Stories about: Philip Morris

Australian IT professionals are spending more time beefing up their sales skills and less time fine-tuning their tech talent in a bid to gain a competitive edge in today's market.

Not all leadership qualities are ingrained at birth. You can learn some of them. But it helps if you want to lead and are willing to listen.

SAP is buying its way into providing on-demand supplier relationship management (SRM) software through the planned all-cash purchase of Frictionless Commerce announced Wednesday.

More than 64 computer programmers from 19 countries gathered in Las Vegas last week for the 2006 TopCoder Open, a competition where developers go head-to-head to solve a complex algorithmic problem, design an application or develop a software component for $US150,000 in cash prizes.

Driven by million-dollar fines, businesses are using technology to comply with legal land regulatory requirements - and regain control over electronic records.

It's a familiar job description: Make past IT investments pay. Cut spending. Meet user demands. Then do it again. What's a CIO to do? James Noble, vice president and CIO at Philip Morris Companies Inc., put it another way: "How can you be innovative and increase productivity when you're just keeping the lights on?" he asked at a recent Society for Information Management CIO Forum in New York City.

IBM has doubled the size of a pre-certified cluster of Unix servers that it offers users to help them save space and cut down on management costs, the company announced Friday.

Microsoft has hired trial lawyer Dan K. Webb to represent it in the remedy phase of the U.S. government's landmark antitrust case against it, the Washington Post newspaper reported Thursday.

SAP AG is using its Sapphire 2001 user conference here to try to prove that it's a viable vendor of customer relationship management (CRM) applications.

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, with tech stocks carving out new lows for the year, as Wall Street again was spooked by the raging battle for the White House and worries about dwindling high-technology profit growth.

Looking to add technical spice to its operations, business-to-business exchange Foodtrader.com Tuesday announced that former Kraft Foods International CIO Nicholas Maturo is being brought in to work as chief operating officer of the Internet-based marketplace for food and agricultural companies.