Stories about: PaineWebber

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Insider threat looms as San Francisco crisis plays out 17 July, 2008 07:54

The unfolding cliffhanger in San Francisco this week -- in which a city network administrator has been arrested for allegedly holding the network hostage -- represents an extreme example of the insider threat that IT security vendors and others have been sounding the alarm about for years.
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Unix admin pleads guilty to planting logic bomb 22 September, 2007 05:55

A former Unix system administrator at Medco Health Solutions' New Jersey office has pleaded guilty in the US federal court to attempting to sabotage critical data, including individual prescription drug data, on more than 70 servers.
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Financial services sector strengthens criminal defences 19 June, 2002 10:13

Australian financial services companies are supporting a Wall Street initiative to develop a customer database to help the industry in screening out suspected criminal activity.
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IBM and Vignette to expand alliance 15 June, 2001 08:03

IBM and Vignette on Thursday plan to expand a 10-month-old partnership that integrated Vignette's V/5 e-business applications with IBM's WebSphere platform.
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Apple Drops Shocker, Warning of Lower Q4 Profits 30 September, 2000 12:01

To say that Apple Computer shocked Wall Street analysts and investors by warning late last week that earnings in its fourth fiscal quarter will be well below expectations would be a major understatement. Apple's stock plummeted 40 per cent Thursday night in after-hours trading following the announcement by the company that profits in the three-month period ending Saturday will be "substantially below" earlier projections because of slow computer sales this month.
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Test-Taking Takes Off in Fiber Optics 09 September, 2000 12:01

Innovation is a great thing, as most people would agree. But there are attendant issues, such as testing and measuring, that must be addressed in order to turn innovation into a viable business. The same is true in the fiber-optic networking business.
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Edward Jones: The Last Not-Com Brokerage 08 August, 2000 12:01

Dan Borgmeier has had it with online trading. A 31-year-old executive at a Minneapolis Internet startup, Borgmeier set up an ETrade Group account in late 1997 and got hooked on trading after raking in $US30,000 from hot tech stocks while paying only $US2,000 in commissions.
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Analysts mixed about IBM's future 17 July, 2000 12:01

OK, let's admit it: The news hasn't exactly been good for companies involved in the mainframe business.
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Pepsi CIO Aims to Join New Economy 08 July, 2000 12:01

Steve Schuckenbrock, who became PepsiCo Inc.'s CIO a little more than two years ago and went on to slash its IT costs by more than $50 million per year, is leaving the snack food and soft drink giant to pursue a yet-to-be-determined dream job in the New Economy.
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Wall Street Rush Hour 07 July, 2000 12:01

Every weekday morning around 8:45, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Inc. comes to life. Traders dart from broker booths to trading specialists, scribbling quotes on tiny pieces of pink paper. The specialists themselves are hard at work too, using specially designed keyboards to scroll through pages of data. This pace crescendos until the bell kicks off trading at 9:30 a.m., when it becomes downright frenetic. Scampers become sprints. Typing becomes flailing. For a few moments, the 3,300 people who live and die on the floor of the world's largest exchange are moving as quickly as humans possibly can.
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Dot-Coms Struggle to Meet Expectations 01 July, 2000 12:01

One weeks ago, on the day an analyst at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. called Amazon.com Inc.'s [Nasdaq:AMZN] credit "weak and deteriorating," its stock plummeted 19%.