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BusinessWeek: Elliott Said to Plan Sale of Novell Business If Offer Succeeds
Elliott Associates LP, the fund manager that made an unsolicited $2 billion offer for Novell Inc., would sell the NetWare networking-software unit if its bid succeeds, a person familiar with the matter said.
BusinessWeek: MTN Profit Falls as Rand Gain Hurts Foreign Income (Update2)
MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, said full-year profit fell after South Africa’s rand advanced, reducing income from abroad when converted into the local currency.
Forbes: Computing's Killer Problem
The answer to the thorniest question involving computers is nowhere in sight, despite a $1 million bounty.
BusinessWeek: FTC Said to Ask Google Rivals for Statement on AdMob
U.S. regulators are seeking sworn declarations from Google competitors and advertisers as part of their probe the company’s bid to buy AdMob
BusinessWeek: Google China Resolution is Weeks, Not Months Away
Google Inc., in talks with China after threatening to stop censoring Internet search results there, said the discussions will yield results soon.
BusinessWeek: Telstra’s ‘Too Cheap to Ignore’ Shares Rise in Sydney (Update2)
Telstra Corp., Australia’s largest phone company, rose for a second day in Sydney trading extending gains in the period to the most in nine months after Morgan Stanley analysts said the stock was “too cheap to ignore.”
BusinessWeek: CA Agrees to Buy Nimsoft for $350 Million in Cash (Update3)
CA Inc., the second-largest maker of software for mainframe computers, agreed to buy closely held Nimsoft Inc. for about $350 million to expand in cloud computing.
 The Scotsman: Regenersis' TRS acquisition helps revenues to rise by 16%
A RISING demand for repairs to mobile phones and other electronic gadgets in Scotland is driving strong sales growth at Regenersis, the Aim-listed firm said yesterday.
The Scotsman: Bonus for Wolfson chief despite loss
WOLFSON Microelectronics chief executive Mike Hickey was paid a bonus worth 146,000 for 2009 despite the company falling to its first full-year loss since prior to its 2003 f
The Scotsman: New director joins city's BioQuarter
EDINBURGH BioQuarter, Scotland's flagship research and business park for the life sciences sector, has announced the appointment of a director of commercialisation.
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·Motorola cuts 3,000 jobs and delays spin-off
Motorola is cutting 3,000 jobs and delaying the spin-off of its loss-making mobile phone business after suffering a $397m loss in the third quarter amid a dramatic fall in handset sales
·Chipmaker warns of global sales decline
TSMC chief executive says industry revenues in 2009 will fall by up to 10% in 'an unusually challenging environment' amid the financial crisis
·Netbooks lead computer growth
Despite the downturn in the economy, an unexpected surge in global consumer demand for 'netbooks'or mini-notebooks, has turned them into one of the hottest new consumer-tech products in years
·Mobile makers braced for painful 2009
The world's leading mobile phone makers are braced for a painful 2009 after warnings that sales of handsets could fall sharply for the first time in eight years
·Microsoft looks to cloud to open new windows
If Microsoft fails to lay out a compelling plan for how it will adapt to the new world of internet-based computing, it would add to a nagging concerns that the company is falling behind in the biggest transition to hit information technology in years
·Microsoft results offer hope to tech sector
Microsoft is weathering the economic downturn better than expected, with sales in the three months to the end of September topping Wall Street estimates, according to new figures
·Amazon wins over sceptics about web services
When Amazon Web Services was launched in March 2006, investors thought the hundreds of millions of dollars the retailer was spending to build up its infrastructure and hire engineers were hard to justify. Today the move seems less contentious
·Sony slashes forecast on strong yen
Sony blamed an economic change "defying imagination" as it slashed its profit forecasts, raising fears that it could even slide into losses inthe second half of this year unless the euro recovers against the yen
·Google Russian purchase blocked
Moscow antitrust body steps in to $140m pursuit of Russian advertising business that would have raised search company's profile
·AT&T profits dented by iPhone subsidies
AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group, is paying the price for the success of Apple's 3G iPhone launched on July 11 with a substantial subsidy from its mobile network unit
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·Did J&J Plan to Break Rules?
