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The different takes on the Sprint Nextel CEO's 2008 compensation package are interesting. The Kansas City Star focuses on how Dan Hesse's package of salary, stock and other benefits was worth $15.5 ... More >
Google's in nearly every other business, so why not venture capital, too? Google Ventures, announced Monday, is expected to invest up to $100 million over the next 12 months in tech startups, repor... More >
Adobe and Facebook are teaming up to help developers use Flash technology in games and other social apps by releasing an Actionscript 3 client library , reports Venture Beat . In the past, d... More >
It's hard to compete with free, a lesson newspapers are learning painfully. And so Microsoft is ditching its encyclopedia Encarta . It will stop selling discs in June, then discontinue its We... More >
The Iowa governor on Monday is calling on Microsoft in an effort to get its plans for a data center in his home state back on the agenda, reports The Associated Press in a story on seattlepi.co... More >
EMC is cutting the pay of its top five executives by 10 percent, reports The Boston Globe . That means CEO Joe Tucci will get $900,000 rather than the $1 million he made last year and his b... More >
A prematurely published note indicates Microsoft intends to issue the release candidate for Windows 7 in May and the final version could be out as early as September, reports InformationWeek . &nb... More >
NEC has announced plans to pull out of global PC sales and focus solely on the Japanese market, reports The Register . It announced last month plans to withdraw from markets in Europe, the Middle ... More >
Fujitsu has reaffirmed its commitment to its high-end "SPARC" server line even though its partner in the venture, Sun Microsystems, could be bought out by IBM, reports Reuters . The story q... More >
While IBM was listed as one of the eight firms on a shortlist for purchase of Satyam Computer Services as late as yesterday, Forbes.com is reporting that it is not interested in the available ... More >
Nortel has updated its unified communications platform , the Communication Server 1000 to make it simpler, more secure, resilient and open, reports Channel Web . The Linux-based Release 6.0 ... More >
Lenovo is reorganizing the company into two units : one focused on mature markets and the other on emerging markets, which will be its main focus, reports Bloomberg . It previously had units assign... More >
Google is joining a $5.75 million round of investment in Pixazza , a site that can turn an Web photo into a shopping experience , as The San Jose Mercury News explains. The story doesn't make cl... More >
Facebook is responding to its users' complaints and is tweaking its site accordingly. It's not a rollback to its previous design, however, reports Venture Beat . PCWorld.com uses the phras... More >
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is investing $3.2 million in Xobni , which makes a search tool for Outlook, reports BusinessWeek . Cisco also has invested about $7 million. The product, ... More >
Nokia has bought a minority stake in Obopay , which the U.S.-based mobile payments service said it will use to “aggressively extend its product suite and enhance its global presence,” reports mocoN... More >
Microsoft again has pushed back release of the upgrade to its Identity Lifecycle Manager 2.0 software , angering some customers, reports Network World . It's now expected to ship in the firs... More >
Michael Dell said in Tokyo on Tuesday that all the talk about an IBM buyout of Sun Microsystems creates a great business opportunity for Dell. Reuters quotes him saying: Just the rumor of I... More >
Alcatel-Lucent will provide 3G networks in 14 Chinese provinces under a contract with China Unicom, reports BusinessWeek . Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The company said... More >
Novell on Tuesday released SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 with features that reflect its closer ties to Microsoft , reports Network World . It features Moonlight, a Firefox browser extension for... More >
Apple's long been considered rude in not even being concerned about the enterprise. And just last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fired off another salvo , saying Macs are just too expensive in th... More >
A carpet-bombing vulnerability was found in Google's Web browser Chrome within hours of its release, reports ZDNet 's Ryan Naraine. Through a combination of a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit... More >
IBM's proposed buyout of Sun Microsystems could run into antitrust issues , especially in the market for large UNIX servers and high-end tape drive storage systems, reports the San Francisco Chroni... More >
Sony Ericsson's head of operations in North America is leaving at the end of March to "pursue other career opportunities," reports bizjournals.com . Najmi Jarwala, who has a Ph.D. in electr... More >
BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., is on a roll with technology contracts for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , or DARPA, reports masshightech.com . Most recently, it l... More >
In light of IBM's potential buyout of Sun Microsystems, The San Jose Mercury News looks at three other struggling tech companies: Palm, AMD and Quantum. Experts say don't write the obit for any of ... More >
