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Visibility lacking in supply chain

News Lack of insight into systems data is the greatest challenge facing organizations in the supply chain, yet many are not correcting this, study finds.

Monday, March 16 2009 07:40 PM

Tags: Supply chain, Supply chain integration, IBM Corp., Risk Management, Asia, supply chain management leader, Supply chain integration, Survey, Asia-Pacific, SCM

Chartered Semiconductor falls to 'junk' status

News news analysis Credit-rating company Fitch Ratings cuts the Singapore-based foundry's debt rating to "junk" on concern over its unprofitability.

Friday, August 15 2008 11:28 AM

Tags: Financial, Earning reports/forecasts, Sales/revenue, Processors, India, Foundry, Semiconductor, Chip, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., brand name

VMware unfazed by Microsoft's guerrilla marketing

News CEO Paul Maritz has dismissed Microsoft's marketing tactics at the VMworld conference as the strategy of a virtualization underdog.

Thursday, September 18 2008 09:52 AM

Tags: Virtualization, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Conference, VMware Inc., software, software virtualization, Web Address, leader, Las Vegas

Cern bombards LHC grid with data

News Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information.

Monday, July 06 2009 08:51 AM

Tags: grid computing, Database management

Outsourcer Satyam names new CEO

News The Indian outsourcer has announced that AS Murty is CEO effective immediately, following the resignation of former chairman Ramalinga Raju who admitted inflating the company's revenue.

Tuesday, February 10 2009 07:52 AM

Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Recruiting, Outsourcing Company, Officer, CEO, decision-making, leader, asset, advisor

India's BJP chases Obama's online election magic

News Supporters of party leader L.K. Advani are blogging away and perfecting his Web site. Their inspiration: the U.S. Presidential campaign.

Tuesday, April 21 2009 01:11 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, India, Bharatiya Janata Party, Cell Phone, New Delhi, Barack Obama, phone, leader, Prime Minister, Internet

Microsoft, Brother sign patent-sharing deal

News The printer company agrees to pay Microsoft for use of intellectual property, but most other details of the deal remain secret.

Monday, February 09 2009 06:18 AM

Tags: Peripherals, Software, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Brother, intellectual property, printer, printer company, leader, Seiko Epson Corp.

IBM moves into social networking in the cloud

News LotusLive Engage aims to offer easy-to-use applications with high-security features so a company can get its employees working together outside its firewall.

Thursday, April 02 2009 11:30 AM

Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Online Collaboration, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, collaboration business leader, LotusLive Engage, LotusLive Engage Tool, LotusLive Engage Suite, Cloud computing, Tool

Washington leaders meet with tech execs

News Executives from companies belonging to the group TechNet met with congressional leaders and White House officials on Wednesday to talk innovation, immigration, and patents.

Thursday, March 26 2009 11:33 AM

Tags: Business plans, Regulations, Republican, Executive, U.S. President Barack Obama, Microsoft TechNet, U.S. Senate, Broadband, Washington, CEO

Bartz revamps Yahoo to get faster, simpler

News Yahoo's new CEO is overhauling the Internet pioneer's management structure to be faster and more responsive to those who use its site. CFO Blake Jorgensen is out.

Friday, February 27 2009 08:01 AM

Tags: Search, Mobile, Hilary Schneider, David Ko, Ari Balogh, CFO, Yahoo! Inc., North America, chief technology officer, CEO

Study: US retains lead in science, tech

News Leadership, however, increasingly relies on the brain power of foreign-born students and employees.

Friday, June 13 2008 07:38 AM

Tags: Workplace, Venture capital, Science, India, Japan, Ingersoll-Rand, performance, leader, China, U.S.

Microsoft plans to release hypervisor

News The software maker has completed a final version of its Hyper-V technology, which is designed to handle virtualization tasks and competes with VMware.

Thursday, June 26 2008 09:36 PM

Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, leader

Samsung sets US$1B target for Thailand

News The Korean company has set ambitious growth targets for Thailand and other markets as it prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary of global operations in 2010.

Tuesday, December 16 2008 11:29 AM

Tags: Business development/management, Investments, Strategy, Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Storage, TV, Thailand, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., marketing

Microsoft calls on U.S. Congress to reconsider bailout

News In a statement, general counsel Brad Smith says the measure was "vitally important to the health and preservation of jobs in all sectors of the economy".

Tuesday, September 30 2008 10:36 AM

Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, Brad Smith, U.S. House of Representatives, general counsel, DJIA, financial, job