http://www.icma2002.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:10:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Ben Worthen Microsoft wasn’t the only tech company to have a time-related incident at the end of the year: As midnight approached on December 31, server computers running some versions of Oracle’s software rebooted on their own. While Microsoft’s Zune crashed because the music player’s software didn’t account properly for the ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/%e2%80%9cleap-second%e2%80%9d-hits-oracle/ By Jessica E. Vascellaro The odds that President-elect Obama will turn to Silicon Valley to select the nation’s first chief technology officer appear to be dimming. At least that’s the feeling among the Valley’s political insiders who just a few months ago were jazzed by the prospect that the soon-to-be president might ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/the-nation%e2%80%99s-cto-not-from-silicon-valley/ By Emily Steel Kevin Conroy, executive vice president of products and marketing at AOL, is leaving the company after eight years to become president of interactive media at Univision. Conroy Mr. Conroy, who joined AOL shortly after its merger with Time Warner, is the second marketing chief to leave AOL since last spring. ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/aol-exec-departs-for-univision/ By William M. Bulkeley VMware named Tod Nielsen, the president and chief executive of Borland Software, to the newly created role of chief operating officer, bringing in another experienced software executive at a high level. The hiring is part of a continuing effort by VMware and its parent EMC to bolster management ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/vmware-taps-borland-ceo/ Eric Kim, Intel’s chief ambassador to the Consumer Electronics Show and the gadget industry generally, is not quite ready to cheer that TV makers are starting to put networking connections into new sets. Yes, the trend will help consumers get some Internet content to their TVs. But it’s not enough, ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/intel-your-tv-needs-the-%e2%80%9cfull-internet%e2%80%9d/ You might be familiar with phishing attacks, those messages sent by criminals that look like they’re from a bank or Nigerian prince. But what about Twishing? Rick Sanchez is not really on crack The term may enter the tech lexicon this week, thanks to an attack targeting the Web site Twitter, which ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/twitter-off-to-a-rough-2009/ Steve Jobs explains in a letter today that his weight loss is due to a hormone imbalance. Jobs The statement, writes the WSJ’s Yukari Iwatani Kane, is intended to settle some of the questions about the Apple CEO’s health. Mr. Jobs, a cancer survivor, has been visibly slimmer in recent appearances, and ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/on-steve-jobs%e2%80%99s-health-statement/ No retail category had a great Christmas, but e-commerce players have some reason to gloat over their brick-and-mortar counterparts: In certain key holiday categories, online sales outperformed offline retail sales, according to market research firm comScore. ComScore compared results from its research to data from MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, which is often ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/and-the-bragging-rights-go-to-internet-retailers/ Once again, Santa was good to Internet companies.   Social networking site Facebook achieved its highest-ever U.S. traffic day on Christmas Eve, according to market research firm Hitwise. Traffic to Facebook jumped 41% from the same day in 2007 and accounted for 2.2% of all US Internet visits. MySpace and Yahoo Mail ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/foul-weather-is-friend-to-facebook/ Intel has never been much associated with glitz. The chip maker, after all, essentially sells high-tech widgets that few people think much about these days. But nearly everybody at times has a question or a complaint about PCs–the inspiration for an Intel-sponsored Web site that plans to add to the ... http://www.icma2002.com/2009/01/intel%e2%80%99s-pccom-site-steps-into-vegas-spotlight/