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EMC, an information-management vendor, appointed Jeffrey M. Nick to the position of senior vice president and CTO. Nick will assume a role in the direction of EMC's technology strategy and in the evolution and advancement of EMC's information-management capabilities, related platforms, software and services Nick spent 24 years at IBM, departing in ...
As the largest maker of computer chips, Intel has become the thermometer for monitoring the health of the technology sector. And according to the most recent temperature reading, the sector is feeling a bit down Intel lowered its revenue guidance substantially on Thursday, even more than analysts had predicted, and also said its profit margins were...
You may not have heard of the phrase "pump and dump." I would be surprised, however, if you haven't been personally solicited by a so-called investment advisory firm that was trying to sell you a penny stock What's the connection? Pump and dump schemes, which are illegal, usually involve the heavy promotion of a penny stock by supposed investment a...
Many people consider order management the heart of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. It's heresy in many manufacturing companies even to talk of changing from a home-grown order-management system to an outside ERP system One world-class distributor is an example of one reason why. It has an ERP system finely tuned to its distribution c...
In a bid to boost the credibility of the blade-server paradigm, which provide storage, networking and other functions in a small form factor, IBM and Intel jointly announced that the design specifications for the eServer BladeCenter platform would be made widely available to other vendors to encourage hardware support IBM and Intel have already cod...
Siemens Business Services, SAP and Intel have announced a new radio frequency identification (RFID) product. Privacy experts, however, continue to express concern about the technology The new product allows suppliers to comply with demands from Wal-Mart, Target and German retailer Metro that they attach RFID tags to pallets and, in some cases, indi...
BlueLinx Holdings has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form S-1 for an IPO. BlueLinx intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BXC The IPO is expected to take place later this year....
Red Hat today announced the appointment of Charles E. Peters, Jr. as executive vice president and chief financial officer Most recently, Peters held the position of CFO with Burlington Industries. Peters' responsibilities as CFO at Red Hat will include accounting, finance, treasury, tax, credit and investor relations....
After months of speculation and anticipation, Microsoft launched a test version Thursday of the music download site it hopes will unseat rival Apple's iTunes Music Store as the dominant provider of digital songs The beta site of MSN Music features around a half-million songs and offers individual downloads for 99 cents a piece, the same price that ...
IBM, in collaboration with Intel, has made available the design specifications for the IBM eServer BladeCenter platform. The specifications should allow hardware vendors to create BladeCenter-compatible products and participate in the blade server market According to IBM, the design specifications are intended to help hardware vendors develop and b...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided the keynote speech for the Massachusetts Software Council's (MSC) annual fall membership meeting Wednesday, and used the forum to discuss how the company views Linux, as well as to address Longhorn delays and security concerns In the speech, given in front of an audience of more than 700 of the state's technolog...
Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That's the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May and August by more than 1,000 CipherTrust customers...
Is there copyright protection in compiled data published online? As with most things of a legal nature related to the Internet, it all depends on the factual context A number of recent U.S. court decisions have shed some light on this issue. In Assessment Technologies of WI LLC v. WIREdata Inc., Judge Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sev...
Not satisfied to be slowpokes in sales and customer service, the life insurance industry has continued to invest in customer relationship management (CRM) technology even as others have shied away from making capital expenditures in the current economy No matter the market's misery, these insurance underwriters have set their focus on spending to s...
The use of electronic voting in this year's U.S. elections has the makings of the greatest IT-related disaster yet. Barring a miracle, this is a done deal, a disaster unfolding as we watch The problem, unfortunately, is that it's too late for alternative technologies to come in while a number of judicial decisions holding that the older methods ten...
The words "copy protection" make Adam Gervin wince. Gervin is senior marketing director for the entertainment technologies group at Macrovision, in Santa Clara, California. Macrovision is a company best known for cooking up ways to thwart the copying of movies and music from tapes and discs He's also point man in Macrovision's quest -- through a ne...
A new study by Canadian researchers indicates a woman's chance of breast cancer returning after surgery is significantly reduced by following up with radiation therapy and tamoxifen The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was attempting to determine if women with low-risk breast cancer could avoid radiation therapy after surger...
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, a veteran planet-hunter and a codiscoverer of this pair...
A new report from Canadian researcher AssetMetrix indicates that one in 10 corporate PCs will have applications adversely impacted by the new Windows XP Service Pack 2 update. However, the report also indicates that few corporate computer users might be feeling the effects because relatively few appear to be updating right away AssetMetrix said it ...
As investors awaited a ruling in the antitrust suit of PeopleSoft against hostile takeover bidder Oracle, rumors circulated that a white knight bidder may emerge, kicking Oracle and its persistent pursuit of PeopleSoft to the curb Among the rumored third bidders are IBM, Microsoft, and the German firm SAP....
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