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Microsoft Philippines announced the promotion and appointment of Rafael “Pepeng” Rollan as its new Managing Director. Rollan will start his new role officially on October 1, 2007.
Rollan has been with Microsoft for four and a half years, where he started as sales manager for enterprise accounts. Over the last four years, Rollan worked his [...]

A lady executive will be leaving her work in a multi-national I.T. company soon. Reason for her  supposed departure was undisclosed.
In a telephone conversation, the lady executive said she will not be divulging any information yet and will wait for the proper time to make any pronouncement. “But I am preparing for it” [...]

Dell announced that its Audit Committee has completed its independent investigation into certain accounting and financial reporting matters.
As a result of accounting errors and irregularities identified in that investigation and in additional reviews conducted by management, the Audit Committee has determined to restate the company’s financial statements relating to fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 [...]

IBM Corporation and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have both agreed to pay the United States more than $5.2 million to settle allegations that the companies solicited and provided improper payments and other things of value on technology contracts with government agencies.
IBM has agreed to pay $2,972,038.50, while PWC will pay $2,316,662.  According to the complaints against the companies, [...]

Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a third quarter GAAP net income of $1.8 billion or $0.66 per share, up from $1.4 billion or $0.48 per share in the prior year quarter.
Non-GAAP net income for the period grew to $1.9 billion or $0.71 per share from $1.5 billion or $0.52 per share in the year-ago quarter.  Quarterly revenues totaled [...]

Skype suffered a software problem which causes many of its millions of users without service worldwide.  Users from Europe to Latin America were not able to use the popular program to make long-distance calls using their computers.
According to a Skype blog posting, Skype engineers has determined that it’s a software issue, and the problem will [...]

Intel and Symantec are jointly developing security products that could be built into tiny computer microprocessors, according to the Vice President of Symantec, Rowan Trollope. The program is called Project Hood and is part of an initiative by both companies to expand their use of virtualization technology, which involves using software to replicate entire computer [...]