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In recent years, as the economy has made belt-tightening a mandate for many executives, farming out work to India, Russia and other countries has become a relatively commonplace tactic for U.S.-based companies. CEOs like the cost savings, and IT departments enjoy the ability to hammer out a project ...

As a key deadline approaches, Oracle has extended its offer to buy shares of PeopleSoft stock for $19.50 in cash. According to PeopleSoft, the move reflects the fact that just 11 percent of its shareholders have agreed so far to take part in the hostile, $6.3 billion takeover bid. Oracle said its of...

A high-tech workers union that keeps close tabs on Microsoft claims the software giant is on the verge of transferring scores of U.S.-based call-center jobs overseas, a move certain to reignite debate about overseas outsourcing. The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, citing sources inside th...

With multiple offices, thousands of employees and a wealth of electronic access points into their systems, large enterprises must lock down a great deal of infrastructure to stay safe. Thanks to vendors that are committed to providing the locks in the form of firewalls, CIOs can sleep a bit better.

In a decision experts say may impact corporate monitoring and censorship of e-mail, the California Supreme Court has ruled against Intel and in favor of former employee Kourosh Kenneth "Ken" Hamidi, who previously had been barred from sending messages criticizing the chipmaker's employment practices...

A little over a year ago, an international consortium of four vendors announced they were pooling their talents and resources to create UnitedLinux -- a new, standardized flavor of the open-source Linux OS. However, UnitedLinux has not made many headlines since then, and SCO, one of the consortium m...

All eyes on Oracle's $6.3 billion bid for PeopleSoft have turned toward Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Department of Justice could crimp the hostile takeover attempt by raising regulatory concerns. Today is the deadline for the DOJ to issue a second request for information about implications of th...

Blame Hollywood for the glorification of the underdog if you must, but it is difficult to ignore the charm of a comeback kid. In today's struggling high-tech sector, it is even more notable than in the celluloid realm to see a turnaround. Yet some companies have brushed the dust from their jackets a...

Scores of technology companies that staged successful initial public offerings between 1998 and 2000 have agreed to settle a rash of lawsuits filed by shareholders. The businesses have agreed to pay at least $1 billion and to aid the shareholders as they set their sights on underwriters of the contr...

In an effort to speed up users' Internet access so that they do not switch to broadband, America Online will release an upgrade of its leading online service later this summer. The move is intended to shore up the company's customer base against what has been steady erosion. AOL has lost an estimate...

As software flaws, wireless network holes and data thieves continue to make companies vulnerable to technological bad guys, a growing need for security experts has driven more IT workers toward this constantly changing field. However, the search for the right security guru can be a tricky one. After...

Number two chipmaker AMD has announced its second-quarter sales will fall short of expectations by some $100 million, a gap the company blamed on SARS-related sales slowdowns in the Asia-Pacific region. AMD said sales will total $615 million, compared with its own earlier forecast of $715 million an...

Back in the IT good old days -- just three or four years ago -- money was plentiful, nearly all projects were approved, expanding bandwidth and the Internet made all things possible, and confidence in the economy ran high. What happened next has been described by Harvard University lecturer and auth...

Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM- and GPRS-based technologies. The services to be provided will enable users to connect to the Internet at a data transfer rate of 20 to ...

Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM- and GPRS-based technologies. The services to be provided will enable users to connect to the Internet at a data transfer rate of 20 to ...