Monthly Archives: December 2007
Family Crisis Forces Red Hat CEO to Resign
In a move that caught even Red Hat senior staffers by surprise, the Linux company announced on Dec. 20 that long-time president and CEO...
Senators Push FCC on White Space Spectrum
Five U.S. senators urged the Federal Communications Commission Dec. 20 to approve the unlicensed use of the interference buffer spectrum—known as white space—between television...
Shocker: Viacom Picks Microsoft Over Google
Microsoft has landed Viacom as a major online ad customer for its Atlas AdManager platform in the United States and managed to license the...
Customers Compile Wish List for Google Apps
Google Apps Premier Edition is not even a year old, but the enterprise flavor of the company's collaboration software suite is getting some rave...
IBM: Services and Verticals Will Help Us Beat Rivals in 2008
IBM is betting that its global services and verticals strategy will propel it past rivals Dell and Hewlett-Packard, whom it says remain mired in...
FTC Releases Behavioral Advertising Guidelines
Although the Federal Trade Commission did not discuss privacy issues in its approval of the $3.1 billion Google-DoubleClick merger, the agency still has plenty...
SpringSource Release Train Chugs Along
With Christmas right around the corner, SpringSource is planning to give its users a shiny new train. It may not arrive in time for...
How to Develop a Risk Management Strategy
IT risk management is as an enterprise-wide approach to refining people, processes and systems to achieve the organization's preferred balance of IT costs and...
Giancarlo to Leave Cisco, Join Investment Firm
Cisco Systems on Dec. 19 announced that its chief development officer, Charlie Giancarlo, will step down to become a managing director in private equity...
Acer Eyes the SMB Market
Acer, which has been focusing on the consumer market and fighting for space in retail stores, is turning its attention back to the North...