Tag archive: Monday

While one of the biggest brick and mortar retail shopping days of the year is Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), what is coming to be known as one of the biggest virtual shopping days of the year happens the following Monday. Called Cyber Monday by Shop.org, an association for retailers online, 77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving. This is… Read More

“The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Boise, claims that the misclassification denied benefits such as health insurance, vacation and sick leave, and retirement plans to more than3,000 HP workers throughout the United States. The suit seeks more than $300 million in damages. The 33 named plaintiffs, most from the company's Boise plant, claim they qualify as employees instead of contractors under a questionnaire used… Read More

The presidents of the two companies will give a news conference Monday detailing the agreement, both sides said Monday. South Korean manufacturers are turning up the heat with increased plasma panel production. As a result margins are shrinking and the Japanese electronics manufacturers have to find new ways to be profitable. Hitachi announced last week that they would be buying technology from rival Fujitsu and taking an 80… Read More

On Monday, Yahoo Inc. launched Internet radio and other new services around its messaging software. Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, is leveraging IM as a subscription gaming hub, while America Online Inc. is packaging weather. “They are becoming much more of a destination as opposed to just a communications front-end,” Rob Enderle, an independent analyst in San Jose, Calif., said of instant-messaging services. “They… Read More

Lindows said Monday that U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour had granted it an expedited hearing for a motion seeking to stop Microsoft from suing the company abroad until the case had been decided in the U.S. and to declare an Amsterdam judge's preliminary injunction against it as unenforceable and non-recognizable. Read the full story at IT World.

Sober.D, discovered on Monday, is technically similar to its previous incarnation as Sober.C, where it used its own SMTP engine to send copies of itself to e-mail addresses found on infected systems. But the latest version displays fake Microsoft warnings and error messages. Read more at CNET News.com.

Texas Instruments on Monday said it will unveil digital radio technology it says will allow it to combine multiple cellular phone functions into one digital chip by the end of this year. Read the whole story at Yahoo! news. Read Texas Instruments' press release here.