Accounting
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Despite scandal, Satyam pulls off 'best outcome'
News Year after founder admitted to inflating profits, Indian IT services vendor--with greater transparency and new owner and brand--has done well, says analyst.
Tags: Services, Service level management, IT outsourcing, Financial, IT Services, India, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Information Technology, analyst
Most security products flunk quality tests
News Nearly 80 percent of security tools fail to perform during initial certification tests, requiring two or more cycles of further testing, reports product testing firm.
Tags: Security applications/tools, ICSA Labs, Verizon Communications Inc., Security, Security Product, performance, Security Update, accounting, Security applications/tools
Growing demand for fixed broadband to go on
News Number of subscribers of fixed-based services in Asia-Pacific region will continue rising despite demand for mobile broadband, says Frost & Sullivan.
Tags: DSL, Network infrastructure, Next-generation technology/networks, IP Television, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia, Broadband, South Korea, Japan
China's mobile Net users double to 233M
News Users surfing Web through mobile phones doubled year-on-year in 2009, while total Internet users grew almost a third.
Tags: Ovum, Internet Access, Phone, cell phone, mobile, Internet User, 3G, China, Internet, analyst
Accounting rule change could boost Apple revenue
News Proposed change would allow Apple to recognize revenue for the iPhone immediately instead of over eight quarters.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., GAAP, IEEE 802.11n, Apple TV, Apple iPod, technology company, Apple iPhone, accounting
Accounting rule change approved by FASB
News Change allows companies like Apple to recognize revenue much faster.
Tags: Business structures, Apple Inc., TV, Sales, Apple TV, financial, Apple iPhone, agreement, accounting, Business structures
Report: Apple's Jobs maintained stock-option ignorance
News Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the SEC in a 2008 deposition that he had no idea Apple lawyers had falsified documents nor did he understand the accounting implications of backdating.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Corporate law, Apple Inc., Backdating, CFO, Stock, stock-option backdating, job, SEC, accounting
Verdict on Satyam Aust facility not out
News Victorian Premier John Brumby says it is still too early to tell if the US$63 million facility in Geelong will pan out, as Mahindra-Satyam is still considering investment.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business structures, Services, Investment, Training, Outsourcing Company, Spokesperson, Government, Associated Press, career
How far should the govt go in rescuing Satyam?
Blogs A week after B. Ramalinga Raju made his famous confessions of committing a US$1.5 billion accounting fraud, one thing is...
What not to do after a scandal
Blogs And so the proverb goes that silence is golden--especially when you've just come off a flight with bawling kids. But ...
Adobe issues first-quarter warning
News Company says it will miss its previous forecast for revenue, but it expects to meet its profit forecast thanks to managing its expenses.
Tags: Digital media, Earning reports/forecasts, Adobe Systems Inc., GAAP, software company, performance, revenue forecast, CEO, revenue, operating profit
Microsoft cuts 800 more jobs
News The latest workers to have their jobs eliminated are being notified, in what Microsoft said completes personnel reductions announced earlier this year.
Tags: Layoffs, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Money, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, job, Small Business, layoff, Silicon Valley
Bug testers: Google is clean, Bing is buggy
News Recent contest to probe search engines for bugs found technical issues with Microsoft's Bing but gave it and Google high marks for experience delivered.
Tags: Search, GUI, Bug, Survey, QA, outsource, accounting, Search
M'sian SMBs not demanding managed services
News There has to be more investment in awareness and marketing of managed communications services, to break the trend of low demand and supply for such services in the country, says analyst.
Tags: Service level management, Services, Network infrastructure, Business, Ovum, Mobile, Telecommunications, Survey, Small And Medium Business, Malaysia
Spam reduced following Pricewert shutdown
News Botnets appear to have suffered a big blow with the shutdown of Pricewert, resulting in the reduction of spam activities by 15 percent globally.
Tags: Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Spammer, FTC, Internet Service, Anti-spam, Internet User, Symantec Corp., Internet Service Provider
