Archive for April, 2008

IBM launches “green energy” tools for data centers (Reuters)

A view of an IBM facility outside Boulder, Colorado October 18, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - International Business Machines
Corp on Wednesday launched tools to reduce computer
energy consumption as IBM hopes to boost its business of
selling power-saving technologies.

SugarCRM to Support IPhone, BlackBerry (PC World)

PC World - SugarCRM is bridging the distance between mobile phones and PCs with a new version of its Web-based customer relationship…

Report: Microsoft directors meeting to mull higher Yahoo bid (AP)

Combo photo shows Microsoft's Virginia offices and Yahoo's Sunnyvale headquarters in , California. Microsoft could try and replace Yahoo's board of directors as a Saturday deadline for the Internet service company to accept a US$44.6bn acquisition offer expired(AFP/File/AFP)AP - Microsoft Corp.’s directors were meeting Wednesday to consider raising the software maker’s $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of pursuing a threatened hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report.

Brangelina and kids in France for ‘long duration’: report (AFP)

Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at a February 2008 event. The megastar couple and their four children have traveled to the south of France where they will stay for some time, People magazine reported online Wednesday.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Megastar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and their four children have traveled to the south of France where they will stay for some time, People magazine reported online Wednesday.

Inspector General: Conflict of interest on NASA review board (AP)

AP - A board set up to review construction of the spaceship to return astronauts to the moon is loaded with employees of the very contractors they are supposed to scrutinize, breaking federal law, a government watchdog says.