In Google Shake-Up, an Effort to Revive Start-Up Spark
January 21, 2011 by abhijit · Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO — Google made the biggest management shake-up in a decade on Thursday, handing the reins of the company to one of its co-founders in an effort to rediscover its start-up roots.
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Eric Schmidt, right, and Larry Page, in July. Read more
Google music store could launch this fall
June 15, 2010 by saloni · Leave a Comment
Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO is preparing to take on Apple’s iTunes. Schmidt visited with Doug Morris, Universal Music Group CEO (left) and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, the Sony Music chief, during the Vevo launch party last December. Read more
Infosys plans to hire 30,000 foreigners
June 15, 2010 by saloni · Leave a Comment
CHENNAI: IT major Infosys today said it will set up development centres in countries like China and Mexico and would hire 30,000 people, including foreigners, this year. Read more
Apple’s iAds challenge Google
June 9, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
Microsoft, Adobe issue critial patches
June 9, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
Adobe Systems Inc separately said that it would issue an update to its Flash Player on Thursday to address a vulnerability in the current version that hackers were exploiting to secretly gain remote access to computers. Read more
Microsoft Dynamics + Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 = The Future of Productivity
June 9, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
REDMOND, Wash. — May 27, 2010 — There was a time when the phrase “works well with others” belonged primarily in school report cards. But in today’s complex and interrelated IT landscape, working together is at the heart of productivity, with businesses demanding solutions that build bridges between disconnected business systems and enhance collaboration. Read more
Publishers bet big on iPad
June 8, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
This doesn’t mean Apple’s tablet computer will live up to its hype as a potential lifeline for the media industry. Online ads still generate a small fraction of news companies’ advertising revenue, and it’s an open question whether print ads will return to what they totaled before the recession. Read more
Microsoft Introducing “Point and Click,” Our IT Advisors for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
June 8, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
REDMOND, Wash. – June 2, 2010 – Matt Hester loves to find cool new technology. Keith Combs loves to find ways technology makes businesses more efficient. Together they are “Point and Click — The IT Investigators,” a new Microsoft team whose Internet radio shows are designed to help small- and medium-sized business managers understand and take advantage of the powerful new technologies available to them.
The talk-radio-type shows, in which Hester and Combs chat with real business owners about their everyday challenges, launched May 26 on the Microsoft News Center’s Small- and Medium-Sized Business virtual press kit. A new episode of Hester and Combs’s business conversations will appear roughly every two weeks. Read more
Yahoo team up with Facebook
June 7, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
Microsoft defends Windows security
June 5, 2010 by Mike · Leave a Comment
Google declined to respond to an AFP inquiry, saying only: “As a rule, we don’t comment on operational matters.”
Microsoft, however, felt that stories published in the Financial Times and elsewhere warranted a fast, firm rebuttal. Read more