IT tech moves that matter – for good and bad, 12/20/07 Selected by readers, bloggers and other industry watchers, here’s what companies did right and wrong in ’07, and why the moves matter. Double-Take snaps up TimeSpring, 01/03/08 The last of the independent CDP (continuous data protection) players has disappeared, after replication software provider Double-Take, purchased CDP supplier TimeSpring. Motorola buys Soundbuzz to expand music offerings, 01/07/08 Motorola will acquire online music store Soundbuzz in a bid to expand its mobile music offerings in Asia, the company said Monday. OLPC CTO Jepsen quits nonprofit effort, 12/31/07 The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow this week, with Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC. EMC will buy Document Sciences for $85 million, 12/22/07 Storage company EMC has agreed to buy Document Sciences, a developer of software for personalizing mailshots and other communications. The acquisition will allow EMC to extend its offering in the field of transactional content management, which it ... Broadcom says Qualcomm is importing chips against ban, 12/21/07 The U.S. International Trade Commission said it will investigate whether Qualcomm is complying with a ban that prohibits it from importing certain chips into the U.S. 8 hot-button issues to watch in '08, 01/03/08 Ready for 2008? Budgets may tighten up, but IT's challenges will just keep growing: security problems, virtualization technology, legal issues, users who can't be stopped and that worrisome baby-boomer brain drain. Here are eight hot-button issues to watch out for in the coming year. Federal judge orders stop to Qualcomm chip sales, 01/01/08 A U.S. federal judge has clamped further restrictions on Qualcomm's ability to sell and support certain wireless chipsets, saying that they infringe on three patents held by rival Broadcom. Wall Street Beat: Uncertainty rules '08 outlook, 12/21/2007 In the last full trading week of the year, the NetSuite IPO, acquisition news and earnings reports from Oracle, Palm and RIM highlighted technology ... Oracle's earnings soar, 12/19/2007 Robust software sales pushed Oracle's second-quarter net income up 35 percent compared to the same period last year, to $1.3 billion, or $0.25 ... |
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