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May 29- A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the project amid protests from irate parents.
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HELSINKI, May 6- Intel Corp's security software division McAfee said it plans to buy Finland's network firewall maker Stonesoft Oyj for around $389 million in cash, a 128 percent premium to the company's stock market value at Friday's close.
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April 30- Shares of security software maker Symantec Corp dropped some 10 percent in a span of a few seconds on the Nasdaq on Tuesday before being halted. "Pre-HFT dominance, even back in 2003, a series of market makers would have filled this mistake with substantially less carnage," said Sal Arnuk, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.
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April 30- Shares of security software maker Symantec Corp dropped around 10 percent in less than a minute on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, prompting a trading halt. The shares dropped to a low of $21.93 around 10:11 a.m. Eastern. Symantec spokesman Cris Paden said he could not immediately comment on the unusual movement in the stock price.
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April 29- Honda Motor Co Ltd is recalling almost 46,000 Fit small cars in the United States and Canada to fix a problem with the electronic stability control system software. About 2,000 cars are affected by the recall in Canada and another 43,782 in the United States, Honda said.
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The world's third-largest software maker SAP reported worse-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Friday as co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe told CNBC that cloud computing will drive the company forward.
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SEATTLE, April 18- Microsoft Corp said on Thursday Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein was leaving the company, as it struggles with sharply declining personal computer sales and a lukewarm reception for its new Windows 8 operating system.
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The Internet attacks are becoming increasingly powerful, and experts worry that soon people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, NYT reports.
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MADRID, March 26- A Spanish association representing open-source software users has filed a complaint against Microsoft Corp to the European Commission, in a new challenge to the Windows developer following a hefty fine earlier this month.
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MADRID, March 26- A Spanish association representing open-source software users has filed a complaint against Microsoft Corp to the European Commission, in a new challenge to the Windows developer following a hefty fine earlier this month.
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Brent Thill, UBS analyst, explains how the big tech's earnings miss was due to "internal execution" and not "macro issues."
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Feb 28- Security software maker Palo Alto Networks reported second-quarter revenue and earnings per share that beat expectations amid strong demand for products that offer protection from cyberattacks. In the current quarter it expects revenue in a range of $100 million to $104 million with earnings per share of around 5 cents, the company said.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25- Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea's LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010..
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25- Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Monday that it is selling its webOS operating system to LG Electronics Inc..
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25- Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea's LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010.. LG will use the operating software, used in now-defunct Palm smartphones years ago, for its "smart" or Internet-connected TVs.
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BOSTON, Jan 29- Bugs in widely used networking technology expose tens of millions of personal computers, printers and storage drives to attack by hackers over the regular Internet, researchers with a security software maker said.
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*Warning comes day after Oracle releases security update. Jan 14- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that a security update of Oracle Corp's Java software for Web browsers does not do enough to protect computers from attack, sticking to its previous advice that the program be disabled.
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*Dept of Homeland Security: Java vulnerable to hackers. Jan 11- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to the hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web.
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SEATTLE, Jan 10- Holiday-season sales of personal computers fell for the first time in more than five years, according to tech industry tracker IDC, as Microsoft Corp's new Windows 8 operating system failed to excite buyers and many instead opted for tablet devices and smartphones.
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