Stories by Linda Rosencrance

Microsoft updates Windows to combat VeriSign glitch

Microsoft today said it has completed a promised software update for all of its Windows operating system releases dating back to 1995 as part of an effort to combat a pair of fraudulent digital certificates that were mistakenly issued by VeriSign.

Pfizer, IBM, Microsoft to sell software to doctors

Drug manufacturer Pfizer, IBM and Microsoft are forming a joint venture aimed at developing software and services to cut the amount of administrative paperwork in doctors' offices, the companies said today.

Viant to lay off workers, close offices

nternet consulting firm Viant, said today that it will slash 38 percent of its workforce, or 211 employees, and close its offices in Houston, San Francisco and Munich, Germany, in an effort to reduce costs.

Shipping goes down the tubes

Imagine a national network of pipes, some as small as one foot in diameter and half a mile long, for transporting mail or machine parts between two buildings, and others as large as six feet in diameter and hundreds of miles long for intercity and interstate freight shipment. Sound far-fetched? Not to Professor Henry Liu, director of the Capsule Pipeline Research Center (CPRC) at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

CSC to cut as many as 900 jobs

Computer Sciences today became the latest IT consulting and services firm to announce cutbacks, saying it will eliminate 700 to 900 jobs because of revenue and earnings that are far lower than expected.

UPS adds new online tools

United Parcel Service Inc. has added two new tools to its online toolbox, enhanced two others and made all of them available in XML.

Large ads attract more site traffic, trade group says

Size really does matter, at least for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). The New York-based trade group last month issued new guidelines for larger online ads, giving electronic retailers more space to market their products on the Internet.

NEC and Cray team up, ending supercomputer feud

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. and Japanese rival NEC Corp. have buried the hatchet and signed an agreement under which Cray will sell NEC's vector supercomputers in the US and the two companies will ask the federal government to drop massive antidumping duties that have been imposed against those machines since 1997.

GEAC Posts Loss, Puts Acquisition Moves on Hold

Struggling software vendor Geac Computer Corp. Friday reported a fiscal second-quarter loss of US$37.2 million due to a one-two punch of weak enterprise application sales and the fact that users are taking longer to make decisions about buying its product.

IBM Joins Chief Privacy Officer Trend

IBM Corp. today named a chief privacy officer, joining the increasing number of companies that are appointing executives to oversee their data privacy policies and initiatives.

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