Oracle plans to acquire Relsys , which developes drug safety and risk management software, reports CNET News . Financial terms were not disclosed. Relsys' software is designed to help drug, ... More >
In April, VMware will offer a technology preview of a new remote management feature for vCenter Mobile AccessVMware users from mobile phones , reports Network World . It explains in a video ... More >
E-mail and phone marketing company SmartReply has gobbled up SMS ad network mSnap , reports TechCrunch . Complete details of the transaction were not disclosed. Partech International and Fir... More >
The Sony Ericsson handset joint venture is reported to be on the rocks , with Ericsson wanting out and Sony wanting to buy its 50 percent stake but hampered by the current economy, reports Telecoma... More >
Palm still plans to release its Pre smartphone by June, if it can just get there. In its third quarter, smartphone sales were down 42 percent and revenue fell 72 percent , reports PCWorld.com . &nb... More >
Two companies that offer remote management of Microsoft Exchange, Azaleos and M3Technology , have merged, reports Infoworld . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new company will be ca... More >
Google is offering Gmail users the ability to recall sent e-mails , as long as the remorse hits quickly enough, reports vnunet.com . Said Michael Leggett, Gmail user experience designer, in ... More >
Business intelligence vendor SAS is building a $70 million cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it prepares to make a big push in on-demand BI, reports Larry Dignan at ZDNet . ... More >
Oracle's third-quarter earnings beat expectations, a feat in this economy, and the company for the first time will pay a dividend, reports CNET News . Third-quarter revenues were up 2 perce... More >
Trying to remove one of the biggest fears about cloud computing, 3Tera is offering a 99.999 availability service-level agreement for its AppLogic Virtual Private Datacenter service, reports ZDNet ... More >
Cisco plans to buy Pure Digital Technologies , maker of the Flip Video camcorder, for about $590 million in stock as it pushes further into consumer electronics, reports Reuters . Pure Digit... More >
Microsoft will make the Internet Explorer 8 available for download Thursday at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET) , reports eWEEK . There are more than 500 add-ons to the new browser, including security ... More >
Cray has launched a line of midrange supercomputers aimed at government, academic and industrial users, reports The Puget Sound Business Journal . They start at around $500,000. Except for ... More >
SAP has updated its Global Trade Services application to improve compliance and reduce risk in the supply chain, reports vnunet.com . The new version is designed to be used together with ... More >
Hot on the heels of news that IBM is putting electronic health records on an avatar comes word of its online "radiology theatre." According to ReadWriteWeb , the prototype allows medical te... More >
IBM is in talks to buy out Sun Microsystems , reports vnunet.com , citing a story in The Wall Street Journal that requires a subscription. That story says IBM could offer around $6.5 billion, rough... More >
February was a lousy month for Mac sales, which dropped nearly 17 percent , reports Computerworld . Meanwhile, PC sales rose an astonishing 22 percent when compared with the same month a yea... More >
Intel says AMD's Globalfoundries joint venture breaches a 2001 patent agreement between the two companies, reports Reuters . According to Intel: "Global Foundries is not a subsidiary under ... More >
IBM has landed a seven-year, $500 million contract with the Kaiser Permanente health care program to manage its data centers , reports The Associated Press in a story in the San Francisco Chronicl... More >
Local planners in Redmond, Wash., are allocating $11 million of the $214 million in transportation money awarded to the region from the federal stimulus package for an overpass connecting one part of... More >
Chip maker Nvidia spent $43.6 million in 2008 to cover warranty and product replacement claims for faulty graphics chips , reports PCWorld.com . The company took a one-time charge of $196 mi... More >
German chip maker Qimonda will put production in standby mode at the end of the month, but continue talking to potential investors beyond then, reports Reuters . The company sought bankrup... More >
On its HP Labs site , Hewlett-Packard reports on the changes in the year since it restructured its labs . Instead of having hundreds of projects, it now has 23 major projects and 40 smaller ... More >
PC Magazine takes a look at a second group of changes Microsoft plans to make to the release candidate of Windows 7. Most of the 28 changes, based on user feedback, deal with Windows Explorer and th... More >
It's lights-out at the end of the year for Microsoft's adCenter Analytics program , which let online publishers track visitors and other data, according to TechFlash . The service had been e... More >
Nortel is looking to sell off its carrier networks and enterprise solutions, its two main business units , reports The Globe and Mail .The company has put a possible sale price of about US$1.3 bill... More >
Chip sales fell 5.2 percent last year, and 13 of the industry's 25 biggest companies reported declines worse than that, reports Dow Jones in a story on CNNMoney.com . Ten of the biggest sellers re... More >
