Stacy Cowley

Massachusetts filed Friday an appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's recent Microsoft Corp. antitrust settlement ruling, a case it expects to pursue alone as the other non-settling states accept Kollar-Kotelly's remedy and focus on enforcement, state Attorney General Tom Reilly said during a press conference.

Dell Computer Corp. was the only top-five vendor to post year-over-year revenue growth in the server market during the third quarter, according to research released Wednesday by International Data Corp. (IDC).

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took its first enforcement actions Monday under a fair disclosure rule enacted in 2000, citing three companies, including Siebel Systems Inc., for violations.

NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. borrowed some of Broadway's glamour for its Thursday Tablet PC send-off, during which Bill Gates and a host of top executives from companies manufacturing the devices gathered at the Ambassador Theatre here to demo and publicize the new PCs.

IBM Corp. plans to combine its storage and server divisions at the start of next year, and will shift storage head Linda Sanford to take charge of the "on-demand" computing initiatives outlined last week by IBM Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano, according to a source familiar with the plan.

IBM Corp. plans to combine its storage and server divisions at the start of next year.

Just a few days after trumpeting its alliance with Microsoft Corp. and announcing plans to incorporate .Net technology into its own products, Siebel Systems Inc. is offering reassurances about its commitment to .Net rival Java by reaffirming its partnership with Java creator Sun Microsystems Inc.

Borland Software Corp. has agreed to acquire fellow application development software maker Starbase Corp. for US$24 million in cash, the companies said Wednesday.