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Some H&R Block customers who received free copies of the companys TaxCut software also had their Social Security numbers exposed, according to a company spokesperson. H&R Block sent a letter to customers late last month saying that a tracking number used on packages containing TaxCut contained the customers SSN as part of a unique, 47-digit […]

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued the momentum generated by Opteron and Athlon 64 into 2005, particularly by beating rival Intel Corp. in releasing dual-core processors. Company officials expect to continue that push that technological advantage into 2006. AMDs president and COO of microprocessing, Dirk Meyer, recently spoke with eWEEK News Editor Dennis Fisher […]

/zimages/3/123060.jpgIBMs Venture Capital Group maintains contacts around the world looking for companies with new ideas and technologies that complement IBMs product line and service offerings. But IBM isnt in the business of investing cash in high-tech startups for research and development. Instead IBM acts as the ultimate “rainmaker” that can bring startups together with customers, […]

Microsoft didnt show off many new Windows Vista bells and whistles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. But company officials did drop hints about some of the new Windows Live add-on services in the Redmond pipeline. Windows Live is the brand name for the growing family of services, many of which […]

In his Dec. 5 column, “IT Work Force Gap Looming,” Stan Gibson [quoted a Forrester analyst as saying], “One utility company has 460 vacancies they cant fill.” Why cant the company fill the 460 jobs? Is it because:• It had a hiring freeze for several years?• It had massive layoffs or downsizing or did outsourcing […]

In the wake of hurricanes Rita and Katrina last year, CompuCom Systems found that many of its customers were struggling, in some cases, to stay in business. One new customer, however, was struggling to keep thousands of other people alive and realized it needed high-powered technology to help make that possible. That customer was Houston-based […]

Motorola last month appointed networking industry veteran Tom Mader as corporate vice president and general manager of the companys Wireline Networks division. Mader will be responsible for FTTP (fiber to the premises) and FTTN (fiber to the node) technologies, including the deployment of next-generation entertainment services such as IPTV, video on demand and digital recording, […]

Arel Plug-In Allows Meetings Anywhere Arel Communications and Softwares well-designed videoconferencing and audio conferencing technology has been part of an integrated Web conferencing tool, Arel Spotlight. Now the company is making the video and audio service more broadly available through a plug-in architecture called Arel Anywhere. I looked at Arel Anywhere in an unlikely place—embedded […]

Can the feud between Microsoft and Google grow any hotter? You bet. Heading into the close of the year, the pair volleyed for some gain in industry mind share, and, by all accounts, the Mountain View team looks to have scored some points. The big knock to Microsofts pride came with the announcement that Google […]

Despite some challenges in 2005, Kevin Rollins, president and CEO of Dell Inc., of Round Rock, Texas, insists the companys business model is strong and sees no significant changes to it in the year ahead. Rollins recently spoke with eWEEK News Editor Dennis Fisher, Senior Editor Jeffrey Burt and Senior Writer Brian Fonseca about such […]

I read with great interest your editorial “Fighting Cyber-Crime” (Dec. 12). I found this statement particularly poignant: “Theres still a lingering tendency to distinguish things in cyberspace from the same things in more familiar environments.” With a new generation of surgically precise attacks against specific companies, cyber-criminals are causing more damage in destroyed or stolen […]

Interwoven has appointed Bill Seawick to its executive management team as the enterprise content management companys senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Seawick joins Interwoven from Trados, where he served as the companys chief marketing officer. At Trados, Seawick guided the organizations shift from a language technology provider to a global information management vendor. […]