The News Review:
- Should federal government go open source?
- IBM Helps Businesses Consumers Weather the Storm With Cost …
- Software glitch sends Staten Island Google maps users on a major …
- Geithner Links Woes to Tax Software Used by 18 Million Americans
- VeriSign to Buy Security Software Maker Certicom
Should federal government go open source?
ZDNet
Imagine that: a president who has heard of open source software. And McNealy will report just how large those benefits are. It’s intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary software. pen source does not require you to pay a penny to Microsoft or IBM or racle or any proprietary vendor any money.
IBM Helps Businesses Consumers Weather the Storm With Cost …
FXBusiness
Designed to help small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) reduce the time and money associated with deploying and managing IT solutions IBM Lotus Foundations Start 1. 1 and a new offering Lotus Foundations Branch ffice were unveiled today at Lotusphere. Lotus Foundations is IBM’s hardware and software solution that helps businesses from 5 – 500 employees collaborate with tools like email office applications file sharing back up and recovery. The latest version of Lotus Foundations Start allows customers to take advantage of existing IT investments by providing the ability to run Microsoft Windows applications within a Lotus Foundations environment. Previously announced as a pilot program with VMware this new capability will give customers the ability to run IBM Lotus Domino Windows and native Linux applications. Many large organizations running Lotus Domino such as banks professional services firms and insurance agencies have significant portions of their businesses in branch offices without on-site IT. With Lotus Foundations Branch ffice large enterprise Lotus Domino customers will be able to extend existing skills and data to remote offices quickly and efficiently.
Software glitch sends Staten Island Google maps users on a major …
New York Daily News NY
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Geithner Links Woes to Tax Software Used by 18 Million Americans
FXNews
Treasury and spearhead America’s recovery from its financial crisis is well on his way to being confirmed after the Senate Finance Committee voted 18-5 Thursday to forward his nomination to the full Senate. But the endorsement came only after he underwent embarrassing scrutiny for his failure to pay all of his income taxes in 2001 and 2002 — a mistake he blamed on an easy-to-use computer income tax program used by 18 million taxpayers a year. Geithner said he used the popular software program TurboTax to complete his income tax forms in those two years and he failed to include self-employment taxes in his federal returns. He said that to his recollection the program did not prompt him to report income and pay self-employment taxes. “I mistakenly believed that I was meeting my obligations fully including self-employment taxes but I did not prepare my returns in a way that caught that mistake initially” Geithner told the committee adding “these are my responsibility not the tax software responsibility. “But TurboTax itself says the program is designed for average taxpayers and prompts everyone to report any additional income or wages earned through self-employment. “The way TurboTax works we ask you your personal information up front” and “walk you down an interview path that asks you the source of your income” said Scott Gulbransen a spokesman for TurboTax.
VeriSign to Buy Security Software Maker Certicom
Bloomberg
23 (Bloomberg) — VeriSign Inc. the largest manager ofcomputers that direct Internet traffic agreed to buy security-software maker Certicom Corp. three days after Research In MotionLtd. VeriSign will buy all of Certicom?s outstanding stock forC$2. 10 a share or C$92 million ($73 million) the companies saidtoday in a statement.