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Taking aim at a greater slice of the corporate computing pie, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft said Wednesday they would join forces on a three-year, US$300 million effort to sell more software and service solutions to large enterprises where common rival IBM is a strong player The two companies said the new effort would build on their past cooperatio...
The Congressional panel probing Hewlett-Packard's use of pretexting and other tactics during its investigation of boardroom press leaks is now focusing on a stock sale by HP CEO Mark Hurd Lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee are interested in Hurd's reasons for cashing out some US$1.37 million worth of HP stock on the same day he ...
IT guru Robin Bloor has thrown down the gauntlet to the antivirus software industry, but the only response he's received has been the equivalent of one hand clapping For months now, Bloor, a partner with Hurwitz & Associates, a consulting and research firm in Waltham, Mass., has been preaching about the demise of antivirus software. He's even cooke...
During 2006, Enron executives were sent to jail for their role in the corporate scandal that rocked the U.S. and brought about sweeping regulatory reforms meant to protect investors and raise the bar among corporations In passing Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress hoped to avoid such high-level corporate scandals in the future, and return investor confidence...
Web services are improving supply chain and business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) network management. As companies such as IBM and Ariba develop better service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services at the partner and customer end, providers such asArch Rock are pushing wireless Web services-enabled networking onto the shop floor and to previously inaccessible production locations, as noted inPart 1 of this two-part series...
Microsoft andNovell this week touted results of a recent survey -- sponsored by both companies -- indicating that nearly all IT customers at large organizations overwhelmingly approved of their Windows-Linux interoperability and patent protection deal ...
More than 1,200 people were arrested for alleged immigration violations earlier this week when federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Swift meatpacking plants. The workers were accused of using stolen Social Security numbers in order to get jobs Dubbed "Operation Wagon Train," the raid was the largest such crackdown on illeg...
CosmoCom has upgraded its IP-based contact center software platform to version 5 Called CosmoCall Universe (CCU), the system has been enhanced to address multiple contact center channels in a unified fashion, Steve Kowarsky, executive vice president of CosmoCom, told CRM Buyer. It also improved functionality in several categories ranging from e-mai...
Hoping to attract and retain top talent as it continues to grow at breakneck pace, Google said Tuesday it would institute a unique program to enable employees to directly sell their vested stock options Google plans to work with Wall Street banking house Morgan Stanley to establish an online auction system through which certain employees can sell v...
Some 800,000 people associated with UCLA have been notified that their names and certain personal information were in a database that was compromised by a hacker. The database contained personal information about current and former students, faculty and staff, and some applicants There are signs that at least some personal information has been obta...
Microsoft has released seven patches for several of its applications, including Outlook Express and Visual Studio 2005. Two of the patches are rated "critical": a vulnerability in script error handling and a vulnerability in Windows Media Player The first patch addresses a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. "It is significant because w...
IBM and Yahoo on Wednesday introduced new, free enterprise search software with Web search services powered by Yahoo. The idea is to make it easier for corporate searchers to find and act on information stored on networks and across the Web Dubbed "IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition," the software is an entry-level search product that Big Blue is using to ...
With the holiday shopping season in full swing, many shoppers are turning to their computers to shop online, rather than facing the thousands of shoppers at the malls In fact, according to a recent study by Forrester Research, U.S. online retail sales this holiday season will reach US$27 billion, a 23 percent increase over last year....
Salesforce.com is having a good year this quarter. That's not a typo -- the company seems to be announcing a year's worth of new products in a very short time, though delivery for some of the announcements might stretch out to this time next year This week, Salesforce announced what I think of as the other shoe, or the business side of the AppExch...
Linux is fast becoming my operating system of choice because it lacks the software bloat and high overhead plaguing both Microsoft andApple computing. Those words do not come easily to me. I have been a devout Windows user from the early days I began experimenting with Linux distributions several weeks ago, trying a variety of Live CD sessions. Liv...
What do you think causes almost two-thirds of all problems encountered by Windows-based PCs? Hardware difficulties?...
Web site operators and bloggers will get free Web hosting, including all advertising revenue from their sites, with a new service called "OpenServing" from the for-profit Wikipedia companyWikia The company said OpenServing will "extend the essence of theopen source model," delivering not only free software and content to users but also free bandwid...
Research In Motion is suing hand-held device maker Samsung, claiming the company is causing confusion and diminishing the brand power of RIM's BlackBerry by selling a smartphone known as the BlackJack In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Waterlook, Ontario-based RIM asked a judge to issue an injunction orde...
Microsoft on Tuesday opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server to 2,500 IT professionals Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology into existing telephony infrastructure. The software giant hopes to gain traction in this market with a busine...
Another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been identified, MessageLabs reported on Tuesday The new, unannounced vulnerability was exploited in an e-mail attack aimed at a few large corporations, Alex Shipp, an engineer withMessageLabs, told TechNewsWorld....
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