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The vast majority of jobs lost to outsourcing stay within the U.S., with a small percentage actually ending up filled by overseas workers, according to a Department of Labor study. The agency's Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report that just 4,633 of the 239,361 jobs lost in large-scale layoffs it tracked in the first quarter of 2004 were ac...

Halliburton of Texas said Friday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a formal investigation into a venture in Nigeria Halliburton said the SEC is investigating payments made in connection with TSKJ's construction of a liquefied natural gas facility in Nigeria....

The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six-minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27th to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11th. The spacecraft is operating normally and is in excellent health "The maneuver is very critical for getting us into Saturn orbit because it is the...

It's not clear why the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) chose San Francisco, home of "Protesters R Us" and "Rent-a-Mob," for its annual convention this week. But one thing is for sure, the byproduct has been a measure of enlightenment, particularly concerning the protesters These are 1960s re-enactors whose activities reveal more about the...

Oil prices defied numerous predictions by rising slightly Thursday, as disruptions in Iraq and fears that other Middle East countries would be hit by terrorists countered OPEC's decision to boost production. Meanwhile, an OPEC minister said other unpredictable forces, such as a workers' strike in Nigeria, the first-largest source of oil imported t...

Hosted CRM vendor RightNow Technologies announced earlier this week that solutions and services provider 170 Systems has deployed RightNow Service to increase the quality, speed and resource-efficiency of its technical support operations Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, 170 Systems provides solutions for Oracle environments that help companies inte...

The SCO Group, owner of the Unix operating system and a provider of Unix-based technologies, today reported revenue of US$10.1 million for the quarter that ended April 30, 2004. While current-quarter revenue is down from revenue of $21.4 million from the comparable period of the prior year, the loss is primarily the result of a lack of SCOsource licensing revenue, according to a company statement to the press today...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become an increasingly hot market, with new players such as Vonage touting the ability to deliver voice communications for less cost. While there are technical, regulatory and other issues that remain ahead for VoIP, security was highlighted as a chief concern at the VON conference in the UK this week Speaker...

National Semiconductor today reported a GAAP profit of US$126.4 million, or 32 cents per share, on revenues of $571.2 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, which ended May 30th, 2004. National Semiconductor's fourth-quarter sales were 34 percent higher than the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003, according to the company, and 11 percent higher...

SAP announced on Wednesday that global brand leader PepsiCo has selected mySAP Business Suite as the primary business platform for unifying its operations, standardizing business processes and increasing efficiency across its divisions. The US$27 billion convenience food and beverage company produces Frito-Lay snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices and Quaker foods...

Manticore Technology, an application service provider for online marketing optimization software, recently announced the launch of Virtual Commerce Master 4.0, an integrated e-mail and e-commerce analytics technology designed to provide managers with insight into the effectiveness of their online business According to the company, the Manticore tec...

The Bush administration said Wednesday it will not pursue an appeal of a court ruling that frees regional telecommunications giants from having to sell wholesale access to their networks to nationwide carriers at discount prices. The decision by U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson not to seek Supreme Court review of a March appeals court ruling ...

The entertainment industry and civil liberties advocates have their dirks leveled at each other's throats again -- this time over a proposed California law aimed at protecting anonymous free speech on the Internet While proponents of the legislation say it's needed to protect employees exercising their First Amendment rights from employer retributi...

Spam is stuffing consumer and corporate e-mail inboxes with useless pitches for unwanted products and services. It is also clogging bandwidth and contributing to traffic congestion on the Internet Experts estimate that as much as 60 percent of all e-mail that enters inboxes every day is spam, unsolicited commercial e-mail that targets e-mail addres...

The English language is a great tool. It's expressive, powerful, inclusive, and evolves through the democratic and open-source processes of accepting change on the basis of common usage. Great, but you know what it doesn't have? Enough useable swear words Think about it, you probably know eight to ten "emotional verbalizations" applicable to a comp...

Count Jonathan Bingham among those who weren't all that surprised by the reputed breach of security that may have resulted in Cisco's guarded Internet Operating System source code being pilfered and posted on the Web. It's not that Bingham, a former Forrester Research analyst who is now president of Intrusic, thinks Cisco has weak network security...

VeriSign's quarterly domain name report indicates that with more than 63 million registered domain names, the Internet's .com and .net top level domain (TLD) names are at an all-time high At the same time, the number of domain names that are actually connected to working Web sites is also on the upswing, with domain registration businesses benefiti...

Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were giving virus writers an edge This month's set of ...

Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were giving virus writers an edge This month's set of ...

Sales of mobile phones jumped sharply to record-setting levels during the first quarter, but longtime leader Nokia saw its share of the market fall to the lowest level in five years, according to a report from Gartner. Nokia's share of the cell phone market fell from 34.6 percent a year ago to 28.9 percent in the first quarter, even though the Fin...