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HP silent on Aussie job cuts
Hewlett-Packard today said it was "too early" to comment on whether Australian job cuts would result from the US$13.9 billion acquisition of EDS or even which executive would lead the combined entity locally in the immediate future. Read more »
Flickr founder knocks Yahoo
During a visit to Australia this week, Flickr founder and former Yahoo staffer Stewart Butterfield criticised the search giant for its lack of an innovative culture compared to rival Google. Read more »
Microsoft in talks over AOL merger
Microsoft is in discussions with Time Warner over how to combine Microsoft and AOL's online groups, The Wall Street Journal has claimed. Read more »
FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Read more »
Mobile Linux standards rocked by merger
The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. Read more »
How do you get bought out by Google?
Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions. Read more »
Microsoft makes Yahoo a new offer
Microsoft announced on Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for a transaction with the company but would not involve the acquisition of all of its assets. Read more »
Bill Gates: We're not looking for another Yahoo
With its multibillion-dollar Yahoo merger bid yanked from the table, the Microsoft chairman said at a Tokyo press conference on Wednesday that the software giant has no immediate plans to jump on another deal. Read more »
Oracle-BEA takeover comes to a close
Oracle announced Tuesday it completed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems, bringing to a close a contentious buyout effort that began last spring. Read more »
Yahoo-Microsoft to hitch this week say analysts
As Yahoo gears up to report its first quarter performance next week, one analyst predicts the Internet search pioneer may clock in at the lower end of its revenue range, while other analysts predict a buyout deal with Microsoft may be in the mix this week. Read more »
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10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT
As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. Read more »
Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople
Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »
It's 9:00am: Do you know where your people are?
Today's workforce is located everywhere. This geographic dispersion of workers presents some interesting management challenges-especially for the IT manager. Read more »
Open source's integration problem
Sometimes it takes Microsoft to notify the open source community that for all the great things we've done, we sometimes fall short. One area that open source had traditionally failed in was in stitching together an end-to-end solution... Read more »
Building Java apps with Maven
Maven is more than just a build tool. Used properly, it can help manage your projects and aid deployment. We'll show you how Read more »
Model-Driven Development today
Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »
The beginning of the end of Java as we know it?
Though the two companies appear to be cooperating more, especially in the area of Web services, the desires of IBM and Microsoft to vanquish one another should not be underestimated. Read more »
Top 14 development integration trends for 2004
Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. Read more »
Protect your resume from previous employers going belly up
If your employment history is filled with defunct companies and long gone references, your resume could be hurting your job search efforts. Here's how to present this type of work history. Read more »
Use application architecture to reduce redundancy
A reader expresses his frustration after discovering that an application he is working on has already been developed in another sector of his company. Tom Mochal offers keys to avoiding redundancy. Read more »
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Is software consolidation killing innovation?
At San Francisco's Churchill Club, moderator Dave Margulius talks to panelists Douglas Merrill, vice president of engineering at Google, and CIOs David Bergen of Levi Strauss, Doug Schwinn of Hasbro and Randall Spratt of McKesson. The chief information officers debate the pros and cons of software industry consolidation and discuss whether these large mergers are beneficial or preventing innovation. Read more »
Blog (6)
Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?
-- Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies. Read more »
In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?
-- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! Read more »
Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled
-- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »
Mapping the path to developer peace of mind
-- Mapping is one thing... as long as the owners of its contributing APIs do not change the terms in their licence Read more »
Service Pack or Market Attack?
-- I will give it to Microsoft. When they want to capture a particular market, they go hard or not at all. And with SQL Server 2005, they have their sights set firmly on the Business Intelligence market. And their strategy makes sense—they are moving to become the "one stop shop" for database servers, data management tools, reporting and analysis, eliminating the need to spend more money on third-party tools. Read more »
Getting on the Beta Bandwagon
-- While a lot of us today seem to be too busy to stop and think about the next version of technology X, there's still a lot of developers who are keen to get involved in beta programs, and Adobe is doing something to make that easier. Read more »
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Making the new Firefox Beta even fasterMozilla fans can now play with the anticipated speedier JavaScript engine in the first beta for Firefox 3.1, as well as explore improvements to the Smart Location Bar and a slick interface for hotkey tab switchi Read more »
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XP stays on life support for longerThis week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »
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The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computersEver wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »
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CSI Tracing, Ballmer hunting and Bobcats -- Club Builder
In this week's Club Builder: Gary Sinise shows how to trace IPs in VB, Microsoft attempts to kill off XP again, Google tries to prevent drunk emails, and we see how to properly spend $1800.
