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05/25/2013 12:37:59 Daily, April 04Casting About
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1. Editor's Note: Casting About
2. Today's Top Story: CSC For Sale
- Who Will Buy CSC? IT Services Vendor Puts Itself On The Block, Plans To Cut 5,000 Jobs
Related Story:
- CSC Explores Sale Of Company, Plans Job Cuts
3. Breaking News
- Apple Refreshes Mac OS To 10.4.6
- Another Bug Spoofs Internet Explorer Addresses
- AMD Begins Shipping Chips From New Mega-Fab
- NY Attorney General Files Spyware Suit
- Brief: Air France Will Test In-Flight Cell Phone Use
- Bossidy Sees Leadership Quality In Dell, Missing In Bush
- When It Comes To Developing A Competitive Strategy,
Intuition Alone Won't Cut It
- Brief: Cell Phone Users Pine For Biometrics
4. Grab Bag: From Microsoft To The Space Station
- Ex-Microsoft Guru Books Rocket Flight (Seattle Times)
- IBM To Work With Startup On Chip That Uses Less Power (NY
Times - reg. required)
5. In Depth: Enterprise Software Update
- Oracle Buddies Up With IBM On Enterprise Apps
- SAP Buys Risk Management Vendor
- Microsoft To Acquire Business Intelligence Vendor ProClarity
- Virtualization, On-Demand, And Open Source Stirring
Stagnant Software Market
- IBM Teams With Novell On Linux-Based Middleware
6. Voice Of Authority: Offshore Outsourcing
- Paul McDougall's Blog: U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers Or
More Offshore Outsourcing: Take Your Pick
7. White Papers: E-Procurement
- The E-Procurement Benchmark Report--Less Hype, More Results
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Who Will Buy CSC? IT Services Vendor Puts Itself On The Block,
Plans To Cut 5,000 Jobs
Related Story:
CSC Explores Sale Of Company, Plans Job Cuts
Apple Refreshes Mac OS To 10.4.6
Another Bug Spoofs Internet Explorer Addresses
AMD Begins Shipping Chips From New Mega-Fab
NY Attorney General Files Spyware Suit
Brief: Air France Will Test In-Flight Cell Phone Use
Bossidy Sees Leadership Quality In Dell, Missing In Bush
When It Comes To Developing A Competitive Strategy, Intuition
Alone Won't Cut It
Brief: Cell Phone Users Pine For Biometrics
In the current episode:
John Soat With 'News2Me'
Eric Chabrow With 'FedEx-pert On IT'
Elena Malykhina With 'The Acronym Game'
Free Report Download: Linux Adoption
Benchmarking Tools
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Ex-Microsoft Guru Books Rocket Flight (Seattle Times)
IBM To Work With Startup On Chip That Uses Less Power
(NY Times - reg. required)
Oracle Buddies Up With IBM On Enterprise Apps
SAP Buys Risk Management Vendor
Microsoft To Acquire Business Intelligence Vendor ProClarity
Virtualization, On-Demand, And Open Source Stirring Stagnant
Software Market
IBM Teams With Novell On Linux-Based Middleware
Paul McDougall's Blog: U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers Or More
Offshore Outsourcing: Take Your Pick
The E-Procurement Benchmark Report--Less Hype, More Results
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1. Editor's Note: Casting About
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The subject of rumors for months, Computer Sciences Corp. is
exploring "strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value,
including a potential sale of the company."
Computer Sciences Corp. plans to cut around 4,300 jobs during
fiscal 2007, which began April 1, and about 700 employees in
fiscal 2008. The outsourcing firm said a majority of the cuts
will occur in Europe.
The new edition fixes multiple bugs and one serious security flaw.
When it rains, it pours: Yet another vulnerability pops up in
Internet Explorer.
AMD is now manufacturing Athlon 64 and Sempron microprocessors at
the new fab and will increase production to 20,000 wafers a month
in 2007.
The suit, which accuses Direct Revenue of secretly installing
millions of pop-up ad programs and spyware, is seeking a stop
order, an accounting of the company's revenues, and penalties.
The airline is readying a six-month pilot of the
European-developed GSM mobile phone standard. The trial will be
conducted on short-haul flights in Europe, and to and from North
African destinations.
Business management guru and ex-Honeywell CEO says adaptability
is a key quality for organizations to advance.
Data analysis is a not-so-secret weapon for successful companies,
author and consultant Tom Davenport tells InformationWeek
Spring Conference attendees.
A survey of U.S. cell phone users revealed that most of them want
biometric protection and wireless banking transaction capability
in their mobile phones.
More online ID theft, customers don't trust Microsoft, and more.
See excerpts from Rob "CIO of the Year" Carter's keynote address.
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4. Grab Bag: From Microsoft To The Space Station
Charles Simonyi created some of the most widely used computer
software programs on Earth. Now he's ready to take on the next
frontier: space. Formerly a top researcher at Microsoft and
co-founder of Intentional Software in Bellevue, Wash., Simonyi
has booked a seat aboard a Russian rocket for a flight to the
International Space Station.
IBM plans to announce an alliance on Tuesday with a small Silicon
Valley company that has designed a flexible microprocessor chip
intended to perform tasks like video processing using less than a
tenth of the power of today's chips.
5. In Depth: Enterprise Software Update
Oracle makes a DB2 plug-in available for Enterprise Manager and
pledges to work with IBM on JD Edwards sales and implementations.
Software from the privately held Virsa Systems addresses concerns
stipulated by Sarbanes-Oxley and other mandates.
The acquisition will become part of Microsoft's growing portfolio
of business intelligence software, including new tools for SQL
Server and an upcoming server version of Excel.
Software makers are failing to give their customers and
themselves the tools and mind-set needed to grow in tomorrow's
business environment. But that's changing, said Jason Maynard,
director of equity research for Credit Suisse Securities, at the
InformationWeek Spring Conference.
The bundles--geared for the SMB market--are easier to integrate
with Windows than were past offerings, the vendors promise.
6. Voice Of Authority: Offshore Outsourcing
As Congress considers a massive expansion of the H-1B visa worker
program, opponents of the plan should consider this: Failure by
federal lawmakers to allow more skilled IT workers into the
country will result in more U.S. corporations simply outsourcing
their computer work to India or some other offshore locale where
skilled help is plentiful and cheap. Is that what you really want?
7. White Papers: E-Procurement
The third in a series of AberdeenGroup benchmarks of
E-procurement performance since 1998, this study examines the
hurdles, strategies, and results of nearly 150 enterprises using
E-procurement today. This study also identifies best practices
for maximizing the value of E-procurement.
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