Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1208 technology Enterprise Technology News en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:53:52 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1208 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/bs_nm/us_nortel_ciena nm/20091121/us_nortel_ciena Reuters business Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:53:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/bs_nm/us_nortel_ciena"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/i/r2770735586.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=icwb7G__vXu8u.S_2BokPA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A sign is pictured outside Nortel's Carling Campus in Ottawa August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Blair Gable" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The auction for Nortel Network's optical networking and carrier ethernet business went into a second day on Saturday, after Ciena called for a break in the auction late on Friday, two sources said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/bs_nm/us_nortel_ciena"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/i/r2770735586.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=icwb7G__vXu8u.S_2BokPA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A sign is pictured outside Nortel's Carling Campus in Ottawa August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Blair Gable" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_bi_ge/us_sun_times_personnel ap/20091120/us_sun_times_personnel AP business Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:34:31 GMT AP - Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, said Friday it named John Barron to the newly created group publisher position and as senior vice president of news and editorial operations. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091120/bs_nf/70222 nf/20091120/70222 NewsFactor business Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:41 GMT NewsFactor - Dell's earnings are up and expectations are solid, but the company's stock still took a hit Friday afternoon after analysts signaled the company isn't playing a key role in the PC market recovery. Dell's shipments were flat in the third quarter and down five percent from the year-ago period despite improvements in the large-enterprise and small-and-midsize business segments and increased demand and revenue from business customers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/eu_eu_oracle_sun ap/20091120/eu_eu_oracle_sun AP technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:58:47 GMT AP - European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_dell ap/20091120/us_earns_dell AP technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_dell"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.662c97c69a8a4055ae41170cbd636ffd.earns_dell_nybz140.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=qfEHfumR_6P.zg8ZaYj.bw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="FILE - In this June 30, 2009 file photo, a man works behind Dell laptops on display at a computer store in Beijing, China. Dell Inc. reports quarterly earnings after the market close Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Some of the computer industry's biggest players &mdash; such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. &mdash; have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_dell"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.662c97c69a8a4055ae41170cbd636ffd.earns_dell_nybz140.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=qfEHfumR_6P.zg8ZaYj.bw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this June 30, 2009 file photo, a man works behind Dell laptops on display at a computer store in Beijing, China. Dell Inc. reports quarterly earnings after the market close Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091120/tc_pcworld/eugivesoracleextratimetorespondtosuninquiry pcworld/20091120/eugivesoracleextratimetorespondtosuninquiry PC World technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:24 GMT PC World - Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.Earlier this month the Commission, Europe's top antitrust regulator, issued formal objections to the deal, arguing that it posed a threat to competition in the market for database software.The deadline for a final ruling has been put back to Jan. 27 from Jan. 19, which amounts to six additional working days for Oracle to win over the skeptical regulator. "Oracle requested the extension in order to have the opportunity to further develop its arguments in response to the Commission's concerns," the Commission said in a routine weekly statement on the status of ongoing merger investigations.The Commission's concerns center on Oracle acquiring MySQL, an open source database developed in Europe and bought by Sun a year ago for $1 billion. It argued in its statement of objections that the acquisition of the most significant open source database on the market by Oracle, the proprietary database market leader, could harm competition. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091119/bs_nf/70197 nf/20091119/70197 NewsFactor business Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:51 GMT NewsFactor - With the public beta of Office 2010, Microsoft is offering an intriguing future for the world's most popular productivity suite. The new version features integration with web-based, lightweight versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint; a mobile version; and social-networking features bolted onto Outlook. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/wr_nm/us_rugby_zealand_twitter nm/20091119/us_rugby_zealand_twitter Reuters technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:51:11 GMT Reuters - Neemia Tialata and Cory Jane can expect a talking to from All Blacks coach Graham Henry after revealing on the social networking site Twitter they had been left out of the New Zealand to play England this weekend. