A Pittsburgh computer consulting company accused of showing a preference for H-1B temporary visa holders in its job vacancy ads has agreed to pay a $45,000 fine as part of a settlement with the federal government.
During a monthlong period in spring 2006, the firm iGate Mastech published 30 …
A California judge has issued a public apology and agreed to pay $100,000 to the founder of Siebel Systems for damaging his reputation in a lawsuit she filed as a lawyer in the mid-1990s.
San Mateo Superior Court Judge Carol Mittlesteadt issued a letter of apology to Tom Siebel …
The current premium XBox 360 is black. Is blue next?
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Following HD DVD’s demise, there’s been a lot speculation that Microsoft would add a Blu-ray option to the XBox 360. The latest rumor has a subsidiary of Asus, Pegatron Technology, making a premium Blu-ray-equipped version of
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Yahoo investors, you may want to cool your heels.
If Microsoft acts like a number of any other corporate America titans, chances are it’s not likely to announce any “big” market-moving news until after the bell closes–at the earliest.
Public companies tend to roll out their huge news either …
Sprint Nextel on Thursday announced that is has tapped former Eastman Kodak executive Robert Brust, 64, to be its next chief financial officer.
Robert Brust, CFO, Sprint Nextel
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The beleaguered wireless carrier, which hired a new CEO at the end of last year, has made several management changes …
As expected, Amazon.com is hitting back at New York over a new law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes from customers residing in that state.
In a complaint filed on April 25, Amazon asked the New York State Supreme Court to declare the recently passed law “invalid, illegal, …
Sun Microsystems’ most recent quarter took a hit from a slumping U.S. economy, according to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Revenue from Sun’s server computers and storage products fell 2.8 percent. The company plans up to 2,500 job cuts as it seeks to balance expenses with growth.
But from where will the growth come?
Sun is betting big on open source to drive adoption, which should, in turn, drive revenue (done right). I spoke with Sun’s software chief, John Fowler, the other day, and I asked him about whether the strategy is, in fact, working. How much growth is Sun seeing in its software business?
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Mozilla Europe’s founder, Tristan Nitot, has no problem with free software. Indeed, his organization has created some of the best of it. But when software technologies like Adobe Systems’ Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight are free but proprietary, they can create all sorts of problems. “Free” without “open” can become a one-way ticket to technology prison.
Adobe has recently taken steps to open up its Flash technology, but Nitot’s concern is still valid:
He described the nature of the Web at the moment as open but suggested that “proprietary solutions running on top of the Web are trying to take over”…”So far, there has not been a problem,” Nitot said. “Both Adobe and Microsoft have been willing to give (Flash and Silverlight away) for free. But maybe they have an agenda. They’re not here for the glory; they’re here for the money.”
Nitot gave two historical examples of Microsoft and Adobe withdrawing or withholding products from certain platforms: Microsoft’s discontinuation of Internet Explorer for Unix and Mac, and Adobe’s long-standing refusal to “provide a recent version of Flash for Linux users.” He suggested that Web developers should be asking those companies whether they are “sure that Silverlight and Flash will always be available on all platforms (and) run decently on all platforms.”
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What happens when you don't have good image processing in your search engine? You get inconsistent results, as seen in this page returned for the query "McDonalds".
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Google is starting to provide a fuller picture of the work it’s undertaking to create a …
Faster is almost always better, at least when it comes to computers. So what’s the fastest way to open a word processor?
You can create a keyboard shortcut to open Notepad, WordPad, Word, or any other word processor on your PC by right-clicking the program’s shortcut on the …