Stolen: Google employees' personal data
Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...

Bill Gates bids farewell to Microsoft
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates' final day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Bill Gates' farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead. ...

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company. Redmond, Washington--Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious...

Gates: Yahoo deal unlikely
During his last day as a full-time Microsoft employee, Microsoft's Bill Gates told Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely. NEW YORK--Microsoft's Bill Gates told journalist Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely, CNBC reported on Friday. ...

'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that...

Offshoring: India still No. 1
Bangalore remains on top as the global outsourcing leader but with prices on the rise in India, locations like Beijing and Auckland are catching up fast. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal global delivery location for businesses, according to a new report from IDC. The...

California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude
Next week a California law will require the use of hands-free phones and ban cell phones entirely for drivers under 18--but there's a loophole that allows texting while driving. LOS ANGELES--Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets...

Sue Decker's super powers
Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. ...

Yahoo creates three new teams to report to Decker
Yahoo unveiled its fourth reorganization in the past 18 months. Yahoo hopes its three new divisions will centralize its Internet products--all will report to Yahoo President Susan Decker. San Francisco--Yahoo unveiled on Thursday its fourth reorganization in the past 18 months as the embattled company seeks to focus on...

Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V
Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality. Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualization...