Ed Sutherland

On the eve of the unveiling of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, Adobe announced it will push for its ubiquitous PDF format to become an international standard. Adobe said it will submit the full PDF 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association (ECMA), for publication by the International Organization of Standards (ISO). Already […]

During the four years that Missouri teen Sean Hornbeck was abducted, he was sometimes able to visit social networking sites. Could a database like the one donated by social networking giant MySpace today have helped speed Hornbeck’s return, or kept him safe? Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited […]

A group of Microsoft  rivals likely won’t be attending any of next week’s parties for the much-ballyhooed launch of Windows Vista operating system for consumers. Instead, the European Commission for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) is charging Microsoft with extending behavior with Vista that European regulators already found illegal with Windows XP in its 2004 antitrust ruling. […]

IBM and Japanese printing company Ricoh are creating a vehicle for Big Blue’s exit from another non-software segment: a joint venture printing company. Ricoh said it would pay IBM $723 million for an initial 51 percent stake in the new company, called InfoPrint Solutions. Within three years, Ricoh will complete the purchase of IBM’s remaining […]

UPDATED: The spy versus spy mudslinging between computer maker Hewlett-Packard and a former executive took a break after a Texas judge told lawyers for both sides to stop talking to the press. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Schneider threw out former HP executive Karl Kamb’s counterclaim against HP. In it, Kamb alleged HP spied on […]

Cingular Wireless , the nation’s largest carrier, is the largest for a reason. The company reported that it ended 2006 with 61 million subscribers and a net income of $782 million, a 283 percent surge over 2005. The company also said it picked up 2.4 million new subscribers by the end of the fourth quarter, […]

In what could rank as one of the largest restatements since the stock options furor took off last year, chipmaker Broadcom said it would restate $2.24 billion in earnings covering 1998 through 2005. Broadcom , in an amended quarterly report, also laid some of the blame for the earnings charges at the feet of co-founder […]

Social-networking site MySpace, frequently blamed for not protecting its youngest users, today teamed up with a child protection group to distribute online alerts of missing kids. As part of the agreement with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), MySpace users within a specific ZIP code will see an Amber Alert notification at […]

Telecom equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent blamed shifting spending and increased competition for flat growth in 2006. The news, announced today in advance of its Feb. 9 earnings report, sent stocks of the Paris-based company down. Citing a number of factors, including the effects of last year’s $13.4 billion merger between U.S.-based Lucent Technologies and France’s Alcatel, […]

UPDATED: It’s probably not in Microsoft’s  new “Genuine Facts File” lesson plan, but piracy has actually reshaped the software giant in a positive way. That’s the take one industry analyst about Microsoft’s latest anti-piracy initiative today. An outgrowth of last year’s Genuine Software Initiative (GSI), Genuine Facts File hopes to inform Windows users about four […]

Faster than you can skip through annoying television commercials, digital video recorders (DVRs) have jumped from the retail shelf through tv cables and into satellite set-top boxes. That’s one reason Yankee Group is predicting that stand-alone DVRs will be gone by by 2010. Although 18 million U.S. homes have DVRs, only 2.3 million are stand-alone, […]

With profits looking slimmer than its RAZR handset, second place mobile phone maker Motorola plans to slash 3,500 workers, or five percent of its workforce. During a call today to discuss fourth quarter earnings, chairman and CEO Ed Zander said the cuts could save the company about $400 million over two years. The news comes […]