By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 5 Dec, 2008
The Symbian Foundation is on track to take over Symbian as an open-source operating system in 2010 and will put out its first distribution of software for developers in the first half of next year, its executive director said Thursday. read more »
By Marc Ferranti, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 4 Dec, 2008
Job cuts at AT&T and Adobe Systems and lower expectations for bellwethers like Google and Microsoft this week make it is clear that the now-official U.S. recession is hitting all sectors of IT, though so far it looks like hardware and components will get the worst of it. read more »
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 4 Dec, 2008
A top SAP executive on Wednesday said the company is "implementing a series of tough, tough actions to convert the company to a much leaner operation than it is today," but did not utter the word "layoff." read more »
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service\Seattle Bureau 4 Dec, 2008
After warning less than a month ago that the worldwide handset market would do worse than expected this year and next, Nokia on Thursday revised down its expectations again. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 4 Dec, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices expects revenue for its fourth quarter to be 25 percent lower than its third-quarter revenue, the company announced Thursday. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 4 Dec, 2008
AT&T will lay off 12,000 workers through 2009 as the company reorganizes and faces a tough economic environment, the company said Thursday. read more »
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 4 Dec, 2008
Hit by the global economic slowdown, Adobe Systems said Wednesday that it would cut 600 jobs and lowered its revenue expectations for the fourth quarter. read more »
By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service\Taipei Bureau 3 Dec, 2008
The Taiwanese government stands ready to help its ailing DRAM industry but hopes to avoid U.S.-style capital injections, the island's president said Wednesday. read more »
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service\Miami Bureau 2 Dec, 2008
Jonathan Miller, the well-respected former AOL CEO, has been talking for months to potential investors interested in buying all or part of Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
