Jason Compton
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NEC stung by kickback scheme
By Jason Compton published
News Electronics giant discloses fraud, lays blame on handful of employees
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Avaya a takeover target?
By Jason Compton published
News Reports indicate rivals, private equity dealers may be looking to swallow call center manufacturer
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VA Software rebrands as SourceForge
By Jason Compton published
News Former VA Linux refocuses, continues name game
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US Supreme Court rejects telco antitrust lawsuit
By Jason Compton published
News Court sets high standard for conspiracy theorists; individual's attempt at starting class-action against local carriers fails
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IBM facing organized labor action over rumored layoffs
By Jason Compton published
News Company challenges magnitude of reported labor force reductions; union group continues campaign
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Microsoft makes sacrifices to ship Viridian on time
By Jason Compton published
News Redmond's server virtualization technology to come with more limitations than anticipated
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Ubuntu planning October launch of mobile Linux edition
By Jason Compton published
News Intel partnering with open source operating system developer for low-power release
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AT&T says pricetag up, audience down for next-generation
By Jason Compton published
News Telecom operator's new Internet and television service hopes to reach millions by 2009
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Second Life citizens organize technological protest
By Jason Compton published
News Linden Lab customers petitioning the company to improve its massively multiplayer world with haste
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Dell to ship computers with Ubuntu Linux installed
By Jason Compton published
News Deal represents first major OEM win for desktop-based Linux.
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US government to consider rollback of online betting
By Jason Compton published
News Blanket federal restrictions now under fire
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AT&T CEO sets surprise June exit
By Jason Compton published
News Empire-building Whitacre appears ready to call it a career
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Red Hat acquires MetaMatrix, reworks enterprise middleware
By Jason Compton published
News Data management technologies to be integrated with streamlined JBoss offerings
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Ubuntu 7.04 Linux released
By Jason Compton published
News Enthusiasts and enterprise users snap up new release, temporarily derailing company's web presence
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CentOS 5 Linux released
By Jason Compton published
News Prominent Red Hat derivative catches up with "upstream" release
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Seamonkey beginning the long climb back
By Jason Compton published
News Mozilla Foundation's "other" browser receiving more attention
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Xerox plans to acquire Global Imaging Systems
By Jason Compton published
News Copy and print giant pays handsomely for outside sales and service organization
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Dell makes difficult disclosure, delays annual report
By Jason Compton published
News Audit committee's initial findings confirm some fears, but stop well short of a full reckoning
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Intel experimenting with low-cost long-haul WLAN
By Jason Compton published
News Researchers say could attain a 100 km signal using conventional Wi-Fi protocols
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Free Software Foundation preparing new open source license
By Jason Compton published
News GPL and LGPL license drafts scheduled for Wednesday AM release
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Best Buy becomes ISP through Speakeasy purchase
By Jason Compton published
News Independent DSL provider to become part of electronic retail giant's business services division
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Dell looking to optimize servers for virtualization
By Jason Compton published
News Server maker looking for a new edge as software layers change the rules of server management and purchasing
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Kronos agrees to private buyout
By Jason Compton published
News Workforce management specialist sells to equity investor in $1.8 billion deal