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Qualcomm has repurchased and retired approximately 29 million shares of its stock during the last two months for approximately US$1.1 billion under its $3 billion stock repurchase program. Some $1.5 billion worth of shares remain authorized for repurchase in future periods, net of put options outstanding, under the stock repurchase program announced on May 22, 2007...

Several years ago, the only way to obtain an enterprise application was through a long, arduous and expensive system implementation of on-premise software -- and oftentimes, after all the hard work, the project would still quietly be considered a failure ...

A group of New York City taxi drivers say they are going to strike for at least two days in September to protest a regulation calling for all city cabs to be equipped with GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking technology ...

MTV and MySpace are partnering to give voters greater access to the politicians running for U.S. president in 2008. They plan to hold a total of 11 hour-long dialogues from September through December, held on college campuses nationwide ...

Employers are denying a growing number of workers access toFacebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the Sophos Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer ...

Avaya has made a significant upgrade in three self-service offerings that it introduced at the beginning of last year ...

MTV and RealNetworks have formed a joint venture that will utilizeVerizon Wireless' distribution capabilities in an effort to dislodge Apple's vise-like grip on the online music space ...

Sage Software released a new version of its long-standing ACT! application -- a release timed to coincide with the application's 20th anniversary ...

Skype said that a Microsoft patch downloaded on Patch Tuesday triggered a bug in its software that eventually resulted in the IP (Internet Protocol)-based service going dark for nearly two days ...

Dell and SAP are collaborating to offer retailers an easier way to buy computer hardware and SAP for Retail. It is offering hardware certified to be used on SAP for Retail, specifically, Dell's Retail OptiPlex 745 POS systems and Dell PowerEdge servers ...

Sony has partnered with a U.S. waste management company to provide customers with an easy way to recycle their old TV sets and other Sony-branded products. The Japanese firm has tappedWM Recycle America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, for the Sony Take Back Recycling Program ...

Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer Salesforce.com exceeded analyst expectations for its second quarter, registering net income of US$3.74 million -- a 3 cent per share increase -- and revenue of $176.6 million. The Street had been expecting it to bring in just $174 million in sales ...

Microsoft has fixed six critical and three important desktop application vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday release ...

A few days after a federal judge doubled to US$39.3 million the damages Qualcomm would have to pay for infringing the patents of rival Broadcom, Lou Lupin gave up his posts as general counsel and executive vice president for the beleaguered firm. Carol Lam, senior vice president and legal counsel, will serve as acting general counsel while the company searches for a permanent replacement...

Google may be No. 1 in terms of overall usage of its search engines, based on a number of recent surveys. However, it appears to be falling short in one very important, non-tech metric: customer satisfaction ...

IBM upgraded the functionality in its RFID (radio frequency identification) technology tailored for the pharmaceutical industry that it introduced in December ...

ReachForce, an on-demand provider of marketing databases, is making the jump into a related software niche ...

A group of hackers infiltrated the United Nations' Web site over the weekend, defacing the page of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with antiwar political graffiti ...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites ...

IBM and Linux distributor Novell are strengthening their partnership in order to encourage cross-adoption of their respective platforms and products, especially in the small to medium-sized business space ...