Friday, December 21, 2007

Latest News
Charles Giancarlo, who was seen as a likely candidate to head Cisco Systems, has resigned from the networking giant after 14 years to "pursue new professional opportunities," Cisco announced Thursday. 20-Dec-2007

Longtime Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik is being replaced, the company announced on the same day it posted a quarterly revenue gain of 28 percent. 20-Dec-2007

Cisco Systems Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President Charles Giancarlo has resigned, the company announced today. 20-Dec-2007

Small businesses have joined huge players like Google and AT&T in submitting applications to bid in the FCC's wireless spectrum auction. 20-Dec-2007

Apple's iPod Touch uses advanced components that put it technologically beyond the iPhone. 20-Dec-2007

The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child Project struggles with slow orders and competition from commercial vendors. 20-Dec-2007

NetSuite set the initial price of its stock at $26, exceeding its original estimate of $13 to $16 per share. 20-Dec-2007

Analysts predict a new and improved Apple iPhone as soon as mid-next year. 20-Dec-2007

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1 to approve the Google acquisition of online ad vendor DoubleClick. 20-Dec-2007

Sony will sell a special edition of its PlayStation 3 in Japan to mark the launch of the Devil May Cry 4 game. 20-Dec-2007

Yahoo and America Movil have formed a partnership to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. 20-Dec-2007

Microsoft has a technical work-around for users who found IE crashing after recent security update. 20-Dec-2007

British motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving face stiff fines, jail time. 20-Dec-2007

Rumor site Think Secret is ceasing publication as part of a settlement reached in Apple lawsuit. 20-Dec-2007

Gartner forecasts chip equipment spending of $40.3 billion in 2008, down by almost 10 percent from an estimated $44.8 billion this year. 20-Dec-2007

Intel's venture-capital arm has invested in Nirvanix, which offers a scalable online storage service. 20-Dec-2007

One-Laptop-Per-Child's XO has inspired a new class of low-cost laptop and highlighted the need for computing resources in developing nations. 20-Dec-2007

Millions of Muslims in Mecca for the Hajj can stay connected thanks to free Wi-Fi covering much of the city. 20-Dec-2007

A software update for MacBook and MacBook Pros addresses an issue that caused the keyboard to freeze. 20-Dec-2007

Strong Q2 software sales pushed Oracle's total revenue up 28 percent to $5.3 billion. 20-Dec-2007

A new Trojan horse modifies infected PC's hosts file to replace Google text ads with ads from another source. 20-Dec-2007