It was early to be sure. Mainstream adoption of the PC was still a few years away and the Internet as we know it was still more than a decade in the future.
But the process should have given newspapers a rudimentary understanding of the power of digital distribution. History shows the sector was slow [...]
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In stark contrast to the many businesses beating a path to Washington to beg for money, Microsoft is urging caution as the government looks to spend billions on digitizing health care.
It’s not that Microsoft doesn’t want to see spending on health care technology. Far from it. With the recession putting a crimp on business technology [...]
The marketing push for Facebook Connect, the social network’s new data-portability project, goes on. Their angle: It’s really easy to install on any site or blog.
Focusing on ease of use is particularly important as Facebook attempts to win over site owners and publishers. There are other data-portability options out there, like OpenID and the [...]
The markets reacted late in the session as signs pointed to a delay in moving a massive bailout for the automotive industry forward.
Yahoo fell into a new dollar range on Thursday, pushed into the high $8 a share bracket as the broader markets took a beating.
For Yahoo, its shares have not traded at this point [...]
CopyTaste gives you a registration-free means of publishing blog posts or dumping text for sharing elsewhere.
The service features a WYSIWYG text editor, along with the option to insert videos and pictures into your post, the latter of which can be hosted on CopyTaste’s servers. Heavy users can install a Firefox extension that lets you rip [...]
Thompson joined Symantec in 1999 and oversaw the company’s acquisition of more than a dozen companies, including the $10.5 billion purchase of Veritas Software in 2005.
As a salesman in the 1970s at IBM, he sported polyester suits, a mustache and an afro hairdo instead of the clean shaven, blue button-down uniform that was universal at Big Blue, the article said.
(CNET News’ Stephanie Condon contributed to this report.)
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