Ed Sutherland

CEOs of two tech firms found themselves on the street, the latest casualties in the long-running stock options debacle. Security vendor McAfee named an interim CEO following the resignation of its current leader while the co-founder of online news company CNet left his post. George Samenuk, McAfee CEO and chairman of the board for nearly […]

Time Warner has sold AOL’s UK Internet unit in a $688 million cash deal with UK ISP Carphone Warehouse. The agreement advances AOL’s transition to becoming an advertising-supported company, according to a statement. Carphone acquires AOL’s Internet customers in the UK and the ISP’s access business infrastructure. Along with a co-branded portal, content and other […]

Salesforce.com announced plans to introduce Apex, a Java-like programming language allowing customers to run business applications without the “burden of buying and deploying complex software infrastructure.” “This is the most important announcement Salesforce.com has ever made,” Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman and CEO, told those attending its annual user conference. The San Francisco-based company said Apex, […]

UPDATED: A pact between video search company Blinkx and Microsoft brings into sharp focus the growing importance of managing the mountain of online content. The agreement comes as Internet giant Google considers whether to buy popular video site YouTube for a reported $1.6 billion and as portals look to video as the next wave of […]

Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s  Windows operating system and the widely-used Office application suite are part of 11 patches slated to be released next week, according to a Microsoft. Six of the patches -– at least one deemed critical by Microsoft -– affect Windows users, while four address vulnerabilities in Office, one of them critically important. […]

Fujitsu and SAP AG  said they are expanding their services partnership to compete better in key markets. SAP will tailor its enterprise applications to run on Fujitsu’s servers. Financial terms of the deal were not made public. As part of the agreement, the two companies will conduct joint sales promotion programs for targeted regional and […]

UPDATED: Could Microsoft be doing something right for a change when it comes to its upcoming Vista operating system? After repeated delays and setbacks, Vista may ship on time after all, according to a financial analyst. In a note to investors, Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund said the last test version of Vista could be […]

Windows Genuine Advantage, the program launched by Microsoft to try and ensure only legitimate copies of the operating system were sold, today got a new name and a few more teeth. Set to appear in Vista and Microsoft’s next-generation server, Windows Software Protection Platform scans for unauthorized systems and downgrades features if a counterfeit is […]

Are European regulators in the final stages of filing antitrust charges against Intel? We may know soon, according to an EU official who didn’t want to be named. “It is likely that the commission will make an official statement on the case in the coming days,” the official told internetnews.com. The official said a final […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd may have known early on the company was seeking telephone records as part of its controversial probe of boardroom leaks to the media. According to a memo prepared by HP’s outside lawyers investigating the bungled leaks probe, Hurd remembered a meeting, “probably” on July 25, 2005, where there was talk of […]

Finnish cell phone giant Nokia has cross-licensed patents with Trimble, allowing the handset maker to continue its pursuit of wireless mapping applications. While the deal gives the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble a new audience of cell phone users, it grants Nokia exclusive licensing rights to Trimble’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), as well as sublicensing rights. […]

Yet more third-party fixes are out for a Windows flaw, which is not expected to be addressed until next week. Two groups are offering unofficial patches as the software giant warns users. “We are working on a security update currently scheduled for an Oct. 10 release,” Microsoft said in a Thursday security advisory. While the […]