SOURCE: FORBES.com Google: Bellwether Of The 'OO' Index Dan Ackman, 08.19.04, 9:05 AM ET NEW YORK - One of the reasons Google is successful is that it's fun to say. Google. That's fun. Even more fun than Yahoo!. Now Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) will trade under the Nasdaq ticker 'GOOG,' which is fun as well. It's also unique. There are no other consonant-double-O-consonant tickers in the U.S. stock market. There is no 'BOOB', perhaps for good reason. There is no 'DOO...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com eBay looks to go local with Craigslist stake Published: August 13, 2004, 1:56 PM PDT By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com eBay's announcement on Friday that it took a 25 percent stake in online classifieds site Craigslist illustrates how the Web's biggest players are putting a heavy focus on going local. Craigslist, launched in 1995, is a bare-bones classifieds site for people looking for almost anything, such as apartments, dates or baseball tickets, i...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Security pro: Windows easier to 'own' Published: August 13, 2004, 12:47 PM PDT By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Microsoft has been waiting for security researchers to say that its Windows operating system has a lower total cost of ownership. One finally has, but that's not good news. On Friday, David Aitel, a noted security professional and managing director of vulnerability assessment firm Immunity, published a paper stating that "owning" a ...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Study: IT workers more optimistic Published: August 13, 2004, 3:11 PM PDT By Ed Frauenheim Staff Writer, CNET News.com Information technology workers in the United States are lifting their chins. At least that's the conclusion of a recent study by staffing company Hudson, which found that IT workers had greater confidence in the employment market last month than they did in June. In addition, IT workers' optimism remained higher than that of U.S. worker...
SOURCE: NY Times Controversial Overtime Rules Take Effect By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: August 23, 2004 The Bush administration's new overtime rules go into effect today, but the Kerry campaign has already begun attacking the overhauled regulations, saying they will hurt millions of American workers. Urging President Bush to scrap the rules, the Kerry campaign and organized labor say the regulations will exempt up to six million additional workers from receiving overtime ...
SOURCE: NY Times Google's Offering Proves Stock Auctions Can Really Work By FLOYD NORRIS Published: August 23, 2004 It worked. Google's auction process, both criticized and feared on Wall Street, could have gone much more smoothly, and investors might yet regret putting money into a company that plans to go its own way regardless of what others think. But the fact is that Google managed to go public at a very attractive valuation - many times higher, for example, than the ...
SOURCE: NYTIMES An Oil Shock That Could Be an Economic Stimulus in Disguise By EDUARDO PORTER Published: August 21, 2004 How much will expensive oil hurt? Over the last 30 years, the United States has been driven into recession three times by abrupt surges in the price of oil. As the price of crude has surged over the last two weeks, reaching new heights almost daily, some economists have begun to worry that the current "oil shock" will slam the brakes on the nation's econom...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com A billion PC users on the way Published: August 2, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work. The number of PC users is expected to hit or exceed 1 billion by 2010, up from around 660 million to 670 million today, fueled primarily by new adopters in develo...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Gartner: 'Steer away' from cheap Windows XP Published: August 13, 2004, 11:02 AM PDT By Aloysius Choong Special to CNET News.com Gartner has labeled Microsoft's upcoming version of Windows for developing countries as a product with good intent but poor execution. In a report published this week, Gartner analysts Dion Wiggins and Martin Gilliland noted that missing features in the Windows XP Starter Edition would frustrate users and claimed that its limi...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Drag-and-drop flaw mars Microsoft's latest update Published: August 20, 2004, 1:04 PM PDT By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect, even on computers updated with Microsoft's latest security patch. The flaw affects the latest version of Internet Explorer running on Windows XP, even after the latest major update--known as Service Pa...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Offshoring: A view from both shores June 29, 2004, 5:51 AM PT By Ed Frauenheim Staff Writer, CNET News.com Vivek Paul occupies a unique vantage point in the controversy roiling the technology industry over offshore outsourcing. An American citizen, Paul also is a native of India and chief executive officer of Wipro Technologies, one of that country's largest IT service companies. Many American techies are increasingly bitter about the pickup in the stre...
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SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com The spyware inferno August 13, 2004, 10:00 AM PT By Sharon Wienbar The proliferation of advertising programs on the PC is called by many names--most of which involve unprintable language. To the Slashdot crowd, it's spyware and its authors should be burned at the stake. Some in Congress call it "cyber trespass" and want to outlaw specific "deceptive practices." To Claria, the biggest company in the niche, it's extraordinarily profitable to the tune of $...
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SOURCE: NY Times An Online Supplier for Your Desktop Cineplex By TIM GNATEK Published: August 12, 2004 GOING to the movies these days may simply involve a trip to your desktop, as video-on-demand Internet movie services help turn personal computers into multiscreen cineplexes. A technological step beyond video rentals and pay-per-view cable movie channels, these online movie services provide a legal and reliable way to download and stream thousands of films, from recently re...