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Report: Apple board to discuss Schmidt replacement next week
News Directors will meet next week to talk about who can fill the role recently vacated by the Google CEO, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Apple Inc., chairman, CEO, Eric Schmidt, desktop operating system, Steve Jobs, board
Apple's Steve Jobs back at work
News The company's chief executive has officially returned from a six-month medical leave of absence.
Tags: Personnel management, Investments, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Absence, Cupertino, CEO, Tennessee, senior vice president, Apple iPhone
Corporate bank accounts targeted in online fraud
News Small and midsize businesses, governments, and school districts are targets of online bank fraud involving malicious e-mails, key loggers, and money mules, FBI says.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Business security, Malware, Krebs, Security, bank, Authentication and encryption, Money, Web Browser
A case for mobile-based micro banks in urban areas
Blogs Today is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday--or Gandhi Jayanti, as the day is known here in India. While most know Gandhiji as th...
Popularizing S&T culture to the masses
Blogs What does it take for a country to become economically progressive? For sure, it involves a lot factors such as good...
MySpace names its first chief financial officer
News The News Corp. social network hires Mark Rosenbaum as CFO less than a week after it announced a new chief technology officer.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, MySpace, Web 2.0, CFO, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, News Corp., layoff, chief technology officer, co-founder
Pacnet increases network capacity by 50 percent
News Telecommunications service provider boosts its subsea cable network with largest capacity upgrade to date, to meet Asia's growing demand for broadband.
Tags: Bandwidth, Optical networking, Business broadband, Pacnet Ltd., network, Asia, cable network, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stock
UK government open source guidelines ignored, says Ingres
News Software tenders that have taken place since the government published its open source policy in February have ignored those guidelines, according to database firm Ingres.
Tags: Open source, Open-source Database, Chief Information Officer, Open-source Software, Ingres, proprietary software, open standard, Open source, incentive, ZDNet Asia
Facebook's COO: Response to disabled accounts was 'too slow'
News Sheryl Sandberg says the database failure was a consequence of the social network's rapid growth, which sometimes causes unexpected snags.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Social Networking, Database, California, Palo Alto, network, Web sites, Web 2.0
US Defense Department to partially lift flash drive ban
News Authorized individuals will be able to use USB thumb drives that are owned by the government and necessary for mission-critical functions, U.S. Navy CIO says.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, U.S. Department Of Defense, Malware, network, Chief Information Officer, Authentication and encryption, USB Flash Drive, medical record
Yahoo reportedly considers deleting Zimbra
News Web e-mail software company may not fit into a media-oriented Yahoo, and so Zimbra could be on the block just two years after being acquired.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web servers, Zimbra, Interactive Advertising Bureau, chief marketing officer, Comcast Corp., e-mail company, media company, private equity
Intel shakeup gives EMC a longtime chip exec
News Two tech titans are reshuffling their top ranks, with chip bigwig Pat Gelsinger headed from Intel to storage specialist EMC.
Tags: Processors, Business Strategies & Functions, Intel Corp., Paul Otellini, Chip, EMC Corp., Storage, general counsel, Joe Tucci, Processors
Report: Facebook, Nielsen to partner on ad stats
News An announcement in New York this week will unveil a program called "Brand Lift", which aims to put a number on the effectiveness of advertisements on Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Palo Alto, social networking, New York, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, Wall Street Journal, Internet advertising
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
News Microsoft executives Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi debut Twitter integration with Bing search results at Web 2.0 Summit. The Facebook partnership will come at a later date.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Search Result, financial, Web 2.0
Facebook and MySpace 'in talks'? Of course
News Good move for both companies as MySpace tries to move away from its image as a social network that lost to Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, MySpace, CEO, U.K., network, Web 2.0, Video, News Corp.
