06:43 20.05.2006
SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, would be open to a merger or a takeover by companies such as IBM, Microsoft or Google, if the price were right, one of SAP's co-founders and biggest shareholders said.
AOL is set to offer its instant-messaging users a free phone number to use for incoming calls, and for a fee, the ability to call regular phones from the software.
Open Text Corp. shares fell Friday, as a slew of surprised analysts downgraded their ratings and targets on the management software company after it posted disappointing results in the latest quarter.
CEO Steve Ballmer said Microsoft Corp. plans to double spending on research and development at its MSN Internet unit as the company focuses on software services.
Software giant will also release fixes for Exchange flaws as part of patch Tuesday.
In the struggle between Apple and Microsoft for the minds and hearts of computer users, clearly Microsoft has come out ahead. Despite its second-place finish in the operating-system race, however, Apple continues to fight and win key popularity battles on the secondary hardware and music fronts.
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday plans to release three patches for several of its software products, including at least two critical updates for known vulnerabilities, according to the company's monthly security update.
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered a self-styled Spam King to pay back more than$4 million that he made by hoodwinking users into buying anti-spyware software to fix imaginary problems.
A missing parenthesis in the software that checks a user's ID allowed local users to execute code with root privileges.
Sun Microsystems' Java Platform Enterprise Edition 5 has been approved by the Java Community Process.
Microsoft CIO Ron Markezich, who has been in that post for two years and helped manage the company's internal IT for 11 years, is a beta-tester and true believer: "Microsoft products are the best out there.
