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Photos: Solazyme rethinks algae: Biotech company is exploring how algae can be used to make everything from biofuel to cooking oil and skin care products. by CNET News.com; Tags: Biofuel, Biotechnology Company, Photograph, Biotechnology, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-06-26
IT Solution Providers Save Time With Assessment and Deployment Solution: IT consulting firm CIO-CTO for Hire provides software solutions to small and midsize businesses. The company was recently asked to deploy new solutions for a biotechnology company that needed to consolidate its various networks and operating systems and wanted a more reliable system with better security. It also required a...; Tags: Consulting Company, Network Infrastructure, Network, Information Technology, Biotechnology Company, Microsoft Corp., Biotechnology, Network Administration, Networking; Case studies 2006-07-12
Leading Biotechnology Company Deploys Innovative Information-Sharing Solution and Increases Productivity of Employees by 100 Per Cent: Employing over 300 people, Acambis plc is a biotechnology company specialising in the development of vaccines to prevent and treat infectious diseases. Acambis was running a mixture of systems across a range of applications. This made it difficult to locate, utilise, and share thousands of documents held at various locations....; Tags: Acambis, Biotechnology Company, Biotechnology; Case studies

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Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism: I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...; Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-22
RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug: Just a quick note to update a story I wrote last week on an unpatched remote execution vulnerability affecting BlackBerry business users: Research in Motion RIM has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. ...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-22

Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft: The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...; Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-22
VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale: updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...; Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard: Twitter's spam-blocking efforts have falsely identified popular company Twitter feeds and individuals as spammers, creating a definite damper in community engagement. by Jennifer Leggio; Tags: Anti-spam, Twitter, Pandora, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose: The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...; Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Carbon management software maker snags $5 million: Carbonetworks, which sells software for providing better visibility into managing your company's carbon impact, has closed $5 million in Series A funding from NGEN Partners. The company, which is based in Victoria, B.C., will use the money to expand its operations. I blogged about Carbonetworks'...; Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-22
10 hard drive disasters: Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...; Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com; News items 2008-07-22
Zuora: the future business model?: I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?: Â A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...; Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap: Amid all the chatter about Apple's fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint at cheaper iPods and notebooks in the not-to-distant future. Following Apple's typical strong...; Tags: Notebook, Apple iPod, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Peter Oppenheimer, September, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-22
The evolution of search over traditional BI: Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...; Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio; News items 2008-07-22
First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appear: First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appearPerception IS reality.The damage is done. Apple is #3 in US home computer sales today. Perception [b]is[/b] reality and unfortunately for microsoft they've got battered, much of it being well deserved. This is the proverbial finger to plug a dyke breach.RE: First hints...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., advertisement; Discussion threads 2008-07-21
Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way: I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...; Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-21
McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement: A federal jury in Texas has ordered McAfee to pay $18 million in past and future damages for infringing on a patent held by DeepNines Inc., according to Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog. The court decision, revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, was handed down last week. ...; Tags: McAfee Inc., SEC Filing, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-21
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
SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours: Shares of SanDisk are getting clobbered in after-hours trading, down more than 13 percent after the company reported a net loss of $68 million, or 30 cents per share, and a one percent drop in revenue for its second quarter. A surprised Wall Street had been expecting earnings of 13...; Tags: Card, Phone, Memory Card, SanDisk Corp., Stock, Cell Phone, Flash Memory, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-21