Category Archives: Computer

States working harder to collect online sales taxes

By doris | Published: September 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com It’s too early to know exactly how much the Nebraska chapter of the March of Dimes raised this week at its annual Signature Chefs Auction in Omaha, but odds are that more than 10 percent of the charity’s proceeds are going straight to the tax man. That’s because the March of [...]

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Former IBM exec Moffat gets six months in jail

By doris | Published: September 14, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Former IBM executive Robert Moffat was sentenced on Monday to six months in a federal prison for insider trading. Moffat, once the senior vice president of IBM’s (IBM, Fortune 500) systems and technology group and a potential successor to CEO Sam Palmisano, pleaded guilty in March to [...]

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CEOs lay off thousands, rake in millions

By doris | Published: September 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com When Hewlett-Packard’s Chief Executive Mark Hurd resigned last month he received something few regular workers see when they quit their jobs under a cloud: A massive payout. Turns out Hurd is far from the only top executive to be rewarded with a rich package despite a management performance that could be [...]

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Microsoft to investigate child labor accusations

By doris | Published: April 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SEATTLE – Microsoft says it will investigate reports of poor working conditions at a factory in southern China that makes some of its products. A nonprofit that looks into the treatment of foreign workers by U.S. companies published a report Tuesday detailing long working hours, low pay, insufficient food and few [...]

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A telecommuting pioneer’s call center revolution

By doris | Published: February 24, 2010

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com (CNNMoney.com) — When Jim Ball ran a traditional call center in Golden, Colo., in the late 1990s, employee turnover was rampant. Often, Ball was forced to hire just about anyone who walked in the door because few people were willing to commute to the call center and sit in a sterile cubicle [...]

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Barbie’s latest career: computer engineer

By doris | Published: February 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – Hard-working Barbie is adding two more careers to her long resume — news anchor and computer engineer. The two new ventures for the world’s most popular fashion doll were chosen for the first time by the public, who cast more than 500,000 votes to select Barbie’s 125th and [...]

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Concessions From Google on Digital Books

By doris | Published: November 15, 2009

Full Story at  CBS News.com (AP) Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement that addresses objections of antitrust regulators. The offer comes two months after the U.S. Justice Department balked at Google’s original agreement with authors [...]

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Google to buy mobile ad provider

By doris | Published: November 10, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google said Monday that it plans to pay $750 million in stock for AdMob, a company that provides display advertising technology for mobile Internet sites. The search giant said the acquisition will help the company’s advertising partners improve how they target mobile Web users, as well as [...]

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Windows 7 student upgrade hell

By doris | Published: October 25, 2009

Full Story at brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com College students who took advantage of a “deal too sweet to pass up” have run into a bit of trouble. The $29 electronic version of Windows 7 Home Edition sold for Microsoft (MSFT) through Digital River (DRIV) doesn’t seem to install properly on some 32-bit Vista machines. Apparently the download files [...]

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Microsoft wows the Street

By doris | Published: October 24, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft Corp.’s stock soared early Friday after the software giant reported quarterly sales and profit that fell from year-ago results but easily beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Shares of Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) rose more than 10% in early trading. It surged as high as $29.35 at the open, [...]

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Dell to lay off 905 in plant closure

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Computer maker Dell announced on Wednesday that it will close a plant in Winston-Salem, N.C., and will cut 905 jobs as a result. Dell said that 600 plant workers will be laid off in November, and the remaining 305 employees will be cut by January 2010, when [...]

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US regulators propose ban on ‘flash’ trading

By doris | Published: September 18, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators proposed Thursday a ban on flash orders that stock exchanges send to a select group of traders, fractions of a second before revealing them publicly. The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to end the practice criticized for giving an unfair advantage to some market [...]

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Big antitrust issues dog Yahoo-Microsoft deal

By doris | Published: August 24, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. hope that by joining forces, they can tilt the balance of power in Internet search away from Google Inc. First, however, Yahoo and Microsoft have to convince regulators that their plan won’t hurt online advertisers and consumers. As the U.S. Justice Department reviews the [...]

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Bing vs. Google: Consumers Can’t Tell a Difference

By doris | Published: July 12, 2009

Full Story at Bing vs. Google: Consumers Can’t Tell a Difference (alleyinsider.com) — We consumers seem to becoming pawns in the power struggle between internet behemoths Google and Microsoft. To Google, we are “products” to be sold to highest bidding advertiser and to Microsoft we have been reduced largely to a software license. The battle [...]

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