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A California appeals court has upheld Microsofts $1.1 billion class action settlement, turning away a lingering claim over the terms of the historic payout. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that a claim brought by California resident Charles Jakob had no merit, reaffirming that the terms of Microsofts 2003 class action settlement were fair, […]

The problem of chip-set sales haunted Intel in the fourth quarter. As a result, it reported quarterly revenue of $10.2 billion, below most analysts expectations of revenue of $10.5 billion. Despite putting out record shipments of desktop, notebook and server processors during the fourth quarter, the chip maker said supply problems, something it grappled with […]

Novell is restructuring its corporate licensing framework to make license agreements more flexible and accessible to users. Beginning March 1, the Linux software company will no longer force users into CLAs (contract license agreements), which attached service and maintenance agreements to the software deal. Customers may now purchase VLAs (volume license agreements), which are purely […]

Electronic Data Systems pioneered the outsourcing industry, but fell on hard times several years ago after signing several major, ill-conceived deals, such as the giant Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project. The reversal led big IT customers and the investment community to become wary of the companys prospects. To turn the company around, EDS Michael Jordan came […]

FastTrack Tames PM Complexities Companies looking for an alternative to Microsofts Project or a way to bring Mac OS users into a Project environment will find AEC Softwares FastTrack Schedule 9 a cost-effective and well-designed option. I like the way FastTrack Schedule makes project management more approachable for users who arent skilled in that art, […]

Sony Corp. aims to take a chunk out of Dell Inc.s market share and boost channel presence by offering customers $500 trade-ins rebates on Dell notebooks and additional funds for resellers. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor is offering Go Pro 2, a $500 rebate on its VAIO Professional BX line of notebooks for Dell notebook […]

/zimages/6/124928.jpgThe update to the GNU General Public License 2.0, which was some five years in the making, was released this week for a year of public commentary. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the current license, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli at the Massachusetts Institute of […]

Cisco Systems Inc.s senior vice president of data center, switching, security technology and application networking services, Jayshree Ullal, has seen a quick succession of new responsibilities added to her plate in the last six months. The 11-year Cisco veteran (22 years in the networking industry) last July took on data center and switching responsibilities when […]

A Web-based e-mail client, tentatively called Office Live Mail, could be a key piece of Microsofts forthcoming Office Live software-as-a-service offering, according to a published report. A posting on the LiveSide blog—an independent site run by a number of Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, among others, that is dedicated to tracking Microsofts Live efforts—describes the alleged […]

Microsoft is making development progress with its next-generation Windows programming technologies, and is encouraging developers to kick the tires on some of its core components months before they are set to ship. On Wednesday, Microsoft made available for public download on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site the January Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Lew Tucker, vice president of AppExchange at Salesforce.com Inc., spent a few good and formative years at Sun Microsystems Inc. developing Java as a technology. Always with the vision of on-demand development capabilities, but never quite the opportunity to get there with Sun, Tucker took a position at Salesforce.com to run the companys corporate […]

NEW YORK—RFID promises retailers more efficient inventory plans and streamlined supply chains in the near future, but for now it delivers only to the largest and most daring of them. The technology remains the domain of the largest businesses, those with the means to invest in its deployment and wait for its return, said vendors […]