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091118/bs_nf/70172 nf/20091118/70172 NewsFactor business Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:01:41 GMT NewsFactor - Microsoft has released the beta version of Office 2010, along with betas of the 2010 versions of SharePoint Server, Visio, Project and Office Web Apps for business customers. Office Mobile 2010 has also reached the beta milestone. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091118/bs_nf/70173 nf/20091118/70173 NewsFactor business Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:01:24 GMT NewsFactor - Social networking has been the face of Web 2.0 for many years now. But until now the phrase has been synonymous with Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. Despite the efforts of companies like LinkedIn to bring social networking into the business world, in many ways organizations have been slow to adapt to the new technology. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_hi_te/us_ibm_services_deal ap/20091118/us_ibm_services_deal AP technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:35:32 GMT AP - IBM Corp. said Wednesday it signed a contract extension worth 300 million pounds ($500 million) with a British government agency that licenses drivers and registers their cars. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091118/tc_zd/246208 zd/20091118/246208 PC Magazine technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:48:26 GMT PC Magazine - Microsoft announced Wednesday that Asus will be producing a new Home Server, known as the TS Mini. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/tc_afp/usdisasteritfemainternet afp/20091118/usdisasteritfemainternet AFP technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:27:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/tc_afp/usdisasteritfemainternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258568793436-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=zosBqhe3MtGuAvxqcA0X1g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FEMA representative Richard Dae (C) registers Victor Leos (R) and his wife Sanjuanita for assistance after their home was damaged during Hurricane Ike, in 2008 in Galveston, Texas. The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/tc_afp/usdisasteritfemainternet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258568793436-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=zosBqhe3MtGuAvxqcA0X1g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FEMA representative Richard Dae (C) registers Victor Leos (R) and his wife Sanjuanita for assistance after their home was damaged during Hurricane Ike, in 2008 in Galveston, Texas. The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091118/tc_pcworld/salesforcecomannounceschattersocialnetworkingapp pcworld/20091118/salesforcecomannounceschattersocialnetworkingapp PC World technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:10:21 GMT PC World - Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking application the vendor dubbed a "Facebook for the Enterprise." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091118/tc_pcworld/microsoftoffice2010anintriguingbeta pcworld/20091118/microsoftoffice2010anintriguingbeta PC World technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:01:00 GMT PC World - With the release of the Office 2010 beta, the general public finally gets to check out how Microsoft plans to deliver on its promises for the next edition of its flagship productivity suite--namely, close integration with lightweight Web versions of core apps (Excel and PowerPoint Web are the first to debut for consumers via Windows Live, with Word and OneNote available only in the business-oriented SharePoint 2010 server beta), better multimedia support, a subtle interface refresh, and a slew of features designed to make document creation and sharing easier. But there's some news too, most notably support within Outlook for tracking feeds from social networks. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091118/tc_zd/246198 zd/20091118/246198 PC Magazine technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:07:20 GMT PC Magazine - Several Droid users have reported issues with the smartphone's Exchange support, including the fact that the device has no support at all for Exchange servers when certain enhanced security features are enabled. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_ibm_brain_mapping ap/20091118/us_tec_ibm_brain_mapping AP technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:02:47 GMT AP - Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain &mdash; an effort that tests the limits of technology. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091117/tc_pcworld/ibmofferssymphonyonkeepodusbdevices pcworld/20091117/ibmofferssymphonyonkeepodusbdevices PC World technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:21 GMT PC World - IBM announced Tuesday that its free Lotus Symphony office productivity suite is now available on Keepods -- thin USB devices made by the Italian company NSEC. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091117/tc_pcworld/unfriendis2009swordoftheyeargeeklexicongoespop pcworld/20091117/unfriendis2009swordoftheyeargeeklexicongoespop PC World technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:00 GMT PC World - Tech culture has come a long way from its widely-lambasted formative years of LAN parties, red Doritos and Mountain Dew to today, when the New Oxford Dictionary ekes our vocab and ratifies it. "Unfriend," a term used to describe deleting a social networking buddy (like your mom on Facebook) was chosen as 2009's Word of the Year. (Funny, I always thought it was defriend.) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/enterprise/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091117/tc_pcworld/tmobilestartssellingsidekicksagainforless pcworld/20091117/tmobilestartssellingsidekicksagainforless PC World technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:00 GMT PC World - T-Mobile has begun selling Sidekicks again - this time, at somewhat lower pricing - a little over a month after a massive server failure at Microsoft's Danger subsidiary caused users of the phone to lose contact information, photos, and other personal data.