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For many already overburdened IT departments, the simultaneous release of Exchange 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007 has created challenges. CIO's are asking their IT departments, already reeling from the Daylight Savings Time changes in North America, to deliver plans to migrate to a new client o...

Google's Book Search project "systematically violates copyright" and deprives content owners of the opportunity to make money from their creations, according to a top Microsoft attorney. In a prepared speech to be given Tuesday to the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers in New Y...

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners announced Tuesday a joint venture to bring to market a new system for distributing digital movies to theaters. "We expect to be organized and have the financing and deals we need in place for an aggressive roll...

Intel may have deleted some documents requested by Advanced Micro Devices as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, Intel attorneys said on Monday. In response, AMD accused the leading chipmaker of apparently destroying evidence. In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Farnan Jr., Intel said ...

Retail's enthusiasm for e-commerce started as a tentative courtship, but has blossomed into a love affair, with businesses large and small embracing the Internet as a prime source of sales revenue. Everybody, it seems, is entering the queue, hoping to attract a growing mob of cybershoppers. "Every e...

Research In Motion will take a $250 million charge to reduce previously reported GAAP earnings going back to 2004 to account for backdated stock options. The Canadian wireless device maker is reshuffling management as a result of the restatement, with co-CEO Jim Balsillie stepping down from his role...

Motorola's board of directors is urging shareholders to be wary of supporting an effort by billionaire investor Carl Icahn to secure a seat on the company's board. Motorola filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday setting the date for its annual shareholder meeting for Ma...

Advanced Micro Devices said Monday it will likely not meet its own already lowered targets for first-quarter sales growth, a sign that the chipmaker is continuing to lose ground to dominant rival Intel. The company did not provide details beyond saying it was "unlikely to meet" its previously stated...

The definitions or descriptions of newly minted terms and acronyms have been flying around this past year. To add to this, I'll contribute another one: Rich Enterprise Application or REA. To be clear from the start, REA is an evolution of Rich Internet Applications or RIA, and not an entirely new ca...

Approximately 10 million Americans fall victim to identity theft each year, a statistic that is expected to increase despite the diligent efforts of government and institutions to turn the tide. Leading IT security providers are arguably in the best position to understand the nature and scale of the...

It's not often that in this gee-whiz age any technology can be accused of being under-hyped, but that's the case with mobile marketing, according to a report released this week by IDC, a research firm based in Framingham, Mass. "IDC believes that mobile marketing is one of the instances in which the...

EMI on Friday formally rejected a $4.1 billion takeover bid from Warner Music Group, in the latest music industry attempt to consolidate the few remaining major labels. The world's third- and fourth-largest record labels, EMI and Warner have been flirting with a possible merger for some time. EMI sa...

Beleaguered PC maker Dell posted a 33 percent drop in net profit for its fourth quarter, falling short of even lowered Wall Street forecasts. Dell said it earned $673 million, or 30 cents a share, down from $1.01 billion or 43 cents a share in the same period a year ago. Revenue dropped about 5 perc...

Traditionally, preparation for board meetings has involved an enormous amount of time, expense, and stress. There are always last-minute items that have to be incorporated into the board book -- that heavy package that goes to board members and their support staff before a meeting. A great deal of e...

Remember when outsourcing was thought of in terms of call center operations and IT coding? Not anymore. Now, companies are leveraging offshore partnerships and highly-skilled global talent as a means to deliver innovative products and to stay ahead of emerging customer needs. Traditional Western cen...