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Brainstorm Tech: Getting down to business

July 23, 2008 3:12 PM PDT

Fortune's three-day Silicon Valley confab focuses on technological change and its effect--good and bad--on the business world.

Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill Gates

February 16, 2008 6:00 AM PST

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says loyalists who want to give Yahoo's CEO one more chance are living in the past.

The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan

November 12, 2007 4:34 AM PST

Can Google be a partner to cell phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.

Accenture's king of blue-sky thinking

October 30, 2007 2:30 PM PDT

Research director Martin Illsley discusses how utilities could use Flickr and how software development should be like home building.

Tech cliches to live by

August 27, 2007 10:15 AM PDT

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says that when it comes to trite catchphrases, we're at an inflection point.

Salesforce COO leaves for Web start-up

August 7, 2007 7:27 AM PDT

On the Salesforce executive team since 2003, Phill Robinson will become CEO of online content-delivery comany Cachelogic.

Road warriors' top worry: Missing e-mail

July 17, 2007 8:36 AM PDT

Top five business traveler concerns are revealed in BT survey. Other worries include dying cell phone batteries and IT breakdowns.

Intel, STMicro to form new flash company

May 23, 2007 6:34 AM PDT

Two chipmakers and private equity firm Francisco Partners are creating an independent company in Switzerland.

Another salvo in Icahn's bid for Motorola board seat

May 1, 2007 3:25 PM PDT

Carl Icahn and the handset giant send dueling letters to investors elucidating their positions.

Microsoft to big business: Think young

April 19, 2007 6:47 AM PDT

At AIIM Expo, software giant says that enterprises need to embrace the software of youthful workers in order to stay competitive.

Behind Redmond's Tellme deal

March 15, 2007 6:56 AM PDT

How a spilled drink and a skipped Super Bowl led Microsoft to its biggest purchase in years.

Printer makers back cartridge test standard

February 9, 2007 2:34 AM PST

Canon and others say they will support a uniform method for determining how many prints you get out of a single printer cartridge.

HP appoints Holston as general counsel

February 7, 2007 3:34 PM PST

New appointee had key role in company's pretexting scandal as an external counsel.

HP Services gets some new leadership

January 16, 2007 11:04 AM PST

HP promotes Onagh Ash to senior VP of Consulting and Integration unit, hires Bob Pryor as senior VP of global business development.

IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group

December 18, 2006 11:17 AM PST

Big Blue plans to launch a virtual reality project next month, and some of its now-private islands will open to the public soon.
Photos: IBM gets a Second Life

IBM's chief steps into 'Second Life' for incubator launch

November 14, 2006 7:09 AM PST

Sam Palmisano chooses the virtual world and Beijing to announce $100 million investment into new businesses, found via online brainstorming.
Images: IBM chief's 'Second Life' avatar

HP promotes John McCain; no, not that John McCain

November 9, 2006 6:22 AM PST

Head of Hewlett-Packard's Consulting and Integration unit for less than year, McCain moves on to top job at HP Services.

The rise and fall of IT

August 24, 2006 6:10 AM PDT

Forrester CEO George Colony says a simple change would convey the fact that business is technology and technology is business.

Postini taps ScanSafe for Web filtering

June 2, 2006 3:30 PM PDT

New service to scan Web traffic for viruses, spyware and adware is slated to be available in the third quarter.

SAP and on-demand: 'The switch is tougher'

December 18, 2006 9:32 AM PST

Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.