IBM layoff count nearing 3,000 this week
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IBM layoff count nearing 3,000 this week
Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. aren't the only top IT vendors laying off employees this week. IBM may have quietly let more than 2,800 workers go, according to the Alliance@IBM union, which expects even more job cuts at the company. Lee Conrad, a former IBM employee who now is national coordinator of Endicott, N.Y.-based Alliance@IBM, [...]
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Meet Rob Roy, the man who built the SuperNAP data center
When your name is Rob Roy, and you set out to build the world's most efficient, high-density data center, there's no sense in being modest. The CEO, founder and chairman of Switch Communications Group, and the man behind the massive SuperNAP co-location center, Roy is not one to understate his achievements. Chatting with Roy, it quickly [...]
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Microsoft may shutter Popfly Web mashup tool
Microsoft Corp. on Friday said that it may discontinue its free Popfly service that lets nonprogrammers build Web 2.0 apps. Popfly "is in a transitional phase," said a Microsoft spokeswoman on Friday. "We have no other details at the moment." A free programming tool built on Microsoft's Silverlight rich media platform, Popfly lets [...]
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Is Obama's handheld a BlackBerry or something else?
The decision announced yesterday that President Barack Obama will keep his BlackBerry, or some model of a wireless handheld, amid tight White House security would seem to take a back seat to concerns about global terrorism and economic turmoil. But in a small way, Obama's desire to continue to use a wireless handheld for personal e-mail [...]
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Microsoft extends Windows 7 beta download deadline
Microsoft Corp. yesterday extended the deadline for downloading the public beta of Windows 7 by more than two weeks, citing continued interest in the preview. The move suggests that fewer than 2.5 million copies of the beta have been downloaded since Microsoft launched the Windows 7 preview Jan. 10. Although Microsoft had originally capped [...]
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Mozilla wants to watch Firefox users
Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp., wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser - and the Web in general. "We need to know how people are using our products and using the Web," said Aza Raskin, the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. "That's [...]
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In battle for Friends, Facebook now twice as popular as MySpace
The pioneer of the social networking phenomenon has been totally overshadowed as Facebook Inc. recorded almost double the number of global visitors in December than longtime leader MySpace.com Inc. Facebook, once thought of as the up-and-coming social network, had almost 222 million unique visitors last month, while MySpace came in at 125 million, according to online [...]
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Monster.com reports theft of user data
Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database. The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for work. The company disclosed on its Web site that it recently learned [...]
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Amazon cloud could be hijacked to harvest BitTorrent files, researcher says
Cloud services are now vulnerable to malicious use, a security company has suggested, after a techie worked out how Amazon's EC2 service could be used as a BitTorrent file harvester and host. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service software developers can use to access computing, compilation and software trialling power on a dynamic [...]
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