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Apple's former counsel settles with SEC

Nancy R. Heinen, the former general counsel of Apple and considered by some to be the sacrificial lamb in the company's options backdating scandal, has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Without admission or denial of the SEC's accusations, Heinen has agreed to a fine of $2.2 million. In...

Tags: SEC, Apple Inc., Backdating, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal

Brocade has said it will acquire Foundry Networks, a company that does enterprise and service provider switching and routing, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The acquisition, which still needs final approval, comes on the heels of corporate problems for Brocade, notably the criminal misconduct sentence...

Tags: Stock Option, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backdating, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Jobs, lawyer cleared of criminal charges

Steve Jobs is off the hook for options backdating charges, according to the Wall Street Journal. Not that he was ever really on the hook. More interesting is that former Apple lawyer Nancy Heinen has also been cleared on criminal charges although she still faces civil litigation with the SEC....

Tags: Job, Board, Hook, Lawyer, Apple Inc., Backdating, Corporate Governance, Litigation, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Apple trying to avoid a train wreck

Apple trying to avoid a train wreckMakes You WonderAl Gore, running around the world telling everyone how we're all doomed to an environmental holocaust and when you read between the lines it is because of the Bush Administration's links to oil companies. Yet, the very same Al Gore who...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Financial accounting, Backdating, Microsoft Corp., job, Apple Inc., Al Gore, SEC

Discussion threads 2007-01-02

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News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-08-15

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Google's board member targeted by SEC

Google director Ann Mather is facing civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection to an options backdating scandal at Pixar, where Mather used to be CFO from 1999 to 2004. In Google's filing, the company disclosed: On April 23, 2008, Ann was advised...

Tags: Google Inc., Board, SEC, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Corporate Governance, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-29

News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Jobs back in the hot seat over options

Given no time to bathe in the excellent earnings announced yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is again coming under fire for his receipt of backdated stock options. According to Wikipedia: Options backdating is the practice of granting an employee stock option that is dated prior to...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Stock Options, Stock Option, Stock, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Stock Options & Grants, Job, Finance, Human Resources, New York City Employees

Blog posts 2008-04-24

BEA-Oracle products assimilation roadmap analyzed, but what about the sales forces?

Here's the third-day story on the BEA-Oracle merger development: How would the various products line up? Rich Seeley talks with several analysts, myself included, in this in-depth story about the ways in which tools, app servers, portals, transaction monitors, SOA components, and other integration middleware like ESBs...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Oracle Sales Force, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Report: Jobs subpoenaed in backdating case

Report: Jobs subpoenaed in backdating caseThough this was dead and buriedthis backdating corpse just won't stay down. Was there a govt audit day and the net was cast?Come on now.Mr. Jobs is too busy to come in and testify in the case against those taking the fall for him....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Financial accounting, Jobs Subpoenaed, job

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

Report: Jobs was subpoenaed in backdating lawsuit

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in the company's option backdating lawsuit. The news, reported by Bloomberg and based on "two people familiar with the matter," indicates that the SEC wants testimony from Jobs in its lawsuit against...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Lawsuit, SEC, Stock Options, Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Options & Grants, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-20

News to know: Workday; Windows Home Server; Hydrogen data centers

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags. Dennis Howlett: Workday financials: accounting isn't real.Christopher Dawson: Gmail use grows on college campuses.NYT: Hewlett Introduces a Web Feature to Make Document Printing Mobile.Mary Jo Foley: Windows Home Server won't launch on August 27. A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Ibiza.Dan...

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise 2.0, Workday, Hydrogen, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me money

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me moneyA legend in his own mindCurrent Global OS usage by OneStat puts Windows at around 97%, Mac around 2.7% and Linux 0.3%. Hmmm, I don't seem to see Solaris use or where their 9 million downloads went. ...

Tags: Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, Jonathan Schwartz, Paul, Sun Microsystems Inc., kind-of security, Java, security, Sun Solaris, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Parsing the details of the Microsoft-Novell pact

Novell dropped it annual report Friday and with it three exhibits offering details of its SUSE Linux pact with Microsoft. Two key points: A lot of the good stuff about the partnership was redacted, opening more questions. The third version of the General Public License seems to have some teeth--at...

Tags: General, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-05-28

Can Novell get its good name back?

Can Novell get its good name back?Reading the fine print[i]Novell promises to finally share the full agreement. [/i]Nope -- they say that parts will be redacted.Anyone care to guess which?Get it back from who?Certainly not their customers, they gave the deal a 90% approval rating. Certainly not from Microsoft,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Financial accounting, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dana

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

Notes from Apple's shareholder meeting

Apple held its annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday. Steve Jobs and other company executives addressed pointed questions about the lingering stock options scandal, the Leopard delay, Apples green policies and iPhone. Macworld and CNBC have posted notes from the meeting. Some highlights:"Backdating stock options is unfair to shareholders...

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Steve Jobs, shareholder, Apple iPhone, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2007-05-11

News to know: Isolating zero-day exploits; CelebriMiis; Microsoft's virtualization backtrack

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: New MS tool isolates Office 2003 zero-day exploits. Hackers in Seattle for Microsofts Blue Hat, ToorCon.Apple plugs critical holes in Darwin Streaming Server. Cybercrooks add QuickTime, WinZip flaws to arsenal.Red Hat launches open-source Exchange.Larry Dignan: Are Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hats shopping list?Apples Jobs brushes...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), virtualization, CelebriMiis, Intels, zero-day bug, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-05-11

Apple's Jobs brushes aside backdating concerns

Apple's Jobs brushes aside backdating concernsOne moreOne more measure of success in NZ's world: ethical bankruptcy.:o)Jobs proves just how petty he is[i]"I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products."[/i]How pathetic that he has to badmouth...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., job, great product, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

Joris Evers leaves News.com, lands at McAfee

CNET News.com security reporter Joris Evers is leaving the journalism field to take a job in McAfees PR department.Evers has confirmed he will join the Santa Clara, Calif. security vendor on May 21 as director of public relations. He joins McAfee at a time when the anti-virus powerhouse is looking...

Tags: Viruses and Worms, Symantec, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Privacy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, McAfee, Hirings and firings, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers

Blog posts 2007-04-30