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What IT really needs to learn about tech
Insight BMC Software chief Bob Beauchamp on the revenge of the CFO and the tech industry's response.
Tags: IT Management, Web services, Software integration
Spending Google's money on conscientious causes
Insight Dr. Larry Brilliant heads the company's efforts to fight global warming and poverty, and aid public health.
Tags: Web 2.0
Red Hat to step up developer efforts
News CEO Jim Whitehurst pledges to boost open source vendor's efforts to drive developer activity, and says company is unfazed by desktop competition.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, Ubuntu, software company, ISV, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, desktop, Open source
Google.org exec leaves to tackle urgent threats
News Dr. Larry Brilliant is leaving the search giant's nonprofit arm for the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund to tackle nuclear proliferation, water shortages, and other issues.
Tags: Human resources, Inconvenient Truth, Google Inc., Officer, University of Michigan, Al Gore, Global Warming, Middle East, exec, advisor
Intel, McCaw team up on WiMax
Insight The chipmaking giant and wireless pioneer McCaw join forces on WiMax--a significant move for the emerging industry.
Tags: Processors, WiMax, Personal broadband
Stumbleupon picks up the pace
News Company to unveil a public version of its Web discovery plug-in for Internet Explorer in hopes of expanding membership.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers
Maxthon: China's hip browser
News The increasingly popular software is gaining converts, often as a means to bypass censors.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers
CleanBoard: Recycled drywall from a solar factory
News Can drywall be carbon neutral? Start-up CleanBoard plans to use a solar-powered factory to make wall board from entirely recycled materials.
Tags: Green IT, Plant, Conference, Manufacturing, CleanBoard, Rod MacGregor, Boston, San Francisco, pollution, News.com
Open-source security push gets US$20M
News Intrusion prevention vendor Sourcefire has secured extra capital to fuel its expansion into Europe and Japan.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Open source
Exodus aims to raise US$800m
News The Net-infrastructure company says it will sell 13 million shares in a secondary offering and also make available US$500 million worth of convertible bonds.
Exodus aims to raise US$800 million
News Exodus Communications said Monday it will sell 13 million shares in a secondary offering and also make available US$500 million worth of convertible bonds.
Short Take: PCCW to sell US$2b in bonds to cut US$4.7b debt
News Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd, Hong Kong's biggest phone company, plans to sell US$2 billion in bonds to extend the repayment period of US$4.7 billion in debt.
Alien Technology grabs US$66 million venture funding
News The additional venture financing brings total venture capital funding to more than US$200 million for the supplier of RFID tags.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, RFID
Foreign investment flunks R&D in China
News Foreign investment has largely failed to introduce advanced technology to China, a recent survey revealed in contrast to widely-held expectations that international investment would boost homegrown R&D.
No resurrection for BenQ Mobile
News There is to be no resurrection for BenQ Mobile--the former handset maker has announced would-be bidders for its now defunct operations have pulled out.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mergers
