In a move aimed at speeding up development of new document management systems, Microsoft Corp. and Japan's Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. have agreed to a patent deal to use each other's technology.

Israel unfortunately is home to the most malicious Internet activity per Internet user, said Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report issued on Monday. The report covered the second half of 2006.

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, a security company's research said Monday.

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday joined The OpenAjax Alliance, which is focused on accelerating the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, technologies.

Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini is headed to Beijing for a "major announcement" next week.

Six years after Wikipedia.org debuted, editors at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have finally deigned to add the word "wiki" to the OED's online version.

China has taken over as the world's most botnet-infested country, as the sophistication and danger of cyberattackers continues to grow, according to Symantec.

Two years after first being announced by Seagate, the world's most secure hard drive is finally to go on sale in a laptop from system vendor ASI Computer Technologies.

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. are expanding a cooperative support offering from the U.S. to 46 other markets.

Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia user-generated and edited encyclopaedia, said he expects contributors to the site who claim certain credentials will soon have to prove they really have them.

Microsoft Corp. is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won't have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday.

In a world where Web-based applications have dominated the discourse lately, does the desktop still matter?

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on the U.S. Congress to raise the cap on skilled-worker visas, saying the county's economic future was at stake.

Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express.

Microsoft Corp. will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher quality images with better compression, the company said on Thursday.

These days, most MP3 players have voice-recording capabilities, but it's hard to forget that they're audio players first and voice recorders second.

Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit has picked a former Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. executive as its new chief operating officer (COO), the company said Monday.

Windows Vista's firewall can easily be subverted because of design decisions made by Microsoft Corp., a researcher at Symantec Corp. said Friday.

Still gasping from the resignation of its chief executive in January and an ongoing investigation of its accounting practices, Dell Inc. reported fourth quarter profits of US$673 million, down sharply from the $1 billion it reported for the same period last year.