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Michael Dell will relinquish the title of CEO at the company he founded in a dormitory room 20 years ago but will remain actively involved in day-to-day operations as chairman of the board, Dell Computer announced Thursday. Longtime executive Kevin Rollins, who joined Dell full-time seven years ago,...

For years, Juniper Networks has been Cisco's chief competitor in the networking arena. With its recent acquisition of NetScreen, Juniper seems to have bought some clout that could make a difference in that fight. The $3.4 billion deal brings Juniper into the security and low-end corporate sectors. P...

In a move apparently designed to quell fears about widespread outsourcing of U.S.-based tech jobs to other countries, IBM has established a $25 million worker retraining fund. The fund, dubbed the Human Capital Alliance, will be made available to IBM workers whose current positions or skill-sets are...

The U.S. Department of Justice has delivered a body blow to Oracle's languishing hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, suing to block the $9.4 billion deal because it reportedly would result in higher prices, less innovation and fewer choices. "We believe this transaction is anticompetitive -- pure a...

Sun Microsystems has announced it will expand its HP Away program in a bid to lure Hewlett-Packard's Unix customers. The company will dangle its own Unix operating system, Solaris, as an alternative to HP-UX. Sun is dangling several carrots to attract HP customers, including free two-week migration ...

After its successful push into the consumer electronics space in 2003, Gateway's branded introduction to the professional services space is problematic, according to Yankee Group SMB senior analyst Mike Lauricella. Specifically, Lauricella expressed doubts about Gateway's ability to tap into the lar...

Seeking to add clout to its fast-growing services business, Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to buy a Germany-based consulting firm for about $420 million. The deal calls for HP to take over all three divisions of ThyssenKrupp Group's information technology consulting business: Triaton GmhB, whic...

Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry. For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much...

Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry. For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much...

Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry. For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much...

Apple and Pepsi's iTunes giveaway, which promises a free music download coupon under 1 in 3 Pepsi bottlecaps, made a big splash with an ad aired during January's Super Bowl. Now, is the promotion on the rocks following disclosure of a tactic to identify winning bottles without purchasing them first?...

Hewlett-Packard said profits rose as sales improved in many of its business segments during its first fiscal quarter of 2004. Revenue totaled $19.5 billion, up 9 percent from the same time frame in 2003. HP again turned a profit in all of its business units, marking just the second time it has done ...

Spurred by rulings designed to improve corporate accountability, companies are scrambling to comply with an escalating burden of legislative record-keeping requirements -- and they are spending millions of dollars on consultants, lawyers, auditors and technology in the process. Now, IBM has stepped ...

The Intel Developer Forum commenced Tuesday with a statement that Intel will outfit its 32-bit Xeon server and workstation processors with 64-bit extensions. According to the company, this technology will become available in the second quarter of 2004. The announcement comes several months after riv...

Yahoo has given the boot to longtime partner Google, saying its own family of search tools, based on its own technology, will now return results to its users. The move puts an end to what had become an increasingly awkward relationship. The severing of ties, which Yahoo hinted at earlier this year, ...