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  • News

    IDC: So Much Data, So Little Space

    A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff. 03/05/2007

  • News

    The End of Online Storage: Coming Soon

    New study says that we're running out of storage for all that online information. 03/05/2007

  • News

    Semiconductor Sales Up in January

    Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday. 03/05/2007

  • News

    Wal-Mart Fires IT Worker for Eavesdropping, Disciplines Managers

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization. 03/05/2007

  • News

    Diebold May Sell Off E-Voting Arm To Stave Off Bad Publicity

    Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation. 03/05/2007

  • News

    Wal-Mart Fires Worker Over Eavesdropping

    Wal-Mart fires systems technician for recording of phone conversations and for intercepting text messages without authorization. 03/05/2007

  • News

    AMD Warns It Won't Meet 1Q Outlook

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker. 03/05/2007

  • Exchange Patch Blows Hole in BlackBerrys!

    A cautionary tale. 03/05/2007

  • Obese, Online-Obsessed and Dead

    You know you're addicted to Internet games if... 03/05/2007

  • Service Account Manager Boosted by Lieberman

    Here comes the newest version. 03/05/2007

  • News

    IBM, American Air Parent in $217M Deal

    AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, is hiring International Business Machines Corp. to perform some of its personnel chores in a $217 million deal that will run for 7 1/2 years, the companies said Friday. 03/02/2007

  • News

    Dell 4Q Earnings, Revenues Drop

    Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals. 03/02/2007

  • News

    Sanyo Defends Batteries in Lenovo Recall

    Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries "themselves." 03/02/2007

  • News

    Vanguard Web System Down in Busy Week

    A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon. 03/02/2007

  • News

    Oracle To Buy Hyperion for $3.3 Billion

    Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG. 03/01/2007

  • Foley on Microsoft

    Resisting the Siren Call of Software as a Service

    Sometimes, the unfashionable choice is smart the smart one. 03/01/2007

  • News

    ScriptLogic Expands Channel Program

    Company known for IT automation suite reaches out. 03/01/2007

  • News

    MS Project Add-ins Bow

    Steelray Software announced it is shipping two add-ins -- one updated and one new -- for Microsoft Project. 03/01/2007

  • In-Depth

    Is Microsoft Finally Ready To Play Nice?

    The company appears as if it wants to work cooperatively with competitors. 03/01/2007

  • Security Advisor

    DNS Security Basics

    Your DNS is a sweet spot for hackers who want to compromise your network; learn to protect it. 03/01/2007

  • News

    A Guide to Daylight Saving Time Updates

    For the first time in 22 years, daylight saving time starts three weeks sooner and ends one week later than normal. Although the consequences from an earlier "spring forward" and later "fall back" doesn’t represent the level of threat imagined with Y2K, there are enough little snafus and "gotchas" to keep any IT manager busy for the next couple of weeks. 03/01/2007

  • Take Control

    Desktop Authority exerts the maximum level of control with a minimal amount of effort. 03/01/2007

  • In-Depth

    Top 5 Cool Vista Tricks

    Even if you never have to use these, it's good just to know they're there. 03/01/2007

  • In-Depth

    Changes for Better or Worse

    The updated interface and raft of new features in Office 2007 will eventually make users more productive, but getting to that point is a struggle. 03/01/2007

  • News

    SED Sees Gold in OEM Distributor Status

    Associate OEM distributor graduates to Authorized status. 03/01/2007

  • News

    IBM's India Hiring Binge Continues

    The work force at International Business Machines Corp. grew 8 percent in 2006, with most of the rise coming in India, where the technology company has been on a hiring binge in recent years. 03/01/2007

  • The Expanding Redmond Universe

    The more, the merrier. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Europe Threatens New Microsoft Fines

    The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. on Thursday with fines as high as $4 million a day, claiming the software company was still not offering a fair deal to rivals seeking to make their products more compatible with Windows. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Fixing Nagging Problems with RMtP

    A Microsoft program gives partners a way to help customers with pre-existing conditions and other issues. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Microsoft VP to Keynote TechPartner Conference

    TechPartner will be held March 28-29, Orlando, Fla. 03/01/2007

  • Windows Insider

    The ImageX X-Files

    There's nothing otherworldly about Vista's OS imaging tool -- just some command-line craziness. 03/01/2007

  • News

    EU Threatens New Fines Against Microsoft

    Microsoft is asking rivals to pay too much for information that can help software interoperate, claims European Union commissioner. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Microsoft Partners Aren't Sleeping on NAP

    Microsoft drives up support for Network Access Protection technology. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Mass. Man Arrested in Cisco Resale Fraud Plot

    A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware. 03/01/2007

  • To Serve and To Report

    EventReporter can help make event log management...manageable. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Google Search Growth Outstrips Yahoo, MS

    Google's cash cow search engine -- Google Search -- continued to pull ahead of all competitors in usage growth in the U.S. during January, and managed a whopping 40.6 percent year over year growth rate, according to two recent surveys. 03/01/2007

  • In-Depth

    Cracking Open the Door to Open Source

    Microsoft veers toward the light in its new approach to open source. 03/01/2007

  • In-Depth

    Hitting One Out of the IT Park

    How IT can look to baseball for better management strategies. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Vanguard Opposes HP Director Proposal

    Hewlett-Packard Co.'s sixth-largest shareholder said Wednesday it opposes a proposal floated in the wake of the company's boardroom spying scandal that would allow shareholders to nominate candidates for the company's board of directors. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Lenovo Recalls 100,000 More Laptop Batteries

    Computer maker Lenovo Inc. on Thursday recalled about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries used in ThinkPad laptops after receiving four reports of the Sanyo-built batteries overheating. 03/01/2007

  • News

    Vista for Consumers Sets Sail

    Analysts wonder how choppy the waters will be. 03/01/2007

  • Dell Flirts with Linux

    Hey, OS, how you doin'? 03/01/2007

  • FoxPro Lives!

    You can't keep a good database down. 03/01/2007

  • Exchange Not Standing Still

    Baby grows up, gets its first service pack. 03/01/2007

  • Google: Ozzie Impressed, But Won't Imitate

    Will "software plus service" instead be good enough? 03/01/2007

  • The Scary Side of RFID

    Is a not-so-big brother watching? 03/01/2007

  • News

    Microsoft: Google Was 'Wake-Up Call'

    Ray Ozzie says Microsoft will answer with plans that more than mimic its rivals successes. 02/28/2007

  • News

    Men Arrested in Stop & Shop Data Thefts

    Four California men were arrested in what police said was a scheme to switch checkout-lane credit card readers at Stop & Shop supermarkets as a way to steal customers' numbers and passwords. 02/28/2007

  • News

    Microsoft's Ozzie: Google Was 'Wake-Up Call'

    Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model. 02/28/2007

  • News

    Network Gear Reseller Arrested in Cisco Fraud Plot

    Massachusetts man is alleged to have defrauded Cisco of millions through a scheme involving orders of 'defective' hardware. 02/28/2007

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