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The Thomson Corporation and KnowledgeNet, a privately held company, have signed an agreement under which Thomson will acquire KnowledgeNet and merge it with its enterprise learning business, Thomson NETg "The acquisition underscores our commitment to delivering high-impact integrated learning solutions for the corporate, government, academic and pr...
As part of Software Freedom Day, set for August 28, OpenOffice will be translated into three African languages for the first time. After Saturday, the open-source desktop suite will be available to speakers of the South African languages of Zulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans The new versions have been prepared by Translate.org.za, a South African translati...
Too many companies take a very automated, ATM-like approach to the ROI they get from industry analyst organizations they work with. For all the cash these companies deposit, they expect only a quote from time to time from their industry analysts, hopefully generated with the same efficiency of a 24/7 ATM transaction It would be cheaper for the anal...
When historians look back at the Google IPO, it's likely they will judge it a huge success. That's because the search-engine company stepped out of a process that rewarded financial insiders and moved toward a more free-market approach Perhaps it's no surprise that the company challenging elite Wall Street authority is based in the oft-described "l...
TiVo reported today that it added approximately 288,000 total subscriptions in the second quarter, more than triple the number it added in Q2 of last year. According to TiVo, the company's total installed base has more than doubled to approximately 1.9 million in the past twelve months Service revenues for the quarter increased 77 percent to $24.3 ...
British pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of the antidepressant drug Paxil, says it will pay US$2.5 million as part of a settlement of the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer In addition to the monetary portion of the settlement, GSK has also agreed to publicly disclose all of its clinical drug trials about ...
U.S. officials announced a multistate, peer-to-peer (P2P) network user bust, calling it "the first federal enforcement action taken against criminal copyright piracy on peer-to-peer networks," and announcing the execution of search warrants at five homes and an ISP The effort of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's office -- which this week brough...
On Saturday, August 28, it is possible a new holiday will be born: Software Freedom Day. Organized by grassroots groups, the worldwide event is an effort to promote wider use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) One of the largest regions to see events associated with this day will be Asia, which will have software giveaways in Bangladesh, India...
Linspire today announced the availability of Internet dialer software that provides direct access to the Internet for desktop Linux users via AOL's dial-up ISP service. AOL, a subsidiary of Time Warner, is the world's largest ISP with 29.7 million AOL subscribers in the U.S. and Europe The AOL Dialer beta software lets desktop Linux users configure...
Finnish telecom provider Nokia announced on Thursday that it had, together with the UK telecom operator Vodafone, formed a mobile service architecture initiative The aim of the initiative is to simplify mobile Java standards by defining the next generation, open standards-based mobile Java services architecture specifications, according to Nokia....
Server sales rose again in the second quarter as demand remained strong around the world, according to a report from research firm Gartner that also showed Dell and Sun Microsystems making gains along with the Linux operating system Suggesting that at least some parts of the technology sector remain robust, Gartner said sales rose nearly 8 percent ...
IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Venetica, a privately held company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Financial details were not disclosed Venetica's operations will be integrated into the Information Integration group within IBM's Information Managemen...
European antitrust regulators said they will conduct an in-depth review of the proposed acquisition of digital rights management company Contentguard by Microsoft and Time Warner The European Commission said Wednesday it would proceed to a second-phase investigation of the deal, which was announced in April. Under that agreement, the two companies ...
European antitrust regulators said they will conduct an in-depth review of the proposed acquisition of digital rights management company Contentguard by Microsoft and Time Warner The European Commission said Wednesday it would proceed to a second-phase investigation of the deal, which was announced in April. Under that agreement, the two companies ...
Despite a drop in its overall share of global spam, the United States remains the number one originator of unsolicited e-mail in the world Those are the findings of antivirus, antispam software maker Sophos in its latest "dirty dozen" report, which identifies the 12 top countries where spam originates....
After years of job losses due to the decline in the manufacturing and lumber industries, the Pacific Northwest may be seeing a bright spot for growth as call centers target the region Oregon seems to have more pull when it comes to new centers being put in. Recently, Royal Caribbean chose the state for a new 1,000-job call center that would be the ...
The California Assembly has approved a bill that would require employers to warn their employees if they plan to monitor workplace e-mail and Internet activities SB 1841 -- an act to add Section 436 to the Labor Code, relating to electronic monitoring of employees -- has created a debate that pits the view that the legislation is an attempt to prot...
Everyone knows PCs are faster than Macs, but Macs cost more. Right? There are two issues here: cost and performance. Right now I want to focus on the cost side of the myth, leaving performance for another column, possibly in late September ...
Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo and U.S.-based Motorola are teaming to develop a multimodal handset targeted at Japanese business users who must use the mobile phones in other parts of the world The move highlights the realization by many large mobile carriers and handset makers, including Verizon and Qualcomm, that to compete on the global scale,...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has asked Microsoft to change an ad that claims Linux has been found to be over 10 times more expensive than Windows Server. The group evaluated the truthfulness of the ad after a number of public complaints were filed In the ad, Microsoft cites figures from a META Group study that measured the costs o...
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