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Oracle Springs on Primavera
Oracle continued its buying binge Wednesday, buying Primavera Systems, which makes project-management software. In this case Oracle isnt buying customers or its way into a new market. Its buying technology.
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Bank Mergers Mean More Targets for Cyber Criminals
If you want to see one way the mess on Wall Street is affecting Main Street, just check your inbox: Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the financial crisis by sending so-called phishing emails that pretend to be from banks that have recently ...
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Google Goes Videogaming (with Ads)
Google seems to be serving ads everywhere these days. Its latest advertising service targets all those people who waste their workdays playing casual games. (You know who you are.)
Advertising: Coming soon to a game near you
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The Tech Sector Finally Gets Hit
People in the tech industry have said for months that the sector was less likely to suffer in the economic downturn because tech companies tend to have vast cash reserves and dont do much borrowing. But an apparent flaw in that thesis came to light ...
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I’m a PC and I’m Still Running Windows XP
Microsofts new Im a PC ads, designed in part to boost sales of its Windows Vista operating system, are all over the place. But behind the scenes, Microsoft just made it easier for businesses to keep buying computers that come with XP, an older ...
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Customer Service: Old Technology is Often the Best
Businesses looking to cut costs should think twice before they make changes that could lead to lower-quality service. People are more likely than ever to spread the word after a bad customer-service experience.
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High-Tech Systems and Internet Rumors Conspire to Sink Apple Shares
A bad week for Apple got a little worse shortly after the market opened Friday morning, when the company lost about 10% of its market cap in a matter of minutes. The reason: A story on a citizen-journalism Web site claiming that Apple CEO Steve Jobs ...
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Microsoft Comes up with Yet Another Meaning for Cloud Computing
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Wednesday announced that his company would soon unveil Windows Cloud — a version of the Windows operating system designed with Web-based applications in mind — further diluting the meaning of the term ...
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Oracle Acquires a Company You’ve Never Heard of And it Matters
Oracle Wednesday bought Advanced Visual Technology, another small company that youve never heard of. But in the context of Oracles plan to grow through acquisition, purchases like this matter just as much to the company as the large ones.
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Tech Budgets Become a Victim of the Credit Crunch
Investors are looking for any signs that the tech sector will get caught up in the current crisis. Heres one: The events of the last couple of weeks has convinced many chief information officers that even forecasts calling for slowing tech-spending ...
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Are Apple’s Macs Toxic?
Do Apples Macintosh computers emit toxic fumes? Thats the allegation made by a French newspaper.
Will Apple have to put this label on its computers?
Liberation.fr ran an article recently citing an unnamed researcher who, after ...
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The Credit Crunch Almost Hits a Tech Company
Conventional wisdom is that the tech industry, while not immune to a credit crunch, is better positioned than other sectors of the economy in part because many tech companies are sitting on piles of cash. That doesnt mean that investors dont panic ...
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