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Motorola said Friday it would cut 3,500 jobs worldwide in coming months after turning in a disappointing profit for the fourth quarter, despite a strong surge in sales of its mobile devices Sales for the quarter that ended in December were US$11.8 billion, an increase of 17 percent over the $10 billion posted last year and a record quarter for the ...
Google plans to build a new, US$600 million datacenter in North Carolina designed to help support its online operations, the company announced Friday The site, to be located in the city of Lenoir, is expected to create about 210 jobs over time. North Carolina awarded Google a 12-year job development investment grant with incentives of about $4.8 mi...
IBM posted sharply higher profits for its fourth quarter as software and services paced the technology giant, but some weakness in hardware sales led investors to sell off Big Blue shares IBM said Friday that net income was US$3.54 billion, or $2.31 per share, up 11 percent from the same time frame in 2005. Revenue was up 7.5 percent to $26.3 billi...
"Storm Worm" is the name that seems to have stuck for a massive malware attack that spread Thursday and Friday by teasing e-mail recipients to open infected messages supposedly about European wind storms The attackers use of the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe" was an effective way to lure careless computer users into opening mail in...
In the late 1990s, a new application appeared on the World Wide Web. It allowed people from different places and different time zones the opportunity to simultaneously view a slide show, commonly PowerPoint, and to hear a speaker explain the details behind each slide The viewers also had the opportunity to send an instant message to the presenter w...
The road ahead for wireless networking promises immense progress -- larger, more extensive networks and access to a diverse set of users via technologies such as WiFi, WiMax and wireless mesh networking It also promises, however, a path full of obstacles if enterprises choose to ignore how they will manage their networks....
Traffic to blog pages at the top 10 newspaper sites jumped 210 percent in December compared to the same month in 2005 Moreover, blogs garnered 13 percent of all traffic to the sites during the month, compared to only 4 percent in December 2005, according to findings released Wednesday by Nielsen//NetRatings, a media and market research firm based i...
News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security controls....
TJX, the parent company of national discount chains such as T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, disclosed on Wednesday that identity thieves had breached its security measures and gained access to a computer network on which the company stores its transaction data. The theft could involve consumers from the U.S., Canada and the British Isles According to the ...
Increasing the security of eBay's massive and growing auction and sales platform will be a top priority during 2007, according to company executives The recent announcement of an enhanced password program for PayPal users is just one example of a larger effort to curtail phishing and fraud at the auction site....
Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to make Vista, the newest version of its Windows operating system, available to consumers online when the product is officially rolled out at the end of this month The launch of the consumer version of Vista, which has been postponed several times, is now scheduled for Jan. 30. The operating system will be ava...
In announcing Thursday the release of its new Prada phone, LG Electronics didn't claim it was competing with the heavily-hyped Apple iPhone scheduled to be released in June It didn't have to. The media did it on its own with headlines boldly suggesting the iPhone already had a competitor....
Oracle on Tuesday upgraded its self-service offering with the release of Siebel Communications Billing Manager 5.1.1 and Siebel Communications Billing Analytics 5.1.1 -- applications built on Siebel's acquisition of eDocs in 2005 New changes to the systems will give users increased online access to billing data and improved reporting capabilities, ...
Some Internet security companies are warning about the dangers they say exist from a new level of cyber attacks based on dynamic code obfuscation. However, makers of top-rated antivirus protection software claim such warnings only amount to a new spin on an old hacker tactic Dynamic code obfuscation warnings have raised concern that such attacks co...
In a nutshell, here's a look back at the CRM industry's last few years: ...
It's no secret that Linux at the server level is growing fast in the business world It's stable, it's infinitely customizable, it has the kind of support that an enterprise demands and its return on investment is amazing to people more accustomed to the costs of other approaches. So, you find it everywhere these days....
Monitor size is like real estate. You can never get enough of it. That's what I thought until I got a gander at Gateway's mammoth 24-inch HD LCD flat-panel display. Working with this monitor is like computing on a billboard Once I got my bearings -- I'm used to using a 17-inch LCD, so the transition to this behemoth was like being plopped in the mi...
Oracle on Tuesday released a new Critical Patch Update addressing 51 security flaws across a variety of its products. The release was Oracle's ninth such quarterly update, and was the first to be preannounced. The release was initially announced last Thursday Included among the patches are security fixes for Oracle Database Server, Oracle Applicat...
Electronic Arts (EA), creator of the wildly popular Sims line of video games, announced Tuesday that it will expand the series with a new line of "laptop friendly" games The first installment, "The Sims Life Stories," (TSLS) will offer younger PC gamers the opportunity to enter a Sims world featuring appealing characters and easy-to-play story line...
The good news, according to a new recording industry report, is that record labels around the world registered US$2 billion in digital sales last year -- either through music online or mobile phones -- nearly doubling the market in the previous year The bad news is that these sales have not totally compensated the industry for its lost audio CD rev...
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