Jeremy Kirk

Macedonia and Microsoft Corp. announced Monday several e-government Web sites have opened as part of a two-year-old partnership agreement to enhance IT in the Eastern European country.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has started recruiting some of the 4,500 employees the company aims to hire over the next two years in India, a move that will double its head count in the country, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Identity thieves may have stolen a higher number of personnel records in a growing fraud case that has seen the use of those records to illegally route tax credits to their bank accounts, British government officials said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. has detailed several changes in the way its upcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7 browser will classify Web sites for security, aiming to reduce the likelihood that users will fall victim to malicious code. The current version, IE 6, has four classifications for Web sites -- Internet, local intranet, trusted and restricted -- which allow users to apply different security rules for how the browser interacts with groups of Web sites. The browser uses the settings to determine, for example, if it will run Active X controls without first alerting the user.

Microsoft Corp. fleshed out its roadmap for transitioning customers to 64-bit computing and unveiled updates to several of its management and server products at its IT Forum 2005 conference in Barcelona this month.

Microsoft Corp. fleshed out its road map for transitioning customers to 64-bit computing and unveiled updates to several of its management and server products at its IT Forum 2005 conference in Barcelona on Tuesday.

As viruses and malicious software bloom, senior executives across a range of industries see security as their top concern in implementing converged IP (Internet Protocol) networks, according to a joint study released Tuesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and AT&T Corp.

In a product launch hailed as one of the biggest in the company's history, Microsoft Corp. officially released SQL Server 2005 on Monday, its first upgrade of the database software in five years in a heated enterprise market.