Monthly Archives: October 2008
IBM, Financial Flutters and Tech Workers
First off, let's raise a glass to IBM. Good old, boring IBM is just what the tech industry, and probably the economy at large,...
Venture Capital Firm Warns Startups of Impending Credit Crunch Effects
Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, known for backing IT mega-hits such as Google, Apple and YouTube, Oct. 9 became one of the first VC...
Oracle Springs for Primavera to Better Compete with HP, IBM in PPM
Oracle Oct. 8 agreed to buy project portfolio management specialist Primavera Software, adding another notch in the company's steadily growing enterprise applications belt.Financial details...
Government Report: Evidence of H-1B Visa Fraud
H-1B visa holders and the companies that use them are bound to be in for more scrutiny after a recent report examining fraud in...
Unified Communications on the Cheap
With the economic downturn (to put it mildly), IT organizations are looking to reduce their capital expenditures while implementing technologies that increase organizational productivity....
iSuppli Cuts Chip Revenue Forecast, Citing DRAM Prices, Financial Crisis
While worldwide semiconductor revenue is still expected to top $280 billion this year, the ongoing financial crisis on Wall Street and falling prices for...
Smart Phones and Mobile Devices in the Office: Who’s Using, Who’s Paying?
Who's Using What?Information workers: Sales, IT, managers and others use information applications to deliver real-time data as well as the plethora of e-mail, calendar...
Symantec, Google Spotlight SAAS Security
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison roiled the waves recently when he mocked Web-based computing, but software as a service is doing just fine, as new...
IT Security’s 2008 Acquisition Spree
The downturn in the financial markets, a pending recession and tight credit have done little to impede the appetite of security vendors to acquire...
Will Google’s Android Be the Tipping Point for Smart Phones?
ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden in a new research note said he wondered whether Google's Android mobile operating system will be the tipping point...