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HP-EDS merger draws legal suits
News Unhappy with the price, and the lack of space for negotiation on pricing, a U.S. organization and an EDS shareholder are using legal means to try to halt the deal.
Tags: Legal, Mergers, Services, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Services, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Information Week, shareholder, U.S., information technology
Why your business should embrace Web 2.0
Insight Web 2.0 technologies can be a boon to businesses--find out how in this excerpt from Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Internet advertising, Wiki, Tool, Enterprise 2.0, Harvard Business Review, Alvin Toffler, social networking, vision
Know your resources in the war against spam
Insight If you've made the decision to filter your organization's incoming e-mail, your next step is to determine exactly how. This rundown of spam control methodologies can help you in your decision on which path to take.
Security firm spots Chrome 'SaveAs' flaw
News Bach Khoa Internet Security of Vietnam reports that the new Google browser is susceptible to a critical buffer-overflow flaw.
Tags: Web browsers, Security, Google Inc., Vulnerability, Flaw, Information Week, software, researcher, malicious code, blog
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
News Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Game players, Games, Gamer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox 360, console, digital-rights management, Activision Inc.
Report: Turkish hackers breached US Army servers
News Investigators believe hackers used an SQL injection attack to break into U.S. Army servers and redirect visitors to other sites, according to report.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Network security, Security Management, U.S. Army, SQL, Server, SQL Injection, Turkey, Oklahoma
Google's plans for Android's YouTube
News The company releases more information about some of the goodies we can expect out of version 1.5 of the Android smartphone operating system.
Tags: Linux, Smart phones, Google Picasa, Google Inc., Web Browser, Video, photograph, T-Mobile G1, YouTube Inc., T-Mobile
Firefox market share on a rollercoaster ride
News Mozilla's Firefox has lost market share to Internet Explorer in September, after recovering in August.
Tags: Web browsers, Market research
Malware to blame in US supermarket data breach
News Malicious software somehow found its way onto a Maine-based supermarket chain's servers, which led to the security breach announced earlier this month compromising up to 4.2 million credit cards.
Tags: Security
Apple's Papermaster countersues IBM
News According to court documents, lawyers for Papermaster plan to claim that Big Blue's noncompete agreement is too broad and should not apply to a consumer electronics company.
Tags: Executive recruiting, Legal, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Apple iPod, technology company, InformationWeek, Apple iPhone, Texas, Austin
Apple denies use of ZFS in Leopard
News Mac OS X will not make use of the ZFS file system, despite Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz saying it would.
Tags: Mac OS, Business applications
Microsoft DRM tool locked out genuine users
News Windows Genuine Advantage servers suffered disruption over the weekend, with XP and Vista users treated as if they had counterfeit software.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM)
Microsoft offers protocols to its rivals
News In a nod to the European Commission, Microsoft will open up three sets of application protocols for use by its competitors.
Tags: Protocols and platforms
PC makers find ways to extend XP's life
News There will be big-name XP computers sold after Jun. 30. Technically, they won't actually be XP machines. They'll be "pre-downgraded" Vista machines.
Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Vista, Notebook, Lenovo Group Ltd., computer company, Microsoft Windows XP, workstation, Dell Computer Corp., desktop
Yahoo shareholders fight rejection of Microsoft bid
News The Internet company deals with layoffs, new shareholder lawsuits and potential deals with Google and News Corp.
Tags: Layoffs, Mergers, Acquisitions
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