IBM software will allow customers to manage security products from multiple vendors from a single console, reports InfoWorld . The product, Proventia Endpoint Secure Control , will deal w... More >
Google is relaunching the GrandCentral service, which lets allows users to choose a number where up to six phones will ring simultaneously. In addition, it's adding a voice-to-text feature so your ... More >
Some folks have been asking why AOL CEO Randy Falco still has a job, and now he doesn't in a swift swing of the ax from Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, reports Kara Swisher at All Things Digital . Pr... More >
Gartner's latest prediction for the semiconductor market is a gloomy one. According to Gartner's "Forecast: Semiconductor Capital Equipment Recovery Possible in 2010" report, capital equipment spendi... More >
Apple keeps making its iPods smaller. The latest Shuffle is smaller than a AA battery , reports The Wall Street Journal . With a 4 gigabyte memory, it will hold about 1,000 songs and costs $79. &nb... More >
Hitachi, along with LG, Chunghwa and Sharp, has pleaded guilty to price fixing in the LCD market . Computerworld reports that Hitach has agreed to pay $31 million in fines for price fixing L... More >
Google is diving into targeted advertising, but to stave of consumer revolt, it will allow users to see and edit the information collected about their Internet surfing habits, reports The New York... More >
IBM and Danish hospital Thy-Mors have developed patient software that uses an avatar to give doctors a visual rendition of a patient's health records, reports Reuters . According to this Y... More >
IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Palmisano got a raise in 2008 , but not a big one, according to an Associated Press story in the San Francisco Chronicle. Of course, it depends on how you defi... More >
Gartner has been critical of Microsoft's Software Assurance program after it announced Office 14 would not come out this year. Now Redmond is trying to keep enterprise customers on a mainte... More >
Trying to shore up the company until its Pre smartphone is ready, Palm announced Monday it wants to resell 18.5 million shares held by Elevation Partners, reports thestreet.com . The plan c... More >
If you still get paper bills, Verizon Wiress has included a "legalistic pamphlet" that allows users 45 days to "opt out" or the company will figure you agree that it can share your personal informat... More >
In IBM's annual report sent to shareholders Monday, CEO Samuel J. Palmisano exudes an air of bravado that might not play so well in these generally troubled times. As IT Business Edge's Ann A... More >
Aleri and rival Coral8, two small vendors in complex-event processing, have merged, reports InformationWeek . Details of the deal were not disclosed. Complex-event processing software sifts... More >
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba, is looking for a partner for a U.S. version of its eBay-like site Taobao.com, reports The San Jose Mercury News . To that end, he's meet... More >
TechFlash's John Cook writes that President Obama' s choice of Vivek Kundra as the nation's chief information officer doesn't bode well for Microsoft. In his post as CIO of the District of ... More >
Taiwan plans to merge its DRAM memory makers into a single company called Taiwan Memory Co. (TMC) under the direction of John Hsuan, former CEO of chip maker United Microelectronics, reports Compu... More >
SAP is incorporated preconfigured business intelligence software from its acquisition last year of Business Objects into its All-in-One ERP product for the midmarket, reports InfoWorld . It... More >
Three top MySpace executives are leaving to start their own business, though they haven't said what it will be, reports CNET News . They are Chief Operating Officer Amit Kapur; Jim Benedett... More >
Google has launched a new site, Google Code Labs , with links to all the major code projects it's working on, reports ReadWriteWeb . Developers can use it to know which projects the company ... More >
Cisco is lending its expertise in networking to help NASA monitor climate change in a new project called "Planetary Skin," reports GreenBiz.com . First up: ""Rainforest Skin," a project to ... More >
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a deeper push into business intelligence services , reports Network World . Forrester Research expects the BI market to grow from $8.5 billion in 200... More >
AMD has named its new chip-making unit Globalfoundries , to be run by CEO Doug Grose, the former senior vice president of manufacturing operations at AMD, and Chairman of the Board Hector Ruiz, form... More >
AMD has spun off its chip-making alter ego and named Former 3Com Corp. Chief Executive Bruce Claflin as its new head , reports bizjournals.com . Claflin replaces Hector Ruiz, who was named c... More >
Intel is collaborating with semiconductor manufacturer TSMC to put its low-cost Atom processor in more gadgets ranging from smartphones to mini-laptops. There had been a lot of buzz that this ... More >
Spansion, which makes Flash memory chips for mobile phones, has filed for backruptcy protection after failing to make an interest payment on $266 million of bonds, reports Bloomberg . In it... More >
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