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 Late last month Dell upped its cost-shaving target from $3 billion to $4 billion by February 2011 and last Wednesday it started laying off hundreds of its people globally. It won’t say how many or where. Its factories in North Carolina and Tennessee were hit. In its last fiscal year, e...Mar. 20, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 788 |
 Telstra, the big Australian telecoms house, has pulled out of fraud-beset Indian outsourcer Satyam according to the Australian, which puts the value of the applications support contract at $21 million a year. It’s reportedly moving the account, worth roughly 35% of Satyam’s Australian ...Mar. 20, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,192 |
 When Google lost Tim Armstrong, the guy running its US and South American sales, the source of most of its revenue, to AOL, where he’s going to be CEO and chairman, it moved quickly to fill the key spot and named its top UK ad exec Dennis Woodside to succeed Armstrong. The UK is Google...Mar. 20, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 831 |
 Microsoft has pushed out Internet Explorer 8. PC arbiter Walt Mossberg, who calls the browser arguably the most important piece of software on a computer, says it’s a big improvement over IE7 and a “much closer competitor to its main rival, Mozilla’s Firefox.” It’s more stable, more co...Mar. 20, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,436 |
 Time Warner dumped the misbegotten team of AOL CEO and chairman Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant late Thursday and wheeled in Tim Armstrong, until that minute Google’s Americas sales chief, as CEO and chairman. Mar. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,258 |
 The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation of Google's cloud computing services including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Desktop, Google Calendar and Picasa to determine "the adequacy of the privacy and ...Mar. 18, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,633 |
 No sooner was Google over a reportedly limited Google Docs security breach this weekend when Gmail started acting up, giving the Google cloud, in particular, and all clouds, in general, another black eye. Some Gmail users were without service all day Tuesday and that's on the heels of ...Mar. 11, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,480 |
 Interesting developments in the world of unified multi-cloud computing. Appistry an early pioneer in enterprise cloud computing, today announced a new product that gives companies the power to migrate their heterogeneous applications to cloud-based environments. Called Appistry CloudIQ...Mar. 9, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,799 |
 It's official. Microsoft is going to let PC users turn its browser off in Windows 7 to keep the European Commission at bay. The EC's latest indictment of Microsoft accuses it of the antitrust sin of tying Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, a charge brought by Opera and ...Mar. 9, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,063 |
 Some users of Google's vaunted Google Docs service discovered this weekend that behind their backs the widgetry has been sharing some of their documents with folks who were never authorized to see them. There are at least three things that might keep a cloud user up at night: fear the ...Mar. 9, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,933 |
 Microsoft went into the Live Search reconstruction business last year and is now starting to test the rebranded Kumo.com redesign internally. Kumo is a codename that surfaced months ago. It’s unclear whether it will stick. BoomTown says the word means both spider and cloud in Japanese....Mar. 4, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 777 |
 In her first public appearance Tuesday since her apotheosis Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz laid down terms. If there are going to be talks with Microsoft, they're going to be private, not in the press, a perimeter she's apparently already communicated to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.Mar. 4, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,597 |
 Intel and Dell have moved to snuff out the trademark claims of Psion Teklogix, the Ontario-based Anglo-Canadian concern that has been sending cease-and-desist letters to PC manufacturers, retailers, the media and bloggers since right before Christmas maintaining that it owns the word "...Feb. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 818 |
 Search Engines, especially Google, are emphasizing too much on showing local search results to searchers. They are of the view that localized search is supposed to be more relevant to searchers. But in this article I would like to share my view on this approach of Search Engines. What ...Feb. 26, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 903 |
 Lanner Electronics, a designer and ODM manufacturer of advanced platforms for network security and other LAN/WAN applications, has announced the release of its miniature fanless network application platform – the Lanner FW-7522. Specifications for the FW-7522 include an onboard Intel C...Feb. 23, 2009 09:15 AM EST Reads: 955 |
 A wannabe B2B search engine company called TradeComet.com has sued Google for antitrust charging Google with predatory conduct aimed at driving it out of business by "imposing massive, unjustified price increases" on its keyword search rates.Feb. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 961 |
 uTest and AutomatedQA have announced that the two companies have formed a strategic partnership to offer a combined package of automated testing and community-based software testing services. The two companies will develop integrated features and services to enable uTest's community of...Feb. 18, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 737 |
 Memopal has announced the release of Memopal Cloud Search, a new tool that simplifies and speeds online file search. Searching dozens and dozens of folders in your remote archive to find the document you need out of hundreds of thousands of other files may be difficult and time-onsumin...Feb. 16, 2009 08:15 PM EST Reads: 1,328 |
 IDC’s EMEA storage research team says that storage is “far less likely to experience spending cuts during these difficult economic times than other technologies such as PCs, printers, servers and networking equipment.” That is not to say there won’t be “a short-term shift towards tacti...Feb. 16, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 668 |
 Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a high-profile adviser of Barack Obama, will effectively be crossing the aisle to advise Britain’s Tories on wresting control of the UK government from the ascendant but increasingly unpopular Labor Party in the next general election. Conservative Party leader ...Feb. 16, 2009 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,001 |
