IBM got a leg up on Microsoft this week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, when it performed a "groundbreaking technology demonstration," moving a live SAP application from one cloud-based server to another. This would hardly be considered groundbreaking in the context of an on-premise data cent...

Intel sues Nvidia over whether the latter can sell chipsets for new Intel CPUs; a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors has been struck down; the Vista Capable lawsuit is no longer a class action; one search engine sues Google for antitrust; Google wins privacy s...

Microsoft's hiring slowdown hasn't translated to a complete hiring freeze. Among the newest of the Red-Pill poppers is Dick Hard, known for his take on the "Identity 2.0" concept and his porting of the Perl language to Windows. by Mary Jo Foley...

The future historians of the nerd ascendancy will likely note that the great empowerment phase began in the 1980s with the rise of Microsoft and the digital economy....

Yahoo may look like the big loser. But here’s a lesson for Microsoft: When you make an unsolicited offer, be prepared to win....

The Microsoft-Yahoo merger died before it had a chance to live, but that doesn’t mean the blogosphere is letting MicroHoo go without a wake....

During the past week when the tech headlines seemed to be dominated by an increasingly hostile attempted takeover by Microsoft of Yahoo, someone at Tech Confidential did something clever - sat in and listened while Oracle executives talked at a conference about how to do smart takeovers. Oracle pret...

This week's court victory for Impulse Media Group, an operator of pornographic Web sites that had been accused of illegal spamming, was a loss for the Federal Trade Commission. The agency brought... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu...

I know this marks me as oh-so-last century, but one American military officer fighting in Vietnam was quoted as saying, "We had to destroy the village to save it." In other words, to prevent the village from falling into the hands of the Commies, it had to be torched.  We're seeing some of that sam...

Have you heard about the storm worm? It's a particularly nasty computer virus that's been popping up all year in different forms. What's different about this virus is that it has a business model and is actually making money for the people who created it. And those people are using that money to pay...