Monthly Archives: September 2007
Mind the Gap: Personal Info Stolen
A vendor managing job applicant data for clothing retailer Gap lost personal information, including Social Security numbers for some 800,000 U.S. and Canadian job...
Wal-Mart.com to Shut Down Its Online Call Center
Consumers trying to make purchases from the Walmart.com Web site wont be able to phone for help anymore.Pointing to improvements to the Web site,...
For Ex-AMD Exec, Timing Was Important
Henri Richard knew the window of opportunity was going to close fairly quickly.For almost six years, Richard worked for Advanced Micro Devices and became...
U.S. Ranks Low in Google Downtime Study
When it comes to global downtime, Google doesnt seem to play favorites.Among 32 key countries Google plays in locally, its home country of the...
What’s Your Job Doing to Keep You from Retiring?
Home Depot may not be the first company people think of when they think of organizations that aggressively recruit older workers, but that's usually...
Is Google Dodging H-1B Limits?
Of all the reasons that Google listed when it let slip this week that it will be hiring thousands to create an European research...
SAPs Business ByDesign Brings Partner Conundrums in SAAS Model
SAPs Business ByDesignBrings Partner Conundrums in SAAS Model ">SAP has spent four years and somewhere between $400 million and $500 million building its newly...
AT&T Wireless Messaging Goes Down
AT&T Wireless on Sept. 28 experienced a nationwide outage of its messaging service, affecting customers for about 3 hours.According to officials of San Antonio-based...
Bain Capital to Acquire 3Com for $2.2B
Beleaguered 3Com announced on Sept. 28 that it has struck a deal to be taken private by Bain Capital and former Chinese partner Huawei...
Senate Doesn’t Throw Gas on Google’s DoubleClick Fire
I'm a little nonplussed by the way the Google-DoubleClick hearing with the Senate went yesterday. I mean, I expected some verbal jabs between Google...