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Symantec exec wants 'better love life' for users
Insight newsmaker Symantec Chief Marketing Officer Carine Clark explains importance of focusing on customers over products in the face of security threats.
Tags: PC security, Network security, Security applications/tools, Antivirus software, Security implementation/standards, Security, job, Microsoft Corp., software, General Motors Corp.
Sony's Crackle expands movie lineup
News The site, which competes with Hulu, is targeting men aged 18 to 34 with a now-heftier list of full-length films. What's unclear is whether the same flicks will head to YouTube.
Tags: Video, TV, Sony Pictures, digital content, News Corp., YouTube Inc., movie, senior vice president, NBC Universal Inc., Video
Next Mac Office, due by 2010's end, gets Outlook
News Microsoft says it is working on a new version of its Mac Office product which will include a Mac version of Outlook, replacing Entourage.
Tags: Business applications, Apple Inc., Exchange, Apple Macintosh, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Outlook
Academics sink teeth into Yahoo search service
News Yahoo hopes its Build Your Own Search Service program has piqued the interest of academic researchers.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., software, researcher, Yahoo Search, revenue, U.S., talent
Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers
News A key part of the company's effort to socially overhaul its Web properties arrives next week as developers get access to Yahoo Open Strategy technology.
Tags: Programming languages, Yahoo! Inc., Developer, Facebook, photograph, Flickr, Internet, BOSS, Programming languages, YQL
LinkedIn's platform loosens up
News Professional networking site now lets developers access its application programming interface to import LinkedIn features into external sites.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Software engineering/development, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter Inc., network, Web 2.0, Web sites, API
Survey: Over half of US workplaces block social networks
News A survey of companies' chief information officers reveals that only 10 percent of companies allow unlimited personal social-networking activity on the job and over half block it altogether.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, Workplace, Twitter Inc., Survey, independent research firm, network, U.S. company, job
Aussie chief of Nokia-Siemens to leave
News Australian chief of Nokia Siemens Networks, Simon Beresford-Wylie, will leave by November.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Siemens AG, Asia-Pacific, Telstra Corp., networking company, mobile company, network infrastructure, mobile operator
Report: HP mulls merging printer, PC units
News Tech giant is reportedly considering reuniting the units, which were combined and then separated in 2005 under two different chief executives.
Tags: Personal Computers, Peripherals, Printer, Computer, Mark Hurd, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Personal Computers, Peripherals, Hewlett-Packard Co.
The PCs that the flood took away
Blogs As a super typhoon prepares to lash the Philippines this week--the third time in a month--I ask for the indulgence of th...
A good server naming convention eases IT workload
Techguide Frisky? DC1? Bozo? Pluto? ESX1? These are all server names. Which ones make the most sense? Scott Lowe discusses server naming in this article.
Tags: Servers, Infrastructure/architecture management, Server platforms, Convention, Firewall, Printer, Infrastructure/architecture management, Scott Lowe, CIO, Information Technology
Sinofsky's Windows plan: More data, less testosterone
News Head of Microsoft's Windows unit tells why he does things the way he does and how data of real-world use show things that might not be intuitive to Redmond's engineers.
Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Conference, Microsoft Corp., software, Microsoft Windows Vista, Graphics, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Redmond
Where have all the bosses gone?
Blogs I've had dreams of opening my own cafe or bistro...cum music store...cum music school. But, I soon gave up that dream wh...
WiMax: Waiting to explode in Philippines?
Blogs Last weekend, I had the chance to take part in an offsite press event organized by Smart Communications, the topdog in t...
Not all employees are created equal
Blogs "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." I read that famous line in George Orwell's Anim...
