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Lenovo Offers AT&T Tech Support With PCs

Antone Gonsalves — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:55:00 EST

The companies are courting SMBs with the PC and IT support bundle.

Motorola Invests In Multitouch Company

Marin Perez — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:35:00 EST

The investment in Sensitive Object could eventually lead to Motorola handsets with stronger touch interfaces.

Ciena Beats Nokia To Acquire Nortel Unit

W. David Gardner — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:12:00 EST

Nortel Siemens Networks made an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to wrest Metro Ethernet Networks from Ciena with a higher bid.

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Global CIO: Outsourcer HCL To Cut Insurer's Costs By $150 Million

Bob Evans — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about HCL winning a huge deal with Equitable Life to provide end-to-end processes including not only IT infrastructure and services but also business services.

Psystar Halts Mac Clone Sales

Paul McDougall — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:05:00 EST

Knock off manufacturer claims it's reached a partial settlement with Apple.

Global CIO: Will SAP Move To Tiered Maintenance Fees?

Bob Evans — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about how SAP's recent vague changes to its pricing and licensing models and its decision to postpone maintenance-fee increases until 2010 might mean it's going to overhaul how it charges for support.

SAP Delays Support Price Increase

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:58:00 EST

The company is waiting until early 2010 to incorporate customers' feedback as it looks to raise its annual maintenance fees.

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Cisco Again Extends Tandberg Acquisition Deadline

W. David Gardner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:38:00 EST

The company is giving Tandberg shareholders until Thursday to approve its $3.4 billion offer to acquire the Norwegian videoconferencing company.

IT Hiring To Increase Next Quarter

W. David Gardner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:03:00 EST

A 3% increase in IT staffing is forecast for early 2010, with traditional jobs in networking, security, and application development most in demand.

Broadcom To Acquire Dune For $178 Million

W. David Gardner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:32:00 EST

The deal will boost Broadcom's data center and cloud computing portfolio.

Nokia Sues LCD Makers

Paul McDougall — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:45:00 EST

Phone giant accuses screen suppliers of colluding to artificially inflate prices.

Gartner Sees Stabilization In Server Market

Antone Gonsalves — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST

Server shipments and revenue increased significantly in the third quarter from the previous quarter.

Ericsson To Buy Nortel GSM Unit For $70 Million

W. David Gardner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:39:00 EST

Nortel's European and Taiwanese GSM and GSM-R operations will go to Kapsch CarrierCom.

Joost Assets Acquired By Adconion

W. David Gardner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

It announced that "certain assets" of Joost will be acquired, but Adconion did not disclose terms of the deal.

Global CIO: Oracle, Larry Ellison, The EU, And MySQL

Bob Evans — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:10:00 EST

Column about how politics and declining European involvement in the IT business are behind the EU's badgering of Oracle over the MySQL database.

CIO Profiles: John P. Burke, CIO Of Ambit Energy

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

One hard-earned lesson he's learned: You can't earn trust as a leader in a part-time role.

Down To Business: How Indian CIOs Stack Up

Rob Preston — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

IBM thinks they're more progressive than CIOs elsewhere in the world, given their emphasis on innovation, customers, and other strategic matters.

Global CIO: The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405

Bob Evans — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about angel-inspired events on last night's USAirways flight #3405.

Senators Urge EU To Finish Oracle Sun Probe

W. David Gardner — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:41:00 EST

With Sun jobs at stake, U.S. lawmakers want the European Commission to speed up its antitrust investigation.

Chip Market Decline Less Than Expected

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:50:00 EST

Semiconductor revenue plunged more than $32 billion this year, but iSuppli said it could have been much worse.

HP Earnings Up 14% In 4Q

W. David Gardner — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:09:00 EST

CEO Mark Hurd says the hardware and services company detects an uptick in the economy, even as sales have declined.

AOL Previews Brand, Trims Workforce

W. David Gardner — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:09:00 EST

The company is offering buyouts to 2,500 members of its workforce as it seeks to trim its employee headcount by nearly a third.

Obama Calls For Math, Science Push

J. Nicholas Hoover — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:58:00 EST

The president kicked off a public-private initiative Monday to promote education in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers

Alexander Wolfe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:00 EST

Justin Rattner talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking

CIO Profiles: Mark Dajani, Senior VP And CIO Of Kraft Foods

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

For everything Kraft's IS department does, there's a value measurement.

Lessons Learned From PCI Compliance

Andrew Conry-Murray — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Assessors reveal mistakes companies make with data security standard.

