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Oracle gives Ellison a pay hike
News Measured against the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Software indexes over a five-year period, the stock has underperformed, according to Oracle's SEC filling. Ellison's compensation is appropriate given his "leadership of our long-term growth strategy...
[September 1, 2005, 11:05]
Converter
Downloads Unit CategoriesAccelaration Angle Area -Astronomy Cooking Density Electrical Capacitance Energy/Work Flow Rate (Mass) Flow Rate (Volume) Fluid Force Frequency Hardness Length Light (Illuminance) Light (Luminance) Mass Memory (Computer) Metric...
[July 1, 2005, 8:00]
Google reveals $3m bonus plan
News According to the SEC filling, Google will target the executive bonuses based on an individual's salary and the achievement of certain performance objectives tailored to the person's role in the company.
[February 23, 2005, 10:35]
NiceClock Lite
Downloads Functionality description Installation instead of standard screensaver Processing of exogenous events: voice call, SMS Modification of appearance: full set of skins, support of antialiasing Ability to install external skins (distributed separately...
[June 22, 2005, 8:00]
BT outage cuts City leased lines
News Leased lines provide high-speed, always-on connections to large businesses, and BT's Megastream service can carry high volumes of data and voice traffic over links that vary from 2Mbit/sec -- about four times the speed of standard ADSL lines -- to...
[August 23, 2001, 8:40]
Salesforce aims for $85m from IPO
News When it initially filed its IPO papers in December, the company told the SEC that it hoped to raise $115m. His holdings will be worth $239.5m, based on the high end of the $8.50 pricing range, according to the SEC filing.
[April 21, 2004, 8:35]
Behind the scenes of Oracle-Siebel
News After discussion, the executive committee determined that in the absence of active negotiations, Siebel should terminate discussions with Oracle," according to the SEC filling. Oracle and Siebel, which had held casual discussions in the past about...
[October 25, 2005, 15:40]
RIM execs to pay £50m in backdating settlement
News Those settlement offers are subject to SEC approval. RIM is pleased that the parties have resolved matters with the OSC and looks forward to resolving matters with the SEC," John Richardson, RIM's lead director, said in the statement.
[February 9, 2009, 13:34]
Kumar forced to relinquish golden parachute
News Kumar, who is also co-owner of the New York Islanders, a National Hockey League team, along with CA founder Charles Wang, was at the company's helm throughout the period in 2000 and 2001, when it is accused by the SEC of having engaged in a...
[August 2, 2004, 14:50]
Red Hat and Caldera get in the ring Pt II
News Likewise, Caldera is very cautious in its latest SEC filing, stating that the company does not expect to be profitable until at least fiscal 2002. In Red Hat's 17 July 10-Q filing with the SEC, the company concedes that no firm "has built a...
[August 14, 2000, 13:48]
High-end video-conferencing apps vs. quick and dirty web-collaboration apps
Blog Comment Further, bandwidth requirements are not what they used to be and HD is now possible at approximately 1 MB/sec. DVD quality can be achieved at about 500 KB/sec. Telepresence has rapidly grown in popularity because c-level execs like to look each...
[December 19, 2008, 16:18]
IDT touts 10 cent US telephony
News Through 1997, IDT plans to crunch the current 10.4Kbits/sec voice bandwidth to 3.4Kbits/sec, enabling better audio quality and less delay. Net2Phone allows any Net user to make full-duplex calls to anywhere in the US from 10 cents (about six pence...
[January 7, 1997, 11:19]
Nuggets: Storage just got sexy(ish)
News Primary Storage claim maximum transfer rates of 2MB/sec for PC Card file transfer, 1MB/sec for USB and a speedy 10MB/sec for FireWire. Dress it up however you like but let's face it -- disk storage just ainÂ’t sexy, but this miniscule and...
[July 25, 2000, 12:07]
AMD warns investors against mini-tender offer
News The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cautions investors to be wary of such offers. Some bidders make mini-tender offers at below-market prices, hoping that they will catch investors off guard if the investors do not compare the offer...
[October 22, 2007, 9:06]
Toshiba touts Quantum Key Distribution
Blog Toshiba claimed in the statement that "Cambridge Research Labs’ new breakthrough has increased the bit rate of QKD more than a hundred fold, exceeding 1 Mbit/sec for the first time and allowing ultra-secure networks with thousands of users.
[October 9, 2008, 17:24]
Apple defends Jobs amid strong financial results
News Anderson has already settled with the SEC and admitted no wrongdoing, but took a parting shot at Jobs by stating that he informed Jobs of Apple's accounting duties regarding an early 2001 stock option grant that was not properly recorded.
[April 26, 2007, 9:49]
Google edges closer to IPO
News That means a private company must file quarterly forms with the SEC that disclose operating expenses, profits, partnerships, shareholders and many other details -- a laborious process that can cost as much as $2m annually.
[April 26, 2004, 9:50]
Salesforce.com IPO delayed by accounting questions
News The SEC wants Salesforce to recalculate its financial statements and retroactively apply the new accounting method so that the public has a consistent view of its finances, sources said. The SEC inquiry helped delay the company's IPO, originally...
[April 12, 2004, 10:45]
Nvidia unveils NV20 graphics chip
News The NV20 offers a 9 percent improvement in memory bandwidth, from 7.36GB/sec to 8GB/sec, and a Quake performance improvement of 25 percent. Graphics chipmaker Nvidia today unveiled details of its latest GPU (graphics processing unit), the NV20...
[February 27, 2001, 11:54]
Google faces fight for Gmail
News In one example, Playboy magazine released an issue featuring a lengthy interview with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a media event that could cause the SEC to delay the offering. The company also recently gave details about a...
[August 16, 2004, 9:00]
