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A former McAfee marketing executive and her husband have been charged with stealing $3.8 million from the security software company, reports The San Jose Mercury News . Former product marke... More >
Cogent Communications says Sprint-Nextel has dropped out of its peering agreement, which could cause network slowdown and decreased Web performance for the two networks' customers. Under the a... More >
Sun has put a number on the big loss it warned about a couple of weeks ago. In its first quarter, the server maker reported a net loss of $1.68 billion , or $2.24 a share, compared with net... More >
Google is joining the OpenID movement , announcing its support for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, reports CNET News . Now GMail users can sign in to sites such as Plaxo, AOL, MySpace and Zoho using existi... More >
The mashup Twitter Vote Report aims to help people deal with the many expected problems of election day , according to Adam Ostrow on Mashable . By adding syntax such as "#machine," "#reg,... More >
Peripherals maker Logitech will enter the software market with its $30 million acquisition of video-communications services provider SightSpeed, reports TechCrunch . Purchase of the 25-pers... More >
Sun announced it will expand its "Try and Buy" promotion that allows businesses to use its servers for 60 days before deciding whether to buy them, reports vnunet.com . The new promotion al... More >
eWEEK calls Windows 7 a big improvement over Vista , a statement that seems to be faint praise for Microsoft's next operating system, which, by the way, already has its first security patch . &nbs... More >
An updated version of Microsoft's Windows Live Mail application will unite all of a user's Web mail and instant messaging accounts and associated contacts lists. vnunet.com reports that the... More >
Yahoo's Zimbra, which already runs 2 million e-mail boxes on college campuses as on-premise software, is moving to the cloud , reports InformationWeek . Zimbra, which Yahoo acquired a year a... More >
After warning earlier this month that its orders had declined dramatically , it came as no surprise that the arrows pointed down on SAP's quarterly earnings report. It said profits for the q... More >
Microsoft's cloud-computing platform Azure will call for more computing capacity, so the company plans to expand the number of servers in its data centers 15-fold in the next five years, reports Inf... More >
The San Francisco Chronicle offers an early look at the voluntary guidelines written by companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for operating in countries that censor speech . The thre... More >
HSBC will team with t-mac Technologies to reduce energy consumption in its retail outlets by 20 percent. Using smart building management systems from t-mac, HSBC will be able to monitor ap... More >
Sun Microsystems has released a new update to its Java platform known as Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10 to improve its performance on desktop computers, reports eWEEK . The Wash... More >
Investment Southeastern Asset Management announced it has increased its holdings to 21 percent of Sun Microsystems stock and it wants to be more active in management of the company, reports Compu... More >
CenturyTel, the local phone provider for rural areas of Alabama and Missouri, has agreed to buy larger rival Embarq Corp. for about $5.8 billion in stock, reports Bloomberg. Embarq, the for... More >
Just this week, Yahoo announced it will cut 1,500 jobs . But it's also planning to open two facilities in the Omaha, Neb., area and will be required to create jobs there to receive state tax break... More >
Audio and video editing software maker Avid Technology plans to cut 410 jobs and will sell its Softimage game animation business to Autodesk for $35 million, reports The Boston Globe . Avid... More >
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) cloud computing service is out of beta and generally available, reports InfoWorld . At the same time, it announced beta support for Windows and SQL Ser... More >
Microsoft was thanking corporate customers for 2 percent growth in quarterly profit, but its forecast for the next quarter was softer than Wall Street expected, according to an Associated Press s... More >
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service has ruled to prohibit Google's acquisition of search and contextual video and text advertising business Zao Begun, which is owned by Russian company Rambler M... More >
Andreas von Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, is leaving the hardware company to focus on a four-year-old start-up called Arista Networks. According to Reuters , Arista will chal... More >
The economy is on the minds of many, but green IT vendors aren't that worried. In fact, it could be good for their business, reports TreeHugger . A recent Forrester Research report noted the ... More >
According to Gartner, companies that fail to modernize their data centers run the risk of having their energy costs double between 2005 and 2011 . The analyst firm calls legacy data centers o... More >
