Scott Ferguson

Apple is recalling 1.8 million notebook battery packs, which contain cells manufactured by Sony. The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker is recalling the packs, shipped with certain of its 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch and 15-inch PowerBook G4 notebooks and also sold as extras and replacements, citing a fire hazard. The Aug. 24 Apple recall—which affects only […]

IBM announced on Aug. 23 that it is acquiring Internet Security Systems, a maker of network security and appliances, for $1.3 billion, or $28 per share. The purchase of ISS, the fifth largest in IBMs history, is the fourth acquisition for Big Blue since the start of August. In less than four weeks, the Armonk, […]

Salesforce.com, the San Francisco-based CRM software specialist, announced Aug. 22 that it has partnered with Google AdWords to form an on-demand service that will allow companies to measure search engine marketing campaigns. The new service, dubbed Salesforce for Google AdWords, will allow companies to create, manage and measure the value of a search engine marketing […]

In the latest episode of stolen computers and compromised personal records, Hospital Corporation of America reported on Aug. 18 that 10 computers had been stolen from one of the health care providers regional offices. The computers “held thousands of files listing unpaid bills from Medicare and Medicaid patients” who had treatment at hospitals managed by […]

Maureen Govern, chief technology officer at AOL, resigned from the company on Aug. 21, following a disclosure that AOL accidentally released keyword search data for roughly 658,000 anonymous users. Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for the data release, will be replaced by John McKinley, who had previously held the job, according to an internal […]

Apple Computer on Aug. 17 issued a security patch for its Xsan Filesystem 1.4 to patch a serious code execution flaw in the file system software for the companys storage area network product. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker issued the security update for the Mac OS X v10.4.7 and the Mac OS X Server v10.4.7. […]

Lenovo Group, the worlds third-largest computer maker, has plucked two more executives away from Dell as part of a move to strengthen its Asian operations. David D. Miller, 42, will join Lenovo on Aug. 17, just a day after he left Dell, as president of Lenovos Asia Pacific division. Miller will also hold the title […]

Nearly 60 percent of CIOs anticipate increasing their software spending through the rest of 2006, while only 33 percent expect spending to remain flat and 2 percent expect a decrease in spending. Those are the results of a new survey by Merrill Lynch analysts, who released their results on Aug. 16 in a report called […]

Apple Computer has released an updated beta version of its Boot Camp software, which allows Intel-based Macs to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. The new version, Boot Camp 1.1 beta, was made available on the Apple Web site on Aug. 15. The company first began offering a public version of the software […]

With the release of its updated PeopleSoft CRM application, announced Aug. 14, Oracle is continuing to show that it will support applications and other products from PeopleSoft and other companies it has acquired during the last several years. Oracle purchased PeopleSoft in 2004. Since then, the company has tried to eliminate fears that it would […]