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The results are in: Microsoft sold significantly more copies of the Windows 7 operating system in the week after its official launch than was achieved by Windows Vista in 2007. To be precise,... Read more...

Google went public with its Data Liberation Front project yesterday, which represented the company's commitment against user lock-in. According to its FAQ, the Data Liberation Front is an in-house... Read more...

Popular social networking site Twitter is being used to control botnets, according to Jose Nazario, who is a Senior Security Researcher from Arbor Networks. Botnets are computers infected with... Read more...

Oh what a difference a year makes. The loud, unrelenting demand to expand the number of H-1B visas available for software companies, IT firms and other employers, in order to hire foreign workers has... Read more...

Indisputably the dominant computing platform of choice, the Windows Operating System looks set to remain that way for many more years to come. Microsoft is certainly not content to take things... Read more...

How does a CIO get approval for new technology projects in tight budgetary times? Greg Baker, the CFO of technology provider Logicalis, said the issue is not always money, but the ability of the CIO... Read more...

Linux users who are fans of Google Gadget can start rejoicing now - Google has announced the Read more...

Apparently not even Google can always get its way, at least when it comes to hiring foreign nationals and having them stay in the U.S. Like so many others in the IT field, Google claims to be... Read more...

Beverly Magda,the Humane Society's CIO, writes in InformationWeek how her organization's fundraising efforts have been aided by new IT applications to support secure credit card transactions. Turning... Read more...

A new survey has found that fewer than 1 in 12 programmers currently are writing applications targeting Windows Vista, with most still sticking with ASP.Net and Windows Forms applications and finding... Read more...