 EUROstor has announced a new generation of ES-8700 iSCSI RAID systems, which, in addition to the already existing replication between two systems, also offers automatic failover. With this product, a cluster solution can be installed that fulfils the need for high availability. These i...Feb. 13, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,107 |
 Raritan has introduced a flexible "neighborhood" configuration and other features to its CommandCenter Secure Gateway for managing IT equipment in data centers and branch offices. With the new neighborhood feature, multiple CC-SG units and the IT equipment connected to them can be mana...Feb. 10, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 721 |
 Google wants Time Warner to spin off AOL into its own public company or buy back Google’s 5% let’s-keep-Microsoft-out stake in the joint at fair market value, a demand it’s justified in making by the terms of their three-year-old arrangement. Hard as it is to believe, when the deal was...Feb. 6, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 754 |
 A February 12 online seminar presented by Comodo will tell e-merchants how to build their customer bases by increasing customer trust. The webinar will explain the basics of providing the secure website that online shoppers demand. It will also talk about ways to communicate security m...Feb. 5, 2009 04:42 PM EST Reads: 1,418 |
 After looking for a while there like a shoe-in, Symantec’s outgoing CEO John W Thompson is NOT going to be secretary of commerce in the Obama administration. Instead the new president crossed party lines again and picked Republican Senator Judd Gregg from New Hampshire. Presumably Mr. ...Feb. 3, 2009 02:27 PM EST Reads: 1,406 |
 "Our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled," wrote Google Search VP Marissa Mayer yesterday, in a blogged explanation of the unfortunate fact than most Google searches conducted between 6:30AM-7:25AM PST o...Feb. 1, 2009 05:23 AM EST Reads: 2,922 |
 Saying its fallen prey to the downturn, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Silicon Valley’s star law firm, terminated 45 of its 660 lawyers and 68 staff including secretaries and paralegals on Monday. It’s also freezing associate salaries, according to The Recorder, which says that Vall...Jan. 30, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 842 |
 Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, there all of eight days and already sounding a bit like her predecessor Jerry Yang, said Tuesday that “I didn’t come here to sell the company.” The occasion was her first post-earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts. She didn’t exactly rule out selling...Jan. 30, 2009 05:52 AM EST Reads: 1,664 |
 Small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Asia-Pacific excluding the Japan region will spend $6.5 billion more in 2009 compared with the year before. Chinese, Korean, and Indian SMBs make up more than 50% of Asia Pacific spending, according to a latest study by New York-based Access Ma...Jan. 28, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,215 |
 Complaining that ad budgets have tightened by "hundreds of millions of dollars," and as part of its turnaround plan, now in year two, AOL is going to cut over 10% of its staff, about 700 people, skip pay raises this year and consolidate facilities in an attempt to contain costs. Most o...Jan. 28, 2009 05:41 PM EST Reads: 846 |
 Eighteen-month-old Lucid Imagination rose above the covering ground fog Tuesday to announce its existence as the first open source company to commercially support the Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies. The Java-based Lucene search library is one of the top 15 open source proje...Jan. 28, 2009 01:06 AM EST Reads: 1,678 |
 Microsoft has another reason to eat its liver. Google did fine in the fourth quarter. It did better than fine. Like Apple and IBM, it beat estimates in a lousy environment. According to CEO Eric Schmidt, “Search query growth was strong, revenues were up in most verticals, and we succes...Jan. 23, 2009 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,868 |
 The founder of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Ramalinga Raju, has been accused of inflating the number of people who work for the big Indian outsourcer by 13,000 to siphon off their phony wages. The company is supposed to have 53,000 people, less 2,000 who left recently. Authorities cla...Jan. 23, 2009 01:15 AM EST Reads: 2,203 |
 With demand sucking wind and an inventory stockpile still to sell, Intel said that it would shutter five manufacturing operations – two assembly test facilities in Malaysia and one in the Philippines as well as a 200mm wafer fabrication plant in Oregon and wafer production in Californi...Jan. 22, 2009 04:15 AM EST Reads: 1,605 |
 Circuit City Stores, the second-largest US consumer electronics chain, is going to liquidate its assets. It said Friday that efforts to sell or refinance its operations and keep its doors open had failed. It will now close its 567 remaining US shops and turn another 30,000 people out o...Jan. 18, 2009 06:30 AM EST Reads: 3,214 |
 According to Valleywag, the hit-or-miss gossip blog, Yahoo’s shiny new CEO Carol Bartz told an all-hands meeting her first day on the job that she’d dropkick to Mars anyone whose company gossip ended up on the blogs.Jan. 17, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,880 |
Authoria has announced the appointment of Joseph Kaddis, Jr. as vice president of sales. He brings 18 years of enterprise software industry sales experience, the majority of which has been spent in high-growth companies such as Microsoft and Hyperion, to this post. He joins Authoria wi... Jan. 15, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,695 |
| "Let's give this company some friggin' breathing room." With those immortal words Carol Bartz, an apparently less-than-popular replacement for her altogether unpopular and incompetent predecessor Jerry Yang, ended her introduction to the press and Wall Street as Yahoo's new CEO Tuesday... Jan. 14, 2009 06:20 AM EST Reads: 3,833 |
 The Wall Street Journal thinks that this might be the week Yahoo finally names its long overdue replacement for CEO Jerry Yang and the latest name to surface as a possible is that of Autodesk executive chairman and former CEO Carol Bartz, a veteran of Sun and DEC and, like Steve Jobs, ...Jan. 13, 2009 12:16 PM EST Reads: 3,707 |
 Intel said Wednesday morning that its Q4 results, due out next week, are gonna be lousy – which won’t come as a surprise to anybody given all the warning signs; it was just a matter of how bad; now we know. Intel, a harbinger of how things are going throughout high tech, said revenue w...Jan. 9, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,613 |
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