Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion
Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it was announced Friday.
Alcatel-Lucent reports employee data lost or stolen
A CD containing personal information about thousands of Alcatel-Lucent employees and their dependants has been lost or stolen, the company said on Thursday.
Microsoft ‘shot too high’ on virtualization, says exec
A Microsoft executive says the company had to drop some features slated for Windows Server Virtualization because it may have “shot too high” in designing the first version of the software, but the company is still convinced it will gain broad industry acceptance.
FCC approves iPhone
The FCC approved Apple’s iPhone, clearing the way for the combined phone and music player to hit the shelves.
Can Bluetooth 2.0 make a winning access point?
The fact that the market for Bluetooth access points went nowhere five years ago hasn’t stopped Germany’s Anycom from recently introducing a new one with a power and range that far eclipses the first entrants.
Netezza co-founder’s new company takes different data warehouse appliance route
A co-founder of data warehouse appliance company Netezza Monday unveiled a data warehouse appliance from his new company that customers can run on Oracle, IBM and Microsoft databases without having to modify existing applications.
Microsoft asserts patents, wants weaker system
To some observers, Microsoft seemed to have an odd sense of timing when it complained recently that open-source projects have allegedly violated 235 of its patents.
Microsoft, Clinton develop emissions tracking software
Microsoft will work with the Clinton Foundation to develop free Web-based software and services that cities around the world can use to monitor their carbon emissions and share ideas about environmental protection.
Podcast
Dell customer service takes another hitJason and Keith talk about about a new lawsuit against dell brought by the state of New York, more reports of lost personal data, 10 things we hate about meetings and Interop 2007.
Blogs
Cisco ranked 13th biggest user of foreign worker visa program
Reports are saying that Cisco ranked 13th in using the H-1B visa foreign worker program. Thirty percent of the 65,000 visas issued went to nine Indian outsourcers such as Infosys, Satyam, Tata and Wipro.
Today on Layer 8, where we think all political robo-calls should be disconnected:
Angering voters is the last thing you want to do if you are trying to get elected. But potentially thousands of voters were angered in Kentucky this week as they were repeatedly blitzed by out-of-control automated call distribution software asking them to vote for Republican candidate for governor Anne Northup.
