A giant human billboard on a frosty January morning marked the long-anticipated mainstream launch for Microsoftصs two flagship products: Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007."The شwowص starts now,س the software maker promised. However, response outside of Redmond was more muted. Reviews for the software were decidedly mixed, while consumer demand

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday that Googles controversial $3.1 billion merger proposal with DoubleClick can proceed, despite earlier complaints raised by competitors and privacy advocates. FTC regulators had been reviewing the proposed merger for eight months for possible antitrust violations, after Google announced plans in

Mozilla fans can now download Firefox 3 beta 2 for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The new version sports a wide range of improvements over the first test version of the browser upgrade, most notably plugs for memory leaks, security fixes, and a download manager that includes improvements previously available only through plug-ins.The security enhancements

John W. Thompson is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Symantec Corporation. Under Thompsons leadership, Symantec has grown from a small consumer software publisher to a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world.Thompson and his team have grown

By Reuters: The launch of Apples latest operating system, Leopard, was its best ever, a research group said Monday. When comparing the first full month of sales of Apple Mac OS 10.5 زLeopard (November 2007) to the first full month of sales for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger (May 2005), dollar volume for Leopard was up 32.8 percent, and unit volume was up 20.5 percent,

Canon has released new firmware, version 1.0.6, for the EOS-1Ds Mark III, the companys $8,000 21.1-megapixel flagship SLR camera. The update improves the reliability of communication with some CompactFlash cardsس and زfixes a phenomenon involving color cast and vertical lines appearing in images,س the company said on the firmware download website.