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• Entellium's lost millions

  Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE ...

  Tags: Entellium, Dennis Howlett, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Finance, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Board, Business Operations

  Oct 10, 2008 7:54 PM PDT

• Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites

  Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Recession, Video, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Seesmic

  Oct 10, 2008 7:37 PM PDT

• Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

  Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and ...

  Tags: Apple Inc., GeForce 8600M GT, Apple MacBook, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple MacBook Pro, NVidia Corp., Jason D. O\'Grady

  Oct 10, 2008 4:17 PM PDT

• Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions

  I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the ...

  Tags: Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Peripherals, Finance, Printing, Printers, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Green Technology, Software

  Oct 10, 2008 3:00 PM PDT

• Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform

  It's been tricky keeping separate all of the "layers" in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. But now Live Services is a ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Web, Microsoft Corp., Live Platform, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

  Oct 10, 2008 2:40 PM PDT

• Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ?89

  Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak ?..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked ...

  Tags: Finance, Recession, Joshua Greenbaum, Stock, Tech Stock, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Investment

  Oct 10, 2008 1:46 PM PDT

• Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week

  It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Application Servers, .Net, Software Development, Enterprise Software, RSS, Apple Mac OS, Middleware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp.

  Oct 10, 2008 1:06 PM PDT

• My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

  Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Verizon Communications Inc., Consumer Electronics, Fee, Text Messaging, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS

  Oct 10, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

• Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

  I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Tablet PC, Notebooks & Tablets

  Oct 10, 2008 11:38 AM PDT

• Are there really 750 million mentally ill?

  Chan said "these are not insurmountable problems" and "the way forward is bright and solidly paved." A "scaling up" of the professions will cost just 20 cents per person per ...

  Tags: Depression, Worker, Dana Blankenhorn

  Oct 10, 2008 11:13 AM PDT

• Making the giant health database work for you

  It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work ...

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Storage, Human Resources, Healthcare, Health Care, Databases

  Oct 10, 2008 10:27 AM PDT

• Are there really too many Windows editions?

  Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Edition, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 10, 2008 10:23 AM PDT

• NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

  Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. ...

  Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

  Oct 10, 2008 10:22 AM PDT

• Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro

  Apple has now joined the ranks of Dell and HP and admitted that some if its MacBook Pro notebooks have been shipped with defective NVIDIA GPUs. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple MacBook Pro, NVidia Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 10, 2008 10:18 AM PDT

• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

  We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Oct 10, 2008 9:59 AM PDT

• A robot to destroy breast cancer cells

  Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, ...

  Tags: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Roland Piquepaille, Rod, Emerging Technologies, Breast Cancer, Cell, Robots

  Oct 10, 2008 9:57 AM PDT

• US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures

  The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and ...

  Tags: ICANN, Richard Koman, Networking, Internet, Security, Digital Signatures, Digital Signature, Authentication/Encryption, DNS, Domain Names

  Oct 10, 2008 9:45 AM PDT

• Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it

  There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright ...

  Tags: President, Network Technology, Richard Koman, Justice Dept, Networking, IP, Bill

  Oct 10, 2008 9:35 AM PDT

• Apple kicks off Ultracompact USB adapter exchange program

  Back in September Apple announced a recall of the Ultracompact USB power adapter for the iPhone 3G following claims that the metal prongs might break off in the power outlet ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Swap, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 10, 2008 9:13 AM PDT

• America's airways ready for NextGen

  It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction ...

  Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Richard Koman, Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gas, Air Traffic Control, FAA

  Oct 10, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

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