Before the new year rolls in, we're recapping the tech industry's top earners, biggest CEO bonuses, fattest raises, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/030911-ceo-perks.html">priciest perks</a> and smallest salary earners, calculated from our analysis of 36 tech companies' 2011 proxy statements.
An Infosys Technologies employee, who alleged in a lawsuit that the Indian offshore outsourcing company wrongly used visitor visas in its work, won a federal court decision that will allow him to bring his case to a jury.
IBM Doesn't like drama -- and it proved that late last month when, without fanfare, its board of directors named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty to succeed Sam Palmisano as CEO.
The traditional retirement age for CEOs at IBM has been 60, or close to it.
IBM doesn't like drama -- and it proved that with its appointment Tuesday of Virginia Rometty as its new CEO.
Virginia "Ginni" Rometty is set to succeed <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030811-ibm-palmisano-compensation.html">Sam Palmisano</a> as CEO of IBM in January, and industry watchers expect a smooth, drama-free transition as the 30-year IBM veteran takes the reins. Rometty, 54, has played a critical role in shaping IBM strategy, and she's expected to stay the course she helped define.
While many in the iOSsphere are preordering the relentlessly familiar new <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 4S in record numbers, and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101411-sprint-faithful-wait-in-the-251985.html">standing in the rain to buy one today</a>, many others simply wait. They know, they just know, that the iPhone 5 is out there. Calling to them.
HP has started laying off workers associated with last year's billion-dollar acquisition of Palm, as it closes down the mobile device business it planned to base on Palm's webOS. The news comes almost exactly a month after HP announced a sweeping reorganization and refocusing of its business.
WebOS wasn't really a bad operating system; it just never really had a purpose.
Hewlett-Packard may be giving up on making webOS devices such as the Pre 3 and Veer smartphones and TouchPad tablet, but executives at the company say committed to developing its mobile platform. HP appears convinced it can wring some value from the mobile OS it picked up after purchasing Palm last year for $1.2 billion.
Six months after laying out his "strategic vision" for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realize it. And abandoned the mobile computing space.
Hewlett-Packard's departure from the tablet business does not mean that Apple's iPad will remain the undisputed king, analysts said today.
HP's decision to dump its WebOS mobile devices leaves diehard developers who built for it in limbo, said a former HP and Palm software development official who nonetheless lauded the technology and expressed hope that WebOS could be revived somehow.
A commanding 38 per cent share of all smartphone users in the US used Android-based devices in the three months ending in May, according to ComScore.
HP straddles two worlds: enterprise systems and consumer electronics. Its new TouchPad tablet is intended to satisfy the needs of both. But you'll have to look harder and wait longer to see HP's unfolding enterprise plan for TouchPad.