VMware topped tepid expectations in its quarterly report, but issued a downbeat forecast and announced a hiring freeze. It reported revenues for the third quarter grew 32 percent , following ... More >
Two Swiss doctoral students have demonstrated how keystrokes can be logged from up to 20 meters away on wired keyboards, reports PCWorld.com . Their equipment detected the slight electromag... More >
Following attacks meant to enforce the Taliban's orders for mobile phone operators to shut off operations at night in Afghanistan, the operators now are being ordered to shut down during the day in... More >
Sun Microsystems said it expects a big loss in its fiscal first quarter and won't meet Wall Street forecasts. Its stock fell as much as 15 percent Tuesday on the news, reports MarketWatch . ... More >
Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain told Bloomberg News that thousands of jobs would be cut in its buyout by Bank of America. Thain said of combining the two companies in the $50 billion deal: Most... More >
Symbian has released a free tool that shows developers how their code performs on the mobile operating system, reports Network World . The Symbian Analysis Workbench, a set of Eclipse-based... More >
It appears global economic conditions have had an effect on the e-commerce market. A report from the Interactive Media in Retail Group and Capgemini reveals that year-on-year growth in online spendin... More >
In a battle of the computer experts, a Princeton University professor called New Jersey's Sequoia Advantage voting machines "too insecure to use," while a Carnegie-Mellon University computer expert d... More >
Toshiba will take a larger share of its joint venture with Toshiba as the two companies reallocate wafer output, equipment ownership and funding of two 300mm Nand Flash memory production operations... More >
Analysts firms Gartner and Forrester can't agree on the IT spending impact of the current financial crisis , but two-thirds of IT executives in a recent survey had a uniform opinion. Law firm... More >
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo will announce moves to cut costs this week. Reportedly, managers have been asked to identify areas where costs can be trimmed. Layoffs are anti... More >
With Gmail down for more than 24 hours for some users this week, some businesses are rethinking whether using the free service for business is such a great idea, according to TMCNet.com editor Micha... More >
The Internal Revenue Service is installing two new computers expected to eventually cost $2 billion though known security and privacy vulnerabilities have not been addressed, reports The Associate... More >
True, the Obama campaign is creative in its use of technology , but not even all supporters are happy about that. An MX Logic executive says it and other anti-spam vendors have started block... More >
The state of Alaska has discovered a cash cow to fill the public coffers: Sarah Palin's e-mails. Seems news organizations have an obsessed interest in them and the state wants those companies to pon... More >
Google beat Wall Street estimates in its third quarter, posting earnings of $4.92 a share, reports MarketWatch . Analysts were expecting its earnings to be $4.74 a share. It said net income ... More >
Could Microsoft be coming back for Yahoo? Steve Ballmer told reporters Thursday at the Gartner conference in Orlando, Fla., that though there are no discussions at this point, a deal might st... More >
A few months ago, Nicholar Carr asked in an article in The Atlantic, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Apparently not, at least in the way Carr meant, according to one small study published in ... More >
A team of German and Russian students have won Cisco's I-Prize developer contest , receiving $250,000 from the networking giant and the possibility of positions within the company. vnunet.com... More >
Schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have signed a contract with California startup NComputing to provide virtualized computer labs at 5,000 secondary schools, reports PCWorld.com . ... More >
Micron Technology has agreed to a $400 million purchase of German memory-chip maker Qimonda AG's 35.6 percent stake in Inotera Memories. The buyout will consolidate capacity amid an oversupply in... More >
Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns a small stake in Yahoo, is urging Microsoft to buy the company for $22 a share , reports Reuters . But, as TechCrunch says , good luck with that. ... More >
Micron Technology and Intel plan to shutter their joint production of NAND flash memory at a Boise, Idaho, plant and Micron plans to lay off about 15 percent of it work force , reports Computerworl... More >
Two former executives of software maker Entellium face charges in what prosecutors call a scheme to misrepresent the company's finances to attract more than $50 million in private investment. ... More >
