The world's software leader Microsoft impressed China's President Hu Jintao with a tour of its most advanced technological innovations, including the "Home of the Future."
 
Comfortably and tastefully furnished, the facility in Microsoft's Redmond Campus, just outside Seattle, is a model of the type of high-tech home the company envisions

Consumer search darling Google will share the stage with a gaggle of prominent enterprise application vendors Wednesday to announce Google OneBox for Enterprise, a new feature that will enable the company's Google Search Appliances to do real-time searches on business applications.
 
The OneBox feature will allow Google Search Appliances to

In an effort to secure a position in Internet-based television, AT&T Inc. reported an agreement Tuesday with Akimbo Systems to offer Internet-based video-on-demand to its Homezone TV service subscribers. The service begins this summer.

The AT&T Homezone service, being trialed within several states, integrates AT&T Yahoo! high-speed Internet and AT&T DISH Network

Microsoft is preparing a Virtual Server Manager code-named Carmine that will enable users to add, move and manage virtual machines on its virtualization platform.

The product, currently called Microsoft Virtual Server Manager, will allow broad support for administration via "Monad," Microsoft's next-generation scripting platform for Windows Longhorn Server and Exchange 12, according

The long legal battle between Apple Computer and Burst.com just became more complicated. On Monday, Burst.com filed suit against Apple, alleging that Apple's iTunes software as well as the media-streaming technology used in QuickTime violate Burst.com's patents.
 
Filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco, the suit claims that Apple

SonicWall spent 2005 expanding its technology portfolio, and this year the security vendor aims to help partners address the needs of small and midsize businesses.

John DiLullo, vice president of worldwide sales at SonicWall, said in a keynote Tuesday at the vendor's Peak Performance conference in Las Vegas that 2005 was a

Microsoft is still holding many specifics about Windows Vista — pricing among them — close to the vest. But Redmond's reticence to talk isn't stopping company watchers from speculating.
 
Goldman Sachs & Co. analyst Rick Sherlund issued a research note earlier this month, noting that Goldman is now figuring Microsoft

Burst.com filed a patent counterclaims lawsuit in the Federal District Court in San Francisco on Monday accusing Apple of infringing on four of its patents. Burst claims that Apple’s iTunes Music Store, iTunes software, the iPod devices and Apple’s QuickTime Streaming products are all affected by the patents.
 
Burst filed

CNET Networks on Monday said it will launch "CNET TV," a new video on demand network over cable, on digital video recorders made by TiVo and on the Internet as it broadens its reach to viewers.
 
The company, known for its gadget reviews and technology industry news, said it has

English-speaking minority groups are the leading adopters of broadband and IP communications such as VoIP, says a new study from the US Internet Industry Association (USIIA).

The study found that more than 90% of English-speaking Asian-Americans and 80% of English-speaking Hispanics use IP and broadband services, a higher rate than the 74%