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Red Hat? More like red hot

Posted March 30, 2012 - 2:30 pm

Shares of open source software and services vendor Red Hat are at a 12-year high following a strong fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Tech stocks party like it's 1999

Posted December 9, 2011 - 6:25 pm

Tech investors get an early holiday present on Friday as shares of Internet, software and mobile companies post gains.
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IBM shares drop 4% after Q3 revenue fails to impress Wall Street

Posted October 17, 2011 - 8:58 pm

IBM raised its earnings forecast for the fiscal year, but investors sent shares down on concerns about slowing revenue growth.
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Siri is set to answer a lot of dumb questions

Posted October 12, 2011 - 10:21 am

Some of the early reviews are coming out on the iPhone 4S and the coolest feature, the Siri personal assistant. Of course, people are trying to show either how "cool" the feature is, or they're just trying to come up with the weirdest or dumbest questions to ask
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Update: HP to kill off WebOS, confirms it's trying to dump PC business, and may buy Autonomy

Posted August 18, 2011 - 1:48 pm

Hewlett-Packard, long known for being the world's largest maker of computers, plans to spin off its PC business, according to sources cited by Bloomberg.
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Muglia lands at Juniper

Posted July 26, 2011 - 12:27 pm

Network product and services company becoming a haven for former Microsoft executives.
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Microsoft shares up on ... talk of Ballmer's ouster?

Posted May 26, 2011 - 8:12 pm

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn's call for the dismissal of CEO Steve Ballmer stirs Microsoft's stock.
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Microsoft to cease making Zune players, plan to crush iPod on hold

Posted March 14, 2011 - 7:12 pm

Chief executive Steve Ballmer once had dreams of Zune winning the media player war against Apple's iPod. If you count 2 percent market share as winning, mission accomplished!
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Apotheker puts the hurt on Hurd (indirectly, anyway)

Posted March 9, 2011 - 6:56 pm

He doesn't come right out and say it, but Leo Apotheker thinks former Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd left him a fine mess to clean up.
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Microsoft shares down on lower fiscal Q2 profit

Posted January 27, 2011 - 6:15 pm

Shares of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) were down slightly in after-hours trading Thursday after the software giant reported a decline in fiscal second-quarter profit.
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Adobe Systems beats Q4 estimates; shares rise

Posted December 20, 2010 - 7:22 pm

Shares of Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) rose in after-hours trading Monday after the software maker reported its first quarter with revenue topping $1 billion. Adobe's stock reached as high as 31.70, or 8.6 percent above Monday's regular-session closing price of 29.18.
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'Free' may do more for cloud than VMware, Microsoft or Amazon ever did

Posted November 11, 2010 - 6:17 pm

Open-source version of Rackspace's OpenStack cloud platform may make core functions common enough to help standardize the excessively heterogeneous cloud market.
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Microsoft shares jump after Q1 earnings report

Posted October 28, 2010 - 8:01 pm

Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) jumped nearly 3.5 percent to 27.19 in after-hours trading Thursday following the software giant's fiscal first-quarter 2011 earnings, which showed a healthy 52 percent gain in net income.
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IBM stock hits all-time high

Posted October 11, 2010 - 4:54 pm

Shares of technology giant IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reached an all-time high in mid-afternoon trading Monday before falling off slightly. IBM shares got as high as $139.94 around 2:30 p.m. before settling back to 139.66 at market's close. IBM ended the day up 81 cents, or 0.58 percent, from Friday's closing price of 138.85.
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Adobe Systems Q3 earnings soar, but shares drop on revenue forecast

Posted September 21, 2010 - 5:59 pm

Well, that celebration was short-lived. Adobe Systems Inc., maker of desktop, server and multimedia software, announced after Tuesday's market close a 69 percent increase in third-quarter net income.
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Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Door Open for Software Patents

Posted June 28, 2010 - 11:22 am

While the US Supreme Court upheld the rejection of the business method patent in Bilski v. Kappos, it held short of classifying any business method as unpatentable. In fact, it ruled that the machine-or-transformation test so often used for patent eligibility was no longer effective as sole test in the Information Age.
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Bilski Delay May Not Portend Bad News

Posted June 21, 2010 - 10:57 am

No Bilski decision handed down today, again. Does it reflect on the outcome in any way?
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Some thoughts about SaaS and cloud computing

Posted May 24, 2010 - 11:09 am

Why would you ever have your own data center? Why would you ever have on hand database specialists? Network specialists? Security specialists? Programmers? Why would you ever have a mail server anywhere near your coffee maker? Why would you ever have a SAN? Because, until recently, there was no realistic way to have it somewhere else.
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How to ease the transition to Office 2007

Posted December 18, 2008 - 10:30 pm

The transition to Office 2007 is a major hurdle for many organizations due to the total interface overhail introduced by Microsoft. With no legacy interface option available in the product, users often face the product with big questions. Addintools.com has created a product called Classic Menu for Office 2007 that remedies this situation.
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Reason Behind Vulnerabilities

Posted September 8, 2008 - 3:54 pm

Now something completely unrelated to VoIP: Reason behind all vulnerabilities in software! I read an article that explained how vulnerabilities are basically created by the fact that people tend to drift from good development principles into practices that are just simply Fun. The engineers among us know that software development can be enormously interesting, something you would happily even do in your leisure time. But can fun be converted into reliable software?
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