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...Sending a Message Thirteen E.U. countries agreed to greater cross-border cooperation in the battle against "spam" e-mails. Meanwhile, Pfizer joined with Microsoft to file suits against two spam operations accused of selling illegal versions of the drug company's Viagra...
...come to think of your computer as a digital version of the couch that swallowed your car keys - with photos, songs and travel plans all buried in hard-to-reach places - a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL - have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel...
...fueled by rising stock prices--and the loads of cash piling up on corporate balance sheets. The S&P 500 is up 40% from its 2002 low, and companies in the index are sitting on $2.3 trillion in cash. Writing dividend checks is one way to spend the largesse. Microsoft paid $32 billion in dividends last year, and dividends are expected to rise 10% on average this year. Many executives, though, are cracking open the piggy bank and looking for acquisition targets. P&G, for instance, is using its stock to acquire Gillette, but it also plans to spend...
...obstacle, according to Gartner analyst Iyengar. "Indians tend to be less security sensitive than the clients," he says. "It's quite common for Indians to share salary information with each other. In the U.S., this is absolute heresy." At wholly owned research centers, like those run by Intel and Microsoft, security is less of a concern, says Stefan Spohr, a vice president at consulting firm A.T. Kearney. "You build firewalls. You educate your employees. It's really no different than...
...goes global, other countries are also attracting attention, most notably China. Of the more than 200 foreign companies with research facilities in China, a handful are doing substantive research. About a month before Microsoft made a splash with plans to expand its 170-person Beijing research center by 20%, France Telecom announced last June that it would open an R.-and-D. facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large...