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The U.S. economy contracted at its sharpest rate in 26 years in the fourth quarter, the government said Friday, reports CNNMoney.com . The gross domestic product fell at an annual rate of 3... More >
Supply chains are getting way more complicated and that could be affecting companies' bottom line, according to a survey by Infosys and Microsoft . In the survey of business decision-makers a... More >
British retailer Marks & Spencer has chosen IBM and SAP to help improve operational efficiency, report CBR . It will use SAP’s Industry Solution for Retail and IBM's change management a... More >
Tech executives have to get better at showing how IT benefits the business. That's the conclusion of this IT Governance Institute survey , in which 87 percent of non-IT executives rated techn... More >
Michael Dell got an unexpectedly vitriolic response from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin when he asked how tech companies could help Russia make the best use of its talent and technology, rep... More >
Big Blue's taking cloud computing to the world. It will team up with three universities in the Middle East to build a cloud platform for the Qatar Cloud Computing Center and will develop app... More >
Intel's chairman, Craig Barrett, who formerly served as the company's fourth CEO, will retire in May, reports The Associated Press in a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. According to ... More >
President Obama learned Thursday that he gets to have a BlackBerry , but lawyers and the Secret Service have decreed a strict set of rules , reports The New York Times . Among them: ... More >
AT&T announced it is selling 235 cell towers in 24 states to Global Tower Partners, a company that outsources wireless services to carriers, reports rcrwireless.com . The purchase price was n... More >
Barack Obama's staff found moving into the White House akin to the technological dark ages , reports The Washington Post . The story quotes Obama spokesman Bill Burton saying, It is kind of ... More >
Microsoft said Thursday it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, reports Joseph Tartakoff at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . It's cutting 1,400 jobs now. The company also anno... More >
Internet traffic guru Andrew Odlyzko's assertion that the Internet can handle whatever we throw at it held up pretty well during the Obama inauguration, though with a few hiccups. Content-de... More >
Though there's still no word about the rumored layoffs at Microsoft, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports the company is cutting back on facilities first . The software maker, which alw... More >
You knew it had to be going on, but peripherals manufacturer Belkin has been caught paying people to write positive reviews of its products on Amazon, according to PCPro . According to the ... More >
The three bidders looking to buy Circuit City apparently took a pass. The company has asked court approval to liquidate its remaining 567 stores , reports The Associated Press in a Los Angeles Ti... More >
In a move to severely undercut the competition, SprintNextel plans to offer a $50 monthly unlimited nationwide calling plan for its youth-oriented Boost Mobile wireless service on Jan. 22. A... More >
Though All Things Digital reported Tuesday that Oracle had "sacked some employees in sales and marketing," that translates to translates to 500 positions in North America, according to CNET Ne... More >
Despite the government's tight censorship of Web content, China is still the largest online population , having expanded to 298 million, according to a study by the government-linked China Internet ... More >
Reuters reports Forrester Research is predicting global IT spending will decline 3 percent this year. But Microsoft has come up with a new ad campaign to try to persuade businesses to keep invest... More >
A bug found in all major browsers could allow scammers to steal online banking credentials without sending the usual bogus e-mail, according to security vendor Trusteer. InfoWorld reports tha... More >
The Perl Foundation is offering grants of $500 to $3000 for Perl development projects, reports web-app.net . In announcing the call for proposals, the foundation said: You don't have to hav... More >
According to new statistics from AdMob , 34 percent of U.S.-based mobile advertising requests came from smartphone operating systems last month, with iPhone users representing nearly half of those r... More >
The state of Wisconsin has hired a man it fired five years ago after an audit questioned his management abilities and found that he failed to get bids for a $1 million contract awarded to an acquai... More >
The Washington Post reports that the National Safety Council is advocating a complete ban on the use of cell phones while driving , including both handheld and hands-free cellphones. The gro... More >
The World Bank has announced that Wipro, Satyam Computer Services and Megasoft Consultants have been barred from contracting with the bank's corporate procurement program, reports Network World . ... More >
Verizon Wireless on Friday completed its acquisition of Alltel , making it the nation's largest wireless carrier with 78 million customers, reports The Associated Press in a story in the Los Ang... More >
A group of universities has banded together as the Open Cloud Consortium to improve performance and develop a framework for cloud computing, reports InfoWorld . Said Robert Grossman, the gr... More >
It got off to a rocky start, but the official English Windows 7 site went live about 11 a.m. ET Friday. But CNET News' Ina Fried reported the download wasn't available as of 12:25 ET. Sh... More >
The Pentagon has pledged to purchase more than 4,200 LR24 recessed LED luminaires from Cree , a market leader in LED lighting. ZDNet reports that the purchase is part of a project in the W... More >
A trio of electronics companies have teamed up to offer electronics recycling of their products across the whole of the U.S. According to BusinessGreen , Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba have for... More >
Users turned to Twitter when Salesforce.com went down for about 40 minutes Tuesday. Its status-update site trustsalesforce.com was down too, reports PCWorld.com . Users' angry response, hi... More >
Sun Microsystems is elevating its presence in the cloud with the acquisition of Belgium's Q-Layer , which automates the deployment and management of cloud systems, reports vnunet.com . Financial te... More >
New York state's computerized unemployment insurance system has been overwhelmed this week and finally crashed Tuesday, reports The New York Times . A toll-free hotline at the New York Depa... More >
McAfee is warning LinkedIn users about a rash of fake profiles that could put them at risk of malware infection, reports vnunet.com . The phony profile pages claim to have nude photos of cel... More >
In spite of a troubled economy, a report from Forrester Research indicates that both large and small enterprises are set to spend more of their IT budgets on security in 2009 . According to ... More >
All those speculating about who will be named tech czar in the Obama administration won't have to wait much longer. According to the BBC , that appointee will be named Wednesday . Lawrence ... More >
In a campaign similar to the one that circulated through Facebook , phishers are targeting Twitter users . According to CNET News , direct messages with text like "hey! check out this funny... More >
Swedish software company UIQ , a joint venture of Sony Ericsson and Motorola, has filed for bankruptcy, reports Reuters . The company began laying off staff six months ago after its owners de... More >
The government of Taiwan announced Monday it will offer 200 billion New Taiwan dollars (US$6.1 billion) in financial aid to large companies that are struggling, reports The Wall Street Journal . &... More >
Storage company EMC has bought SourceLabs , which provides support to open source software, reports TechFlash . The price was not disclosed. CNET's Matt Asay as well as The Register are w... More >
Security researcher Tobias Engel has demonstrated a DoS attack that affects Nokia Series 60 phones , reports ZDNet Australia . Dubbed the "Curse of Silence," the flaw involves a malformed e-... More >
Amazon has dumped the Bill Me Later payment service , reports TechFlash . The e-tailer started using the service last summer after acquiring a stake in it, possibly 10 percent, the story say... More >
The all-volunteer organization CastleCops dedicated to fighting spam and phishing has shuttered its operations , reports Dark Reading . The piece credits the organization with successfully d... More >
Chinese computer maker Lenovo is restructuring its operations to deal with the global economic slump and declining demand, reports Agence France-Presse , citing the China Business News. The... More >
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