Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal computers, digital cameras and music players, an industry group said on Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Wal-Mart fires systems technician for recording of phone conversations and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Speech coding technology used in several Microsoft Corp. applications does not infringe on an Alcatel-Lucent SA patent, a federal judge decided Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 05, 2007
Sanyo Electric Co. defended laptop computer batteries that it made and were subject to a worldwide recall on Friday, saying the problem resulted from strong external impact to the battery and was not a problem with the batteries "themselves."
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007
AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, is hiring International Business Machines Corp. to perform some of its personnel chores in a $217 million deal that will run for 7 1/2 years, the companies said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007
A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007
Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007
Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
Computer maker Lenovo Inc. on Thursday recalled about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries used in ThinkPad laptops after receiving four reports of the Sanyo-built batteries overheating.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
The work force at International Business Machines Corp. grew 8 percent in 2006, with most of the rise coming in India, where the technology company has been on a hiring binge in recent years.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. on Thursday with fines as high as $4 million a day, claiming the software company was still not offering a fair deal to rivals seeking to make their products more compatible with Windows.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
Microsoft is asking rivals to pay too much for information that can help software interoperate, claims European Union commissioner.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
Google's cash cow search engine -- Google Search -- continued to pull ahead of all competitors in usage growth in the U.S. during January, and managed a whopping 40.6 percent year over year growth rate, according to two recent surveys.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 01, 2007
Microsoft drives up support for Network Access Protection technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 01, 2007