Microsoft today released its security software patches for April, addressing an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer that hackers had been exploiting for several weeks.

As expected, the company released five patches, called "updates" in Microsoft parlance, addressing a number of critical vulnerabilities in IE and Windows. Microsoft also released an update for Outlook

Exabyte is trying to expand its small business backup market with a pair of new tape automation devices and a new tape drive with on-demand capacity upgradeability.

The Boulder, Colo.-based tape drive and automation vendor on Monday started shipping the Magnum 224 LTO library, with one or two half-height LTO-2 drives or

Homeowners and renters can select interior design plans online or at kiosks through City Furniture thanks to new software designed by IBM.
 
IBM announced Monday that its WebSphere, DB2, and DB2 Everywhere, combined with xSeries servers, are powering City Furniture's Academy of Design, a unique multi-channel retail solution.

The

Yahoo Inc. is introducing an upgraded travel service on Tuesday that blends the breadth of Yahoo search with handy travel-specific features, stepping up its challenge to dedicated travel sites.

Using Yahoo's central search site, consumers can receive instant airfare and hotel price comparisons, satellite overview maps and user reviews of restaurants and

Consumers unable to ignore the lure of getting more for less money have caused a resurgence in PC desktop sales, pushing annual growth rates for the last five months in the low double digits, a market research firm said Monday.

Despite the hotter notebook market, people have continued to buy desktops, as

Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this year will get some open-source competition. Linux proponents plan to hold the first-ever FreedomHEC conference for Linux hardware engineers immediately following the Microsoft gathering in late May.
 
The first-ever FreedomHEC conference, scheduled to begin in Seattle the day after WinHEC with free admission for

Mobile WiMAX is expected to get its U.S. introduction early next year in Michigan by broadband provider Arialink. The broadband connectivity provider plans to use equipment provided by Samsung Telecommunications America.

In an announcement Friday, Arialink said it expects the deployment in Muskegon County will be the first commercial mobile WiMAX installation

Only one week has passed since Apple made its historic announcement that newly developed software called Boot Camp would enable Intel-based Mac computers to run Windows XP. But the initial wave of glee that greeted the revelation has evolved into a distinctly underwhelmed and skeptical attitude among Apple fans and media outlets.
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Skype Technologies has acquired Internet voice technology company Sonorit Holding and its U.S. subsidiary, Camino Networks, for about $27 million in eBay stock, Skype announced Tuesday.
 
Skype, which is owned by eBay, made the acquisition to add the companies' online voice engineering experts to its staff, it said. They will help

On Monday, Cisco Systems unveiled a new solution that will help enterprise VARs offer more robust and secure application delivery while creating ongoing revenue streams.

Targeted primarily at large enterprises that want to consolidate data centers and server farms, the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE), a multifunction module for the Catalyst 6500 switch,