An alliance between
Google and
Intuit will make some of Google's advertising and search tools available from inside the upcoming 2007 version of Intuit's QuickBooks financial software. ...
Segway recalled all 23,000 of the high-tech scooters it has sold because a software glitch can suddenly reverse the wheels, pitching off the rider. ...
AT&T plans to spend $300 million to buy ASP
USinternetworking, which hosts and manages on-demand services and applications from vendors such as
Ariba, IBM,
Microsoft, and
Oracle. ... When police radios didn't work in thick woods during a manhunt for an accused cop killer,
New York State troopers turned to text messaging on 20 cell phones borrowed from
Cellular One to coordinate their search. ...
Cortina Systems acquired
Intel's optical-networking components business for $115 million. ... Growth in worldwide
PC sales slipped to 9.8% in the second quarter, with 52 million units shipped, but should return to double-digit growth the rest of the year, says IDC. ... A
Moroccan court jailed one man for a year and another for two years for unleashing the
Zotob computer worm. ...
Intel and
Siemens will work together on products for unified communications based on voice over IP, aimed at telecom, financial services, and health care companies.
