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Asian Linux to receive Korean backing
News Beyond its Chinese and Japanese creators, Asianux is set to get a Korean backer, bolstering its hopes of becoming a pan-Asian Linux standard.
Tags: Open source
IBM trims Global Services team
News IBM's Global Services division takes a hit after last week's server-unit cuts.
Customers await Sun-Microsoft integration
News Cooperation between Sun and Microsoft probably won't drastically alter the IT landscape, but it should eliminate some integration headaches.
Tags: Business applications
HP investigates Greenpeace toxic claims
News Never mind about exploding batteries, it's the toxic chemicals used to make notebooks that are the real danger, warns the environmental group.
Tags: Hardware
HP struggles, sees some improvement, post-Fiorina
News Hewlett-Packard exec says company is hummin' along as it headhunts a new CEO and tries to broaden some first-quarter financial results.
Tags: Hardware
Industry group to polish desktop Linux
News Red Hat, IBM and an open-source consortium are each beginning serious work to advance Linux for use on desktop computers.
Company looks to capitalize on free XML tool
News Austria-based Altova hopes that a free authoring application will help it stand out in the booming Extensible Markup Language software market.
Tags: XML
Oracle upbeat on growth
News Despite a sales setback in the software industry, company has rosy outlook, points to growth in server applications market.
Short Take: IBM axes Australian workers
News IBM Global Services Australia, an outsourcing division of the computer giant, has cut 64 jobs from its data-processing units in Sydney and Melbourne, leading to a mass walkout of 150 workers.
IBM expands search push with Masala
News Big Blue unveils an upgrade to its storage management software designed to handle boxes from rival EMC. But EMC suggests the technology is flawed.
Tags: Storage management, Content management
IBM cancer case begins
News SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Court arguments in the landmark toxic-chemical case against IBM opened in Santa Clar Tuesday, as an attorney for two former employees claimed the computer giant knew of symptoms of ongoing chemical poisoning among workers.
Rivals make run at Microsoft Office
News Is the multibillion-dollar cash cow vulnerable at last to alternatives? Google, Yahoo and IBM seem to think so.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites
HP accused of labor violations cover-up
News Whistle-blower lawsuit claims managers were told to shred notes from meeting that revealed that the company was misclassifying workers.
Tags: HR policies and procedures
Morgan Stanley, IBM ink utility computing deal
News Big Blue makes another major "on demand" win with Morgan Stanley, which will move some of its business applications from a mainframe environment to a shared IBM infrastructure.
Tags: Server consolidation, Infrastructure/architecture management
IBM heeds message to integrate IM, e-mail
News IBM wants to take the mess out of messaging, with an experimental application called NotesBuddy.
Tags: Personal applications
