Career Watch- Are you effective in your job search-
Q&A: Andy Lester The author of Land the Tech Job You Love thinks the way most of us look for a job is ineffective. You say that conventional job-hunting techniques don’t work for programmers, systems administrators and the like. Why is that? It’s not that they don’t work, but that they’re not enough. Competition is [...]
Nokia makes loss as smartphone sales drop by a third
Nokia made a net loss in the second quarter following a dramatic decline in smartphone sales, it reported Thursday. The company reported net sales of €9.275 billion (US$.5 billion), down 7 percent on a year earlier, but sales of smartphones plunged 2 percent in value (and percent in volume) to €2.7 billion. Nokia reported an [...]
Record Mac, iPad sales help Apple turn in record quarter
Record sales of both Macs and iPads helped Apple set new marks for quarterly revenue and earnings for its fiscal fourth-quarter. The company announced Tuesday that it logged $28.27 billion in revenue and $6.62 billion in net profit for the three-month period ended on September 2. That’s an increase of 8 percent in revenue and [...]
Oracle buys Art Technology Group for $ billion
Oracle announced Tuesday that it plans to buy e-commerce vendor Art Technology Group for about US$ billion. The deal is expected to be completed early year. ATG’s technology will be “highly complementary” to Oracle’s existing lineup of CRM (customer relationship management) ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other software, according to a statement. The growing convergence [...]
Toshiba plans more low-cost laptops
Toshiba is eyeing a greater share of the low-cost end of the laptop PC market with the development of more machines in the sub-US$99 price bracket, its new president said Wednesday. Toshiba was later to meet the demand for netbooks and low-cost PCs than some of its rivals but is now committed to delivering products [...]
IBM adds replication to deduplication
IBM said it has added asynchronous data replication to its deduplication appliance, which allows remote back up and restore between ProtecTIER boxes. The native replication feature will be available Sept. as an optional feature on new ProtecTIER orders and as a software upgrade for existing TS760G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway boxes and TS760 ProtecTIER Deduplication VTL [...]
Can you picture George Clooney as Steve Jobs on the big screen-
UK publications Now and The Sun have heated up the rumor mill over who will play the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a Hollywood biopic on which filming is expected to start year. At the top of the list? Heart throb George Clooney and fellow “ER” TV doctor Noah Wylie. GOING HOLLYWOOD: Best/worst celebrity [...]
Mozilla delays Firefox release until 20
Mozilla today announced that it will delay the release of Firefox until 20. The decision comes after several weeks of stalled progress on Firefox Beta 7, which was originally slated to ship in mid-September but slipped as Mozilla ran into several stubborn bugs. “Completing this work [on Firefox ] is taking longer than initial estimates [...]
Ericsson courts online publishers with mobile payments
Ericsson will soon launch a platform designed to let consumers buy online content such as news stories with the charge billed to their mobile phone rather than other payment methods, such as a credit card. The platform, called Web PIN Opt-in and due to launch on Oct. 26, is designed to make it easier for [...]
Oracle s Ellison excited about Sun technologies
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison expressed high hopes for his company’s now-completed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Wednesday but denied media reports that Oracle planned massive layoffs of Sun employees. Expressing ambitions to be like IBM was in the 960s, Ellison stressed that Oracle could offer customers a full line of integrated software and hardware technologies. He [...]