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Microsofts conversion in the past year to embrace security as a corporate mission is cause for a shout of hallelujah—almost. The Secure Windows Initiative was launched a year ago, but the turning point came in January, when Bill Gates issued a memo exhorting employees to put security ahead of all else, including functionality. Last month, […]

The shadow of the Enron Corp. scandal could fall on Hewlett-Packard Co. when HP defends its proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. in court next week. The Enron failure has been blamed largely on mismanagement by corporate executives. As a result, courts may give more weight to claims brought by shareholders against company leaders than […]

Intel Corp. has agreed to pay $300 million to Intergraph Corp. to settle an Alabama patent infringement suit involving its Pentium microprocessors, and up to $250 million more if it loses a related case in Texas involving its Itanium chip. The settlement, under which Intel admits no guilt, was announced Monday by both companies and […]

Two federal agencies have launched investigations into whether Hewlett-Packard Co. coerced two major shareholders to vote in favor of its proposed $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. The probes, confirmed by HP today, come on the heels of a lawsuit filed by Walter Hewlett that accuses the company of threatening to withhold business from […]

Hitachi Ltd. and its Hitachi Data Systems division are infringing on EMC technology in several of their products, according to claims EMC filed in court Thursday and Friday. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., wants the courts to issue an injunction preventing Hitachi from selling several of its products in the United States. The technologies that Hitachi, […]

A senior executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday denounced accusations that the company coerced investors to support its buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. as “insulting and infuriating” and expressed dismay that a voicemail message left for him by HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina was leaked to a newspaper. Bob Wayman, HPs chief financial officer […]

Last fall, Iron Mountain Inc., a 51-year-old document archiving company, made a jump into digital world with its Digital Archives outsourced product. Now the Boston company is looking to shore up its nascent digital presence, with plans to bring customers existing backup servers into its data centers, archive wireless messaging, and archive audio and video […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Self-configuring, self-managing data centers that use industry standards to oversee products from different vendors are still years away from reality, according to many of the 140 top researchers and IT vendor representatives gathered this week by IBM to generate support for its so-called autonomic computing initiative. Researchers from leading vendors such as IBM […]

Prior to a crucial shareholder vote last month, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Carly Fiorina left a message telling her chief financial officer that they may need to “do something extraordinary” to persuade two major investors, including Deutsche Bank, to vote in favor of the companys buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., according to a newspaper report. While […]

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A resume is not a computer program. Its not data that gets crunched and delivers a 0-vs.-1 binary resolution. Its a document that needs to communicate an IT professionals skills and experience. That sounds obvious, but ask any IT recruiter about the resumes that pass across his or her desk every day, and youd be […]

In 1865, the English Parliament passed the so-called Red Flag Law, requiring that self-propelled vehicles on public highways be limited to a maximum speed of 4 miles per hour and be preceded by a man carrying a red flag. The law remained on the books for 31 years, sapping consumer interest in cars and irreparably […]