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  • Start-up employees: Read the fine print

    You've worked at the company since it was five engineers in a garage. You've put your social life on hold, and you've given 100 percent since day one. Finally, the company is getting off the ground. You hold options, so if the company gets acquired, you'll get a big payoff. Not necessarily.

  • Pacnet bidding for AAPT: report

    Asia-Pacific telco Pacnet has offered Telecom New Zealand US$420 million for its Australian subsidiary AAPT, according to Reuters.

  • eBay lays off 1,000 as it acquires

    eBay will lay off about 10 per cent of its workforce, the company announced Monday in the US, and said third-quarter results will come in at the low end of expectations.

  • PC Tools to be poor man's Norton

    Computer security giant Symantec this week said it would not integrate the software of recent acquisition PC Tools into its mainstream Norton suite, instead using the products as its low-cost option for countries such as India and China.

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    It is unfortunate that it took the current stock market debacle to refocus investor outrage on the gross inequity of options accounting.

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    This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.

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    AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.

  • Dell Optiplex 755

    The Dell Optiplex 755 boasts strong performance for office demands in an attractive and convenient package.

  • Adobe to take Photoshop online

    Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.

  • McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007

    Despite the interface redesign, the McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 feels like a grab bag of security and system performance tools. It'll keep your PC safe, but we think there are other products on the market that do so with greater ease.

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