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A Version One survey revealed that 86 percent of IT professionals are concerned about their company's environmental impact, down 12 percent from a similar survey conducted in February 2007. La... More >
The Senate took a week off for the July 4 holiday instead of voting on controversial electronic surveillance legislation after Democrats kept throwing up hurdles that could have kept members into t... More >
So much for Microsoft's claims that it wouldn't go on a buying spree post-Yahoo, as reported in Financial Times . Its most recent deals include buying Portuguese mobile software company Mob... More >
Quicken and TurboTax maker Intuit plans to cut about 575 jobs -- about 7 percent of its workforce -- as part of a reorganization, reports Bloomberg in a story on SiliconValley.com. The res... More >
Yahoo is creating three new divisions as its tries to shore things up in the wake of a wave of executive departures . The company said the new divisions will help centralize its Internet pr... More >
As expected, Microsoft on Thursday announced it has released its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor to manufacturing, reports CRN . ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley had the jump on that story Wednesda... More >
Disappointing forecasts by Oracle and Research in Motion led a widespread stock plunge Thursday, reports MSN Money . Shares of GM were at a 53-year low while oil prices rose again. Tech sto... More >
In next month's update cycle, users can expect a reliability update from Microsoft for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 pushed out through Windows Update. While Vista SP1 has been included in previous... More >
After several delays, Microsoft finally released file format converters that allow Office 2004 for Mac to read the Open XML file formats introduced in Office 2007, reports Computerworld . T... More >
The blogosphere is abuzz again about the possibility of renewed talks between Microsoft and Yahoo. TechCrunch reports that multiple sources say the talks are back on , but it's not for a com... More >
The people have spoken and Microsoft listened, sort of. Apparently in the same letter in which the company committed to a release date for Windows 7 , Microsoft's Bill Veghte also told custo... More >
In a letter to business customers, Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed plans to ship its next operating system, Windows 7, around January 2010 , reports InfoWorld . In it, Senior Vice President B... More >
Silicon Valley startup ShotSpotter, which produces technology to pinpoint the source of gunfire , has found customers in 30 police jurisdictions and just raised $7.5 million in a new round of ventur... More >
While Carl Icahn has kept busy raising the blood pressure of executives at Motorola and Yahoo, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi says tech hardware companies could be the next target of activist in... More >
Oracle's plan to raise prices 15 to 20 percent across major product lines and SAP's 5 percent increase in support costs don't have customers jumping for joy, reports ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsma... More >
New York City? No, it's not the picante sauce commercial, but the reaction's the same. The Big Apple seems just an unlikely a place to be the tech job capital of the United States. But an Ame... More >
According to a recent report, IT departments can play a vital role in reducing energy consumption and emissions. Smart 2020 , released by the Climate Group and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative... More >
Oracle has agreed to acquire insurance software maker Skywire Software for an undisclosed sum, reports The Associated Press in The Boston Globe. Skywire's software helps insurers manage policy sa... More >
Massachusetts once again topped the list of states in a Milken Institute study for its ability to create economic growth from technology and science, while California for the first time fell out of... More >
Microsoft added more than 11,200 employees worldwide this fiscal year, which ends at the end of the month. The growth was largely due to acquisitions, notably its buyout of digital advertising com... More >
Many U.S. and Canadian ISPs noticed an unusual spike in traffic Monday and initially feared a distributed denial-of-service attack, reports The Arbor Networks Security Blog . The site inclu... More >
A group of investors has moved in to save a Wi-Fi project in Philadelphia abandoned by Earthlink, reports News.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Earthlink had spent about $17 mill... More >
The education minister in Queensland, Australia, wants to build a massive database to track student progress , reports Ars Technica . All 480,000 public school students would be required to ... More >
Microsoft plans to open a search technology center in Europe within the next year as it steps up investment in Live Search, reports Reuters . It hasn't yet selected a site for the center. The comp... More >
As everybody tries to get in on the "green" movement, Samsung has introduced two phones with plastic made from corn , reports PCWorld.com . While corn-based plastic isn't new, the idea has b... More >
OpenOffice.org has issued a patch for a security vulnerability that could allow a hacker to remotely execute code, reports Computerworld . The flaw affects Versions 2.0 through 2.4 of the open sou... More >
Send out the party invitations! For those of you inclined to help Mozilla attempt to set a record with downloads of Firefox 3, its release date has been set for June 17. Meanwhile, the compa... More >
Intermittent outages plagued Amazon again Monday, just when the problems from last week appeared to be fixed. Web monitoring company Keynote Systems reported the problems began after 1 p.m. ... More >
Austin, Texas-based chip maker Freescale Semiconductor is spinning off a business whose products use magnetism in storage, reports Bloomberg . Its products and patents on magnetoresistive r... More >
JetBlue's purchase of Verizon's Airfone business will allow it to offer e-mail and messaging services aboard planes. In announcing the buyout Monday, the companies declined to disclose terms of the ... More >
Broadcom's co-founder and former chief executive Henry Nicholas III faces a rash of drug charges laid out in an indictment Thursday in addition to those relating to stock-options backdating, repor... More >
The tit-for-tat between activist investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo is being ratcheted up in the battle for shareholders' hearts and minds. In a scathing letter Wednesday, Icahn demanded the board scrap a... More >
Verizon Communications has announced it will buy Alltel for about $28.1 billion , including the assumption of debt, reports The New York Times . It will pay $5.9 billion for the equity of Al... More >
Medical and graduate students at the University of California-Irvine have been victims of a data breach involving a health insurance plan from UnitedHealthcare, reports InfoWorld . So far,... More >
In a report on Web site safety, security company McAfee finds those with the Hong Kong domain (.hk) are most likely to be dangerous. It found that 19.2 percent of all Web sites ending with the... More >
Juicy details about Yahoo's attempts to fend off a Microsoft buyout are coming to light from a shareholder lawsuit. Reuters reports that the day before Microsoft made its initial bid, Yahoo d... More >
The United States remains the world leader in innovation across technology sectors, from software to clean tech, but Europe and Asia are gaining ground, according to a survey of worldwide venture cap... More >
Adobe is taking its Acrobat 9 office suite online with deep tie-ins to Flash and an online community for document sharing and collaboration. And the PDFs it creates might include dynamic maps... More >
Microsoft has announced that of June 1, it requires hardware makers to test their device drivers on Windows 7 to receive certification for Vista, reports Computerworld . It explained on its... More >
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