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Google: Firms can 'get rid' of Office in a year
News Search giant sets sights on office software leader, Microsoft Office, with "30 to 50 updates" to be released for Google Docs next year, says top exec.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Google Inc., OpenDocument Format, Worker, Microsoft Corp., software, Office Open XML, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Net community mourns former Philippine leader
News Filipinos turn to social networks and blogs, including Facebook "virtual wake", to pay last respects to former president Corazon Aquino who died Aug. 1.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Twitter, Philippines, Video, social networking, Facebook, network, leader, Joel D. Pinaroc
Arroyo makes last pitch for Philippine ICT dept
News Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, who ends her term in less than a year, makes final appeal for lawmakers to pass bill to create standalone ICT unit.
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Information And Communication Technology, Business Process, BPO, U.S. Department of Transportation, Microsoft Office, agency, U.S. Congress, legislator
US White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports
News Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.
Tags: Data security, E-mail servers, Security Management, E-mail Address, Republican, e-mail, aide, White House, health care, Sen.
Inspiration from a democracy icon
Blogs I think it was Anthony Spaeth, correspondent of Time magazine during the 1986 Philippine revolution, who said Filipinos ...
Regulating the unregulated telecoms market
Blogs It was on a plane trip back home from Singapore that I was able to grab a copy of a magazine (I can’t remember if it was...
Bill would give US president emergency control of Internet
News Critics question revised proposal from U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller to let the White House do what it deems necessary to respond to a "cybersecurity emergency".
Tags: Web sites, Cybersecurity, U.S. Senate, computer, aide, White House, Electronic Frontier Foundation, network, Internet, president
McAfee seeks gag on exec ousted over options
News Former McAfee President Kevin Weiss wants to clear his name after being awarded damages over his firing, but McAfee wants the information to remain confidential.
Tags: Antivirus software, Stock, Dallas, McAfee Inc., arbitration, SEC, Texas, tax, president, stock option
A look back at Arroyo's ICT term
Blogs As I watched the State of the Nation Address (Sona) of Pres. Gloria Arroyo last Monday, I noticed that she peppered her ...
Sony Ericsson taps Nordberg as next president
News Bert Nordberg, who's been heading the handset maker's R&D efforts in Silicon Valley, will start the executive transition as co-president in September.
Tags: Cellular phones, Leadership, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, co-president, handset maker, CEO, R&D, strategy, Ericsson Inc., president
President of Google's Greater China leaving Google
News In 2005, Kai-Fu Lee decamped from Microsoft to take over Google's China operations, sparking a legal battle between the companies. Now he's starting his own venture.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Kai-Fu Lee, speech recognition, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Graphics Inc., leadership team, Microsoft Corp., China, Redmond
Former Yahoo sales exec to head AOL's Platform-A
News Greg Coleman, who left Yahoo early in 2008, will take over from acting Platform-A head Lynda Clazirio.
Tags: Internet advertising, Direct marketing, Mobile advertising, Print advertising, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Sales, Advertisement, Direct marketing, New York
Obama names science and technology team
News U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
Tags: R&D, Defense/military, Federal Government, Politics, Science, Human Genome Project, Oregon State University, John Holdren, Eric Lander, Lubchenco
Dell regroups around four customer segments
News Two executives, Mike Cannon and Mark Jarvis, are departing as the computer maker regroups globally around four types of customers.
Tags: SMB, Global strategic management, Government, IT outsourcing, Motorola Inc., Chief Information Officer, Small And Medium Business, chief marketing officer, computer company, CEO
CEO of Internet oversight group to step down
News Paul Twomey will continue to helm ICANN until the board appoints a successor at the organization that is about to make some major changes.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, ICANN, U.S. Department of Commerce, Paul Twomey, DNS, chairman, CEO, Internet, leadership
