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Will Windows 7 reboot PC sales?
News Boost to tech business from Microsoft's new operating system may be buffered, as economy remains primary reason for holdup in PC sales.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Chip Company, Microsoft Windows 7, Sales, Microsoft Windows, analyst, PC, Netbook
eBay at 10: Boon and bane
Insight The online auction giant has been a boon to many antique dealers and collectors. But has a unique curio culture been left behind?
Tags: Personal applications, Business development/management
Is your TV virus-proof?
News As more cars and home appliances get networked, owners run a greater risk of contracting computer viruses.
Tags: Security applications/tools
McAfee sees rise in stock scams, social-engineering attacks
News Security firm predicts scammers will try to use exploits to manipulate the stock market.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Microsoft Corp., Malware, Security, Attack, Stock, Advertisement, stock price, software, McAfee Inc.
Microsoft's Plan B for search
News Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is eyeing semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google.
Tags: Search, Web services, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Search Engine, job, professor
Another shakeup at Samsung
News A new CEO is anointed to head the Korean tech giant in the wake of Chairman Lee Kun Hee's exit. Is this real change--or seatwarming for Lee's son?
Tags: Leadership, Change mangement, Semiconductor, Chip, NAND flash, stock price, South Korean company, chairman, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Harvard Business School
Staples sells stake in online unit
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HP exec to lead EDS Australia
News One of HP's executives has been appointed to lead the Australia and New Zealand division of its new subsidiary, IT outsourcing giant EDS, with the group's acting managing director Neil Emerson being shunted aside in the process.
Tags: Services, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing Company, Asia-Pacific, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spokesperson, Australia, Japan, managing director, vice president
Indian IT firms get creative when hiring
News With a labor supply that is no longer endless, the smartest companies look for creative ways to satisfy ambitions.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Asset/resource/knowledge management
Web site offers business book summaries
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Is Silicon Valley strangled by SOX?
News Netscape founder Jim Clark's exit from the board at Shutterfly raises questions about running start-ups in the shadow of Sarbanes-Oxley.
IBM makes the world its lab
News Convincing countries and companies around the world of need to innovate during the economic downturn, has resulted in new cutting-edge partnerships for Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., University, Chip, Samuel J. Palmisano, intellectual property, Switzerland, China Telecom, China, strategy
Keeping up with the times, TCS-style
Insight newsmaker CTO K. Ananth Krishnan shares the value of innovation in Tata Consultancy Services' scheme of expansion.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Innovation
Female execs face old song in new media
News Despite early optimism that prevailed a few years ago, women are still finding it difficult to break into the executive ranks of the new media world.
Female execs face old song in new media
News At the advent of the age of new media, experts predicted that the new technology would be a boon, particularly for female producers and content providers.
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