Stories about: PepsiCo

A trade group that represents large national advertisers like Ford Motor Co., Sara Lee, Wal-Mart and PepsiCo has sent a letter to the US Department of Justice objecting to a proposed Google-Yahoo search partnership.

Hoover's Wednesday announced that it is launching a business social networking tool that promises to help users find ways to connect with people and establish new relationships.

How bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every sort of meltdown predicted -- more criminalization of the hacker community, more Web-application attacks, more phishing, more spamming, more zero-day attacks and more virtualization-related threats -- we're happy to tell you that you are likely to look back on 2007 as the peaceful old days.

In yet another example showing that clueless consumers aren't the only ones who fall victim to computer scams, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory yesterday disclosed that phishing attacks may have provided cybercrooks with access to personal data on people who visited the lab between 1990 and 2004.

Although virtual environments are still at an early stage in development and adoption, many companies are already dabbling in one or more virtual worlds or closely observing them prior to getting their feet wet.

As the number of virtual environments increases, standards and vendor collaboration will help make teleporting between different worlds a smooth experience, ensuring, for instance, that your avatar arrives in a new world still wearing the clothes it donned in your home world.

Yahoo is schmoozing mobile phone operators at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in the hopes of enlisting partners for its new mobile search services.

Borland Software's surprise decision to spin off, rather than sell, its tools business overshadowed the vendor's appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO).

HP, struggling under a boardroom spying scandal, continues to gain new business and on Wednesday announced that it has signed a seven-year deal with PepsiCo to provide data center management services for the soda and snack maker's international division.

On the morning of April 15, as Sun Microsystems was preparing to announce its quarterly earnings and a major executive management shuffle, the company was hit with a denial of service (DOS) attack that came within four minutes of blocking it from posting the news to the Sun.com Web site on time.

After a rough year of layoffs, lawsuits and lackluster revenue, Electronic Data Systems Corp. officials say the worse is behind them, and plan to grow the company by offering business transformation services led by a management team made up of ex-CIOs.