Matthew Hicks

The tension between technology and business models is intensifying in the instant messaging market as the largest IM providers test new approaches for

Microsoft and Apple are being sued for patent infringement over the use of Web-based software-updating technology. London-based intellectual-property

Microsoft Corp. and Lindows Inc. have reached a $20 million settlement in their ongoing trademark feud, with Lindows agreeing to changes its name globally

Microsoft Corp. is connecting its Office Live Communications Server with the major public instant messaging networks in a move that analysts say removes a

PALO ALTO, Calif.—By trying to fit companies into old regulatory categories, the U.S. government is picking winners and losers in the

Internet Explorer users continued to hammer Microsoft with questions about the Web browser's security during an online discussion Thursday, but they also

The calls to dump Internet Explorer may be getting louder, but they are falling largely on deaf ears among enterprise users. IT managers and users say

A group of Web browser makers has banded together to make software plug-ins as functional in their own browsers as in Microsoft's dominant Internet

Microsoft's victory in a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday largely ends the Department of Justice's 6-year-old antitrust case against the software

TuVox has launched an updated version of its call center speech platform that can voice-enable information retrieved from databases and Web services.

The cost of spam is escalating for enterprises as the amount of unsolicited e-mail being sent continues to reach new heights, two new reports revealed

SAN DIEGO—Linux on end users' desktops remains largely elusive for enterprises, but the open-source operating system could become more attractive as