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Eastman Kodak has signed an agreement to purchase National Semiconductor's imaging business unit, which develops and manufactures metal oxide semiconductor image sensor (CIS) devices. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. As part of this agreement, Kodak will acquire certain assets, including i...

Recent events in Nepal could spill over into India and hurt technology and financial firms in the United States and UK. The United States finds itself in a dilemma, with the policies of the previous two U.S. administrations serving less to promote security or democracy in the region and more to inci...

The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to provide battle command training support to Army commanders to improve their capabilities. The contract value is approximately $408 million over ten years. As part of the contract, Northrop Grumman's IT departments will provide planning and sup...

File-sharing applications Morpheus and Grokster were claiming legal victory after a U.S. court said it was not responsible for protecting the copyrights of material swapped on its person-to-person network. The ruling deals a blow to some 28 entertainment companies, including giants such as Disney, M...

Disaster recovery is a familiar topic for most information-intensive businesses. Disaster recovery is so familiar, in fact, that many businesses have been doing it the same way for years. The typical recovery scenario: retrieve backed-up data on tapes from remote sites, rush them to data centers whe...

News that a tense situation in a key Iraq city was coming to an end caused a rare drop in oil prices Friday, which in turn gave stocks a chance to make a run and end the week on a positive note. News that the standoff between U.S. forces and those loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr might have en...

Battered Nortel Networks said it would lay off 3,500 workers and fire seven executives as part of its latest attempt to move beyond an epic accounting scandal and regain its market prominence. The layoffs, part of a US$400 million restructuring aimed at cutting costs to be more competitive, represen...

As Google lurched into its new life as a public company, debuting Thursday as the newest member of the Nasdaq, the impact of the search engine's still-blockbuster IPO on the tech industry as a whole was already being debated. Before the offering was completed, there were some signs that the way Goog...

Compuware announced that it has filed an emergency motion in its software piracy case against IBM. Compuware asked the court to levy severe sanctions and provide other relief against IBM for introducing critical evidence after the close of discovery.

Google significantly cut the size of its upcoming initial public offering, lowering the price range it expects shares to sell for and cutting the number of shares in play, dropping the total maximum value of the year's biggest IPO from more than US$3 billion to $1.9 billion. Google dropped the price...

During the early dawn of mainframe computers, everyone was in data processing, and most corporations thought that without the word "data" in their corporate naming lingo, they would simply die. Therefore, millions of business names like "Data-This" and "Data-That" came about. All companies, big or s...

American businesses are usually very price sensitive. Compared to firms elsewhere in the world, American companies tend to pay close attention to performance numbers. Valuing this kind of metric often comes as a surprise to offshore service providers, particularly in cultures where personal connecti...

Computer Associates today announced the acquisition of PestPatrol, a privately held provider of antispyware software, in an all-cash transaction. Financial details were not disclosed. CA will market the PestPatrol technology as eTrust PestPatrol and will incorporate it into its eTrust Threat Managem...

The European Commission said it has put back its decision on the joint acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of ContentGuard Holdings by two weeks.

Most of you reading this have spent a significant amount of time building your brand equity through offline channels. Manufacturing goods that appeal to the target audience, marketing through catalogues, ongoing promotions and offers -- all contribute towards creating a strong brand. Moreover, signi...