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...result of this decision, it may also ultimately hurt Microsoft’s market share. The firm’s few competitors in the operating system market, most notably Apple’s OS X, have been gaining ground in recent months . The scrappy Cupertino-based consumer electronics firm has seen a substantial increase in laptop sales, and has even released a series of advertisements poking fun at Vista’s more intrusive features, such as User Account Control . In these ways, Vista’s shortcomings may have been contributing to Microsoft’s market share loss...
...Despite being wooed heavily by both the Obama and Clinton camps, nearly half of the 40 House members and six of the eight Senators are still undecided. Some may still be holding out for promises, some are just slow in the deliberative process and some have made a firm choice to not decide...
...will discuss India’s global presence in fields like healthcare, private equity, media and entertainment, and energy. The two keynote speakers for the conference—whose sponsors include the Tata Group and Goldman Sachs—will be Vivek Paul, a partner at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, and Alan Rosling, executive director of Tata Sons. The organizers of the conference said they hope the panels will bring to light available prospects of the Indian private sector, as well as the challenges India will face as it moves forward. “India has attracted...
...Chemical fertilizers and pesticides can damage the land as well. But xeriscaping (pronounced zeer-i-skay-ping), a term that means "dry landscaping," is becoming increasingly popular. "We're getting the message that homeowners aren't interested in environmentally irresponsible things," says Joel Lerner, founder of Maryland-based landscaping firm Environmental Design. Here's how you can have a garden that's green?in both senses of the word...
...other information,” Moriarty said. “We’ve basically decided to proceed as a conservative measure with notifying the individuals who have been impacted and lining up the [identity theft] services for those individuals.” The University has contracted the security firm Kroll Inc. to offer identity protection services, including credit reports and setting up fraud alerts. The hacker made a portion of the server’s contents available for download through a popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing site, “The Pirate Bay,” where...