Interop: CIOs Eye Cloud With Optimistic Caution

Paul McDougall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:39:00 EST

Tech chiefs see potential for savings and IT flexibility, but remain wary of legal and technical challenges.

eBay Founder Starting Online News Site

W. David Gardner — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:00 EST

As print journalism suffers from the move of ad dollars to the Web, Pierre Omidyar hopes his service will fill gaps in local Hawaiian news reporting.

Salesforce Adds Enterprise Social Networking

Mary Hayes Weier — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:42:00 EST

Chatter brings Facebook- and Twitter-type capabilities to applications running on the Force.com cloud computing platform.

Sprint iPCS Acquisition Opposed

Marin Perez — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:49:00 EST

A key iPCS investor said the acquisition price is far too low considering Sprint Nextel paid more for similar-sized affiliate networks.

Interop: IT Forecast Says Clouds

Paul McDougall — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

Techfest keynoters predict SaaS will dominate business technology due to simplicity, flexibility, and reliability.

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Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers

Bob Evans — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about the possibility that Oracle might suspend its operations in Europe to bypass the EC's absurd and unreasonable conditions on approving the Oracle-Sun acquisition.

Web 2.0 Expo: O'Reilly Warns Of Web War

Paul McDougall — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:28:00 EST

Internet visionary fears an end to openness as Internet rivals consolidate power.

Verizon Calls AT&T's Lawsuit Meritless

Marin Perez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:28:00 EST

In a plainspoken response to AT&T's suit, Verizon said its 3G map ads are accurate and "the truth hurts."

Healthcare IT Job Outlook Perks Up

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:20:00 EST

Business analysts and technology architects face rosy IT job prospects in the healthcare and green energy sectors.

Psystar Guilty Of Violating Mac Copyright

Paul McDougall — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:49:00 EST

Court grants summary judgment in favor of Apple's lawsuit against cloner.

Global CIO: IT-Led Opportunities Abound, So Stop Sniveling

Bob Evans — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST

Lose the Depends and ask yourself why you find it so hard to believe when so many before us have given us so very much to work with.

Ericsson Completes Nortel Acquisition

W. David Gardner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:35:00 EST

The $1.3 billion purchase of Nortel's CDMA/LTE unit makes North America the largest region in Ericsson's global reach.

Programmers Charged In Madoff Scheme

Antone Gonsalves — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:38:00 EST

Two men were arrested for developing and maintaining computer programs that helped convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff cover up his operation.

Military Readies IT Acquisition Reforms

J. Nicholas Hoover — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:10:00 EST

Deputy Defense secretary William Lynn says procurement reforms should be ready by the spring.

Interop New York: Spotlight On Cloud Computing, Networking, Virtualization

Paul McDougall — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:27:00 EST

The networking techfest, Nov. 16-20, will illuminate today's most important IT trends and technologies.

Global CIO: SAP's Spread Out Payment Plan Is Good But Not Enough

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

Guest column about how SAP can extend its leadership in bringing new pricing models to the ERP market.

Web 2.0 Expo: The Power Of Less

Thomas Claburn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:33:00 EST

Next week's Web 2.0 Expo will explore business opportunity and innovation in a time of uncertainty.

Global CIO: Cloud Computing's New Name: 500 Reader Suggestions!

Bob Evans — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

The CEOs of HP and IBM say "cloud computing" is a lousy name, so we asked you to come up with a new term--and your 500 responses tell us a lot about ourselves.

Avaya-Nortel Acquisition Gets OK

W. David Gardner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

U.S. and Canadian regulatory agencies have signed off on the $900 million acquisition of Nortel's enterprise solutions unit.

Intel, AMD Strike $1.25 Billion Antitrust Pact

Paul McDougall — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:20:00 EST

Agreement settles multiple claims AMD filed against chip industry competitor.

Global CIO: SAP Tells Oracle To Free Java But Keeps Own Software Closed

Bob Evans — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about SAP CTO arguing that Oracle and Sun should place Java in public domain, but he doesn't think SAP should have to follow same policy.

Cisco Considers Withdrawal Of Tandberg Offer

W. David Gardner — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST

Tandberg stockholders have until Nov. 18 to vote on Cisco's $3 billion acquisition bid.

NASA Space Technologies Go Mainstream

John Foley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:07:00 EST

In its annual report, the space agency identifies 49 technologies that are being repurposed in the private sector, including scheduling software for hospitals and a tuning circuit for 3G networks.

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Japanese Bank Outsources To IBM

Paul McDougall — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST

Big Blue will manage and maintain servers and other IT assets for Chugoku Bank