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As billionaire investor Carl Icahn gears up for a proxy fight with Yahoo at its July 3 shareholders' meeting, the question is, can he win? And if he does win, will he be able to persuade Yahoo's jilted suitor, Microsoft, to reconsider its acquisition bid?

Roll out of bed, put on a pot of coffee, and stumble over to your desk to check your phone and e-mail messages, all while still in your pajamas. While this might be some people's idea of telecommuting, it is not an approach destined for success, according to the experts.

Time Warner plans to split up the Internet access and audience businesses of its AOL segment to run them each independently, Time Warner CEO and President Jeff Bewkes revealed Wednesday.

AOL will lay off about 2,000 employees, or approximately 20 percent of its staff, as it continues its transformation into an online, ad-supported business and moves further away from its traditional revenue model based on dial-up Internet access fees.

Time Warner wants AOL to complete successfully its transition to an ad-supported business, and isn't mulling "structural" changes to it, such as selling it or spinning it off, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons said Tuesday.

In a bid to retrieve information more quickly, multinational engineering company Parsons Brinckeroff has completely eliminated tape from its storage environment.

Prior to 2001, IT governance was a foreign concept at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Business unit leaders decided which IT projects to fund without documenting their requirements or drawing much input from the IT organization. The IT department was expected to support all new applications that were introduced, and modifications to systems were communicated to the IT staff very informally.

Professional services firm WorleyParsons has standardized its hardware environment in a global deployment that was initiated in Australia.

Someone ought to be hopping-up-and-down mad about this "domain-kiting" nonsense -- someone other than GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons, who has done his fair share of hopping.

The registry for the new .eu domain has grown to 1.4 million Web addresses since Friday morning -- but one registrar has accused the group that runs it of inept organization, allowing companies to cheat the system by setting up bogus registrars to work on their behalf.

Makers of new blue laser optical disk technology said this week that they have their sights firmly set on enterprise archiving applications currently handled by magnetic tape and even some nearline disk storage arrays.