Elizabeth Montalbano

Microsoft will unwrap a speech recognition-enabled phone system Monday designed to give small businesses a flexible alternative to a public branch exchange , the company said.

Oracle Tuesday announced plans to extend the capability of its system management software to offer monitoring and management for SAP AG applications through a partnership with Nimsoft.

Nearly a year after Microsoft introduced Windows Live OneCare, the company's first foray into the security market is still getting low marks from analysts and users.

On the sidelines of the recent LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York, Kim Polese, SpikeSource CEO shared how her firm does what it takes to get a "competitive edge" in a fiercely competitive market.

Despite its CEO's claims that Microsoft eventually will trump Google to be number one in online search revenue, the company's online business is "massively underperforming" against the competition, according to a leading financial analyst.

Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday

Microsoft Corp. said it will seek to invalidate claims by a California company that has sued it for trademark infringement over the "Office Live" name.

Microsoft Corp. must pay US$1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday. Some reports are calling the decision the largest patent decision in history.