecTV CEO Chase Carey told financial analysts in a conference call that the company was working with "an array of partners" to deliver television content to mobile devices.

The Mozilla Foundation has released a test preview of the next version of the Firefox browser, showing off the upcoming release's improved pop-up blocking, enhanced navigation and added support for Web standards.
 
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is available now from the Mozilla Foundation so that testers can make

A new method of communicating is creating intriguing services that beat old ways of sending information. But law enforcement makes a somber claim: These new networks will become a boon to criminals and terrorists unless the government can easily listen in.
 
This was the story line in the mid-1990s when