For part of Wednesday morning, the London Stock Exchange Web site showed erroneous prices for the FTSE 100 Index , reports ZDNet's Michael Krigsman. The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index covers t... More >
Amazon plans to cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer volume discounts, reports vnunet.com . Rather than paying a flat rate, starting Nov. 1, customers will be charged by ... More >
MSNBC's Mike Stuckey writes of the gloom among small-business owners : If pessimism among small-business owners is any indicator, the U.S. economy has not merely derailed. It has hurtled over a cli... More >
Yahoo is making use of last year's Zimbra acquisition to update its calendar application, which was first created a decade ago. eWEEK reports that Yahoo Calendar can now be synchronized wit... More >
The U.S. Air Force's Cyber Command project is back on , reports NextGov.com . Military leaders put the initiative on hold in August to give new leaders time to determine the scope and miss... More >
David Axmark, co-founder and former lead engineer for MySQL, has announced he will be leaving Sun Microsystems , reports InfoWorld . He said he hates all the rules he has to follow in the ne... More >
Oracle announced Wednesday it will buy Primavera Software for an undisclosed price, reports CNET News. Primavera's software is designed to help enterprises manage complex and capital-intensi... More >
Indian outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services will buy Citigroup's back-office operations in India for $505 million in cash, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Boston Globe. &... More >
The mess on Wall Street is making its way into inboxes. The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team is warning that phishers are taking advantage of the banking crisis . According to vnunet.co... More >
This week CNN is connecting "The Forum," a site for discussing politics, to Facebook. It's the latest example of news sites pairing with social-networking sites , reports The New York Times . ... More >
Viewers of the vice-presidential debate between candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin flocked to Google, reports vnunet.com. Curiosity about the meanings of buzzwords and references given by e... More >
Bull will push into high-performance computing with its acquisition of Germany's science + computing , reports Network World . At the same time, the company reported it is selling its Medica... More >
Amid all the tales of job cuts, Motorola is reported to be hiring developers for its Android team. The cell phone maker wants to expand its Android team from 50 to 350 developers to turn around its... More >
SAP announced it experienced a sudden drop in orders during the last two weeks of September, prompting its stock to drop and analysts to lower their estimates, reports Reuters . The financi... More >
Deutsche Telekom has acknowledged that thieves hijacked information on at least 17 million mobile phone customers , reports Reuters . The breach took place two years ago and the German compa... More >
Microsoft has given OEMs another six months to let their customers downgrade from Windows Vista Ultimate and Business editions to Windows XP Professional, according to InfoWorld . Microsoft h... More >
Forrester Research's recent report, " Is Green IT Your Emperor with No Clothes? " says technology itself is not green, but that it can be a useful tool in a company's strategy to become more eco-frie... More >
Motorola has gained U.S. Defense Department certification for its secure e-mail system for Windows Mobile devices, reports BetaNews . The company, which bought out RIM rival Good Technology... More >
Ever-morphing cyber criminals are watching Google Trends to serve up malware, reports ZDNet 's Dancho Danchev. Google Trends lists the hottest search topics -- maybe the Tampa Bay Rays base... More >
Yes, the U.S. Senate took back the bailout bill and rewrote it to make the bitter medicine a little more palatable for the U.S. House, which votes on the bill today. The San Francisco Chronicle rep... More >
Americans are ditching their landlines in favor of wireless service, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Wireless Regional Customer Satisfaction Index Study. InformationWeek repo... More >
As this whole bailout mess sparks incendiary calls to cap executive pay , Micron Technology has decided to let its bosses share the pain , reports CNET News . The company recently reported ... More >
A recently published KRC Research -conducted survey of IT decision makers at 250 small businesses found that 69 percent considered green practices to be an important part of their business. The two ... More >
The Washington Post reports that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had yet another e-mail account that she used to communicate with a small circle of staff members outside the official state e... More >
Microsoft has a new financial incentive-related project to get people to use its search service, reports CNET News . Running through April 15, SearchPerks gives people points for using Liv... More >
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