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Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry int...

Samsung Electronics says semiconductor sales growth will fall sharply next year, making it the latest company to suggest that the highly cyclical industry has seen the current upturn hit its peak already. Samsung said it expects sales growth for the overall chip industry of less than 10 percent next...

The best guarantee of success in outsourcing call center programs offshore is to match the work to be outsourced to the appropriate stage of a facility's lifecycle. Herein is a description of management and technical issues involved in running programs at offshore call centers that have gone beyond ...

Roche, Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals today announced positive results from a phase III study of investigational drug Tarceva (erlotinib) in locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer patients. The study met its primary endpoint of improving overall survival. This study demonstrated a stati...

As Hurricane Ivan bore down on the southeast coast of the United States this week, Wall Street energy traders feared the worst. What if the storm damaged or destroyed oil pipelines or offshore drilling platforms? The price of crude oil spiked as the hurricane roared through the Gulf of Mexico toward...

Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, U.S. and European negotiators found little to agree on yesterday during a five-hour meeting in Brussels, Belgium. "We had a useful and frank discussion," John Veroneau, general counsel to the U.S. trade representative an...

Qualcomm today projected it will realize higher earnings in the current quarter than previously expected, with revenues up 60 to 62 percent over the same time last year and up 4 to 5 percent for the quarter. A notable part of the increase was attributed to the company expecting to produce more of it...

Since Sarbanes-Oxley (S0X) was enacted into law on July 30, 2002, management has been scrambling to comply with the Act. In a previous column, "Sarbanes-Oxley: Insurmountable Hurdle for Small Business?," I gave some background as to what gave rise to SOX, how Congress reacted to the public outcry, a...

Activity in the Philadelphia region's manufacturing sector continues to improve, according to firms surveyed for this month's Business Outlook Survey released today by the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia. While the indicator for general activity fell from its August reading, indicators for new ...

Does the operation of a Web site mean that your company can be dragged into court in any jurisdiction? This is a question that has been the subject of numerous lawsuits in both the U.S. and other countries. Here are summaries of a few recent U.S. decisions that provide some guidance on this issue. I...

Infineon Technologies AG announced today that it has reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Infineon will plead guilty to a charge related to the violation of U.S. antitrust laws in connection with the pricing in its Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM)...

On the surface, at least, Oracle is having a very good month. Last week, it defied many pundits by successfully overturning the Department of Justice's block on its PeopleSoft acquisition. On Tuesday, Oracle turned in first-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations. Oracle posted earnings of U...

Today's hot topic is Google and the search-engine ranking of brand identities. All businesses, whether big or small, are trying to dominate the accessibility of their corporate images and brand names, mostly via cyber mediums, fluid Web sites, new cyber branding and digital domain name management te...

Oracle today announced that its first quarter earnings per share increased 18 percent to US10 cents per share, compared to the first quarter last year, outperforming Wall Street expectations that were closer to 9 cents per share. In afterhours trading following the release of the earnings numbers, O...

Offshoring's toughest moments are often encountered while attempting to manage an IT outsourcing program at a facility that is unprepared for that particular type of work. As described below, chances of offshoring success are improved by matching the type of program with the lifecycle of the offshor...