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...European Commission fines are for failures to abide by E.U. rulings - and some cynics warn the company might "accidentally" put bugs in its systems that cause rival browsers to crash. Thomas Vinje, a lawyer for the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a group of technology companies that includes IBM, Nokia, Oracle and Sun, says regulators must keep a close watch over Microsoft to ensure it doesn't drag its feet. "Our emphasis on enforcement is based on years of familiarity with Microsoft's inadequate commitments and broken promises," he says. The European Commission has also warned that the company...
...Tests were conducted to assign U.S. servicemen jobs during the war effort. But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment. It would take until 1936 to develop the first automatic test scanner, a rudimentary computer called the IBM 805. It used electrical current to detect marks made by special pencils on tests, giving rise to the now ubiquitous bubbling-in of answers. (Modern optical scanners opt to use simple No. 2 pencils, as their darker lead is most scanner-friendly...
...English Literature major in college, Alemany said she originally planned to go into law and took a job in the legal department at IBM after graduation...
Tech powers IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and financial firms like American Express and Goldman Sachs control hundreds of such business-method patents for everything from search-engine optimization to risk assessment. And if you have ever bought something on Amazon, you've probably used the company's patented 1-Click ordering process. (See the 50 best websites...
...billionaire hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and 19 others illegally used secret information about public companies to inform investments that yielded some $60 million in profits over the past several years. The defendants, who also include traders, lawyers and executives at firms such as IBM and McKinsey & Co., now face hefty fines and years behind bars. (Read "Arrests Open a Window on Hedge-Fund Culture...