Its aggressive marketing campaign for Risperdal has caused an explosion of litigation
·FTC Said to Ask Google Rivals for Statement on AdMob
U.S. regulators are seeking sworn declarations from Google competitors and advertisers as part of their probe the company’s bid to buy AdMob
·Google Opens App Store to Attract Developers
Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, opened an online store that helps developers of business software sell their own programs.
·Google China Resolution is Weeks, Not Months Away
Google Inc., in talks with China after threatening to stop censoring Internet search results there, said the discussions will yield results soon.
·Elliott Said to Plan Sale of Novell Business If Offer Succeeds
Elliott Associates LP, the fund manager that made an unsolicited $2 billion offer for Novell Inc., would sell the NetWare networking-software unit if its bid succeeds, a person familiar with the matter said.
·Obama’s $79 Billion Tech Plan May Favor Web Programs (Update1)
Vivek Kundra, the Obama official with $79 billion to spend on technology, said the government can be more efficient by putting programs on the Web, paving the way for companies like Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. to win business.
·MTN Profit Falls as Rand Gain Hurts Foreign Income (Update2)
MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, said full-year profit fell after South Africa’s rand advanced, reducing income from abroad when converted into the local currency.
·Telstra’s ‘Too Cheap to Ignore’ Shares Rise in Sydney (Update2)
Telstra Corp., Australia’s largest phone company, rose for a second day in Sydney trading extending gains in the period to the most in nine months after Morgan Stanley analysts said the stock was “too cheap to ignore.”
·The FCC National Broadband Plan: Long Haul Expected
Parts of the National Broadband Plan, due Mar. 16, are already meeting with opposition and are likely to take many years to put in place
·Web-Connected TV: A Distant Dream for App Makers
Developers who delight in creating software for smartphones say there's little incentive to build apps for TVs, which need too many approvals
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·Android phones, Firefox history, Google Wave and datacentres galore
This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! and other organisations to work on projects to help with disaster relief. See more photos from the hackathon here.
·2010: The year your desktop goes virtual?
Server virtualisation is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the corporate IT infrastructure - and now industry experts are predicting that it won't be long until corporate desktops follow suit. Desktop virtualisation refers to the running of a PC's operating system within a central datacentre. Users have a screen and terminal (or thin client) on their desk, which connects to the operating system running on the serv ...
·Outsourcing: UK carbon control plan needs a rethink
Encouraging businesses to go green is good but the government must better incorporate outsourcing in its carbon control scheme, says the NOA's Mark Kobayashi-Hillary Much is being said about the UK government's upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what impact the scheme will have on the outsourcing and offshoring industries.
·Anti-ageism legislation isn't working, say IT pros
Anti-ageism legislation isn't working and the IT industry continues to discriminate against older techies. That's the verdict of the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. The majority (51 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the IT industry discriminates against older workers, compared with less than a fifth (18 per cent) who held the opposite view.
·Leaked report reveals billions in budget cuts for public sector IT
Shared services delivered through the cloud will help the public sector shave billions from its annual IT spend, according to a leaked Whitehall report. The leaked draft document, Government ICT Strategy: New world, new challenges, new opportunities, sets out priorities for public sector IT chiefs through to 2020.
·Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own? November also dealt with the perennial question of will the UK's ID cards programme ever run to plan?
·Your top HR tech priorities for next year revealed
Working out your budgets and trying to figure out the tech priorities for your HR department in 2010? Nick Heath has a few suggestions for HR directors as to where to invest that cash on technology to get the most benefits for your team and the rest of the business. Consider standardising your systemsTake a look at what you do in the HR department and the chances are a number of companies are doing exactly the same t ...
·Recession fuels fears of UK jobs being sent offshore
With recession leading businesses to cut IT costs as much as they can, tech workers are increasingly feeling the impact of offshoring, results from the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey show. Almost half (47.5 per cent) of respondents said their organisation has probably offshored ITjobs - up from more than a third (36 per cent) who thought that was the case last year.
·Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I become faster and smarter?
Compiled on the M6 driving to Liverpool and dispatched to silicon.com a couple of weeks later via a free wi-fi connection in my hotel. I just cannot work any faster or smarter - I seem to have exhausted every degree of freedom, every element of efficiency improvement I can muster.
·The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives. We've all done something with a mobile that has led to fingers pointed in mirth and mockery: a few years ago the Round-Up even had one of those Bluetooth headsets that make you look like a minicab driver (although the cash from all those unexpected fares came in handy at Christmas).
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