Veritas Software announced yesterday that the US Federal trade Commission (FTC) has approved its merger with Seagate Software's Network and Storage Management Group. The $1.6bn deal was announced in October but under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...
UK telecoms regulator, Oftel has ordered BT to shut down a free call completion service which offers to connect consumers directly to businesses. While firms have to pay to be included on Scoot's call completion list, BT's offering is free to...
British reseller, Action Computer Supplies Holdings, has called off its proposed merger with US company Insight Enterprises Inc. Action said the merger was cancelled because of predictions of slow sales and deteriorating results.
Spammers have grown tired of peddling porn and vending Viagra. The latest crop of spam hitting inboxes worldwide at the moment is selling software. Not kosher copies, of course, but pirated versions of popular packages - Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat...
Before the speech, Ballmer was given a certificate by the school's dean commemorating his partial completion of the program, noting that he still managed to create a company worth $270bn in market value.
He said: "To see the government's e-strategy through to completion, the new CIO will need to focus on building the skills base of public sector workers in IT. And Jos Creese, a fellow member of the CIO Council and chairman of the Society of...