BRUSSELS: European Union regulators won backing from member states to fine Microsoft Corp. for failing to comply with an antitrust order.
The fines are reported to go as high as $ 256 million a day and will be backdated to December 15, and could therefore reach as much as 400 million euros.
DALLAS: Dell, the world's leading producer of PCs, announced on Wednesday that it would offer users of its computers the opportunity to recycle their old hardware for free, regardless of whether they plan to purchase a new Dell computer.
Microsoft has unveiled a new integrated software capable of transforming the upcoming Office 2007 in to a platform for unified email, voice and video communications.
The software giant announced plans for the Office Communications Server 2007, featuring Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for presence-based VoIP call management, audio, video, and web-conferencing and IM within existing applications.
BOSTON: EMC's has decided to spend nearly $ 2.1 billion for security vendor RSA which, therefore, promises to reshape the competitive landscape of the storage and infrastructure- management segments of the IT industry.
EMC will be paying $ 28 per share for RSA that is a 22 percent premium above RSA's closing price of $ 22.88 per share on Thursday.
DALLAS: The Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to a $ 900 million settlement with federal officials to end investigations into accusations of overbilling Medicare. In addition, the company plans to sell about a dozen hospitals in an effort to regain its financial footing.
The settlement,valued at about one-fourth of Tenet's stock market value will be paid over four years and ends all federal investigations by the Department of Justice and several United States attorneys.
NEW YORK: MTV Networks and Apple have announced that new television programming from Spike TV, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Logo, MTV and The N will now be available on the iTunes Music Store.
This new round of programming available for purchase and download adds to the hits of MTV Networks already on i-Tunes and crosses virtually every genre and includes Spike TV's brand-new action series "Blade: The Series," MTV's prank-comedy show "Viva La Bam" and TV Land's "Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg".
Vonage, a commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection, on Thursday introduced a new portable USB device that enables its users to place P
Finnish mobile handset giant Nokia announced on Wednesday that it will carry out commercial trials of mobile TV in Sweden's capital Stockholm, together with Swedish radio and TV broadcast service company Teracom.
DETROIT: Daimler Chrysler's Chrysler Group has announced that on Friday, it will unveil an ad campaign featuring the affable Zetsche as the pitchman, in an effort to more closely link Chrysler cars with Mercedes.
According to Zetsche, the campaign will aim to distance Chrysler from General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.
The world's largest computer manufacturer and seller IBM continues to dominate the list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, with four of the top 10 computers on the list and nearly half of the
