Recession: IT fights back

• Retailers Back Warner Bros. DVD Combination Time Warner said top U S retailers would stock its proposed new DVD which merges two competing formats on one disc in a step toward getting consumers to pay more for better pictures and sound ...

• It seems Dizwell has gone, come back (maybe) and gone again I have followed a few posts on Howards site and others blogs over the last few days and was saddened to see that Howard has decided to pull the plug on running and maintaining his site I saw the last Read More Posted by Pete On 01 01 07 At 01 4 ...

• Brief: Microsoft Strikes Back At Cybersquatters Microsoft is sending its lawyers after four men whom it alleges are profiting from the practice of cybersquatting and typo squatting ...

• Parents Send Kids Back To School With Cell Phones Although the phones are off limits during school hours more children are showing up with the devices creating a new challenge for educators n ...

• BMW site back in Google search database But the automaker criticized Google for removing its German BMW site from the company s search engine database saying it had done nothing w ...

• Sprint Rethinks Outsourcing, Pulls Some Work Back Wireless and long distance services provider Sprint Nextel is quietly pulling back some of the IT work it outsourced to IBM two years ago under a 400 million deal and also is reviewing a multibillion dollar customer service support contract it holds with the com ...

• Google, tech companies back StopBadware.org coalition Google Lenovo and Sun are funding the StopBadware org a new organization that aims to help consumers fight malicious soft ...

• Faster Wi-Fi Standard Back On Track The proposed standard 802 11n provides a huge speed boost for wireless networks with actual throughput speeds of 100 megabits per se ...

• Microsoft Refutes Windows "Back Door" Claim Microsoft has denied allegations that the Windows Metafile WMF bug is actually a quot; back doorquot; planted by the company s developers so they could secretly access users ...

• Congressman Fights Treasury's Plans for Telecom Contract The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee is threatening to try to cut the Treasury Department s funding for a potential 1 billion telecommunications contract if the agency doesn t agree to work under an umbrella procurement program instead of going its own ...