Scott Ferguson

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 […]

Google could be planning to invest as much as an additional $1 billion in India, according to a Bear Stearns research report. The research report, released Aug. 11, claims that the Mountain View, Calif., search engine giant is interested in investing in the city of Hyderabad, one of the largest urban areas in India and […]

On Aug. 12, the IBM PC hits the 25-year mark. The date is significant not because it was the first PC on the market, as there are a number of contenders for that distinction: The Apple 2, the Radio Shack TRS-80, the Commodore 64, and even the MITS Altair 8800 of 1975, among many others, […]

Apple Computer on Aug. 9 issued two security patches for its new Mac Pro, the Intel-based desktop that had just been unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The two patches fix two serious code execution vulnerabilities in the Mac Pro. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker issued the security update for the Mac […]

A new study confirms that the market for wireless-connected PDAs is growing, while the traditional handheld market continues its steady decline. The study, by analyst firm Gartner, of Stamford, Conn., concluded that worldwide market for PDAs grew about 2.7 percent from the second quarter of 2005 to the second quarter of this year. Overall, there […]

Although industry watchers have speculated for months about new video iPods and the possibility that the company may offer movie rentals, Apple CEO Steven Jobs left the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco without mentioning either. During his talk, Jobs focused instead on the refreshed Macintosh line and the anticipation of the […]

Virtual machine developer VMware will unveil software on Aug. 7 that will allow Intel-based Macintosh computers to run x86 operating systems. The announcement, first reported on Aug. 4, will take place during the first day of Apples Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. /zimages/1/128936.gifVMware President Diane Greene talks about the companys announcement to offer a […]

A pair of Maryland men have been charged with taking the laptop computer that contained the personal information of millions of veterans and active duty military personnel, authorities said. While the two men have been charged with stealing the laptop from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee on May 3, it did […]

Quark is making QuarkXPress 7, its desktop-publishing package, available as a universal application for the Mac OS x 10.4 Tiger. The QuarkXPress 7.01 update is available at no cost for Macintosh users of QuarkXPress 7.0. The Denver, Colo., company said the update is available as of Aug. 7. QuarkXPress can run on both Intel-based and […]