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Consumer electronics hit by inventory glut
News Inventories pile up for manufacturers of computers, mobile phones and TVs, signaling a worse-than-forecast fourth quarter.
Tags: Hardware, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Cost control, Business development/management, SanDisk Corp., Inventory, TV, Electronics, Sales
Study: Wi-Fi proliferating in homes
News More people are using wireless networking technology Wi-Fi in their homes than in offices or public places, according to research firm IDC.
AOL to lay off 20 percent of workforce
News AOL sends e-mail to U.S. employees saying on Tuesday it will begin cutting its worldwide workforce by 2,000.
Tags: Layoffs
Mom-and-pop multinationals
News Improved software and services allow the smallest businesses to outsource work around the globe.
Tags: Business, Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, eLance, Google Inc., India, Real Estate, venture capital, software, food
News Corp.'s challenge to Google
News Rupert Murdoch may make a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the only search engine to deliver News Corp. content--unless antitrust cops object.
Tags: Antitrust, Search, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal, vice president
News Corp.'s talks with Microsoft: A flawed deal?
News Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Social Networking, MySpace, Google Inc., Arianna Huffington, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal
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, New York, Programming
AMD reorg merges microprocessor, graphics units
News Troubled chipmaker's second reorganization in little more than a year will combine its microprocessor and graphics units.
Tags: Processors, Leadership, Organizational structure, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Graphics, microprocessor, graphics chip
SMS use in Philippines gets personal
Blogs It's easy to ignore things especially when it's become part of one's everyday routine. Filipinos, for instance, have got...
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News Green Dam blocking software has errors that could be used to build botnet and allow uploading of programs by an outsider, say University of Michigan researchers.
Tags: Security, University of Michigan, computer, Programming, spyware, researcher, private data, teacher, Web Site, Web
Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
Techguide Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard so much so you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Databases, Medicare, Wells Fargo & Co., data mining, entertainment, data warehouse, Teradata, Data centers
URL shortening is hot--but look before you leap
News Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them.
Tags: Web sites, Network administration/implementation, Spam and phishing, Twitter, Web Page, Database, Service, API, DNS, analytics
Short Take: Musicians sue MP3.com
News A group of musicians including Tom Waits, Randy Newman and members of the band Heart has sued MP3.com for US$40 million on charges of copyright infringement.
Short Take: Boeing to beam movies to cinemas via satellite
News Movie buffs around the world may no longer fret that they don't get to see Hollywood movies fast enough once they have been released in the United States.
Dell goes shopping at Wal-Mart for new CIO
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