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Presents a study on the financial challenges faced by chief executive officer Rob DeRhodes, chief information officer of Convince Home Depot Inc., due to the decision of board of directors to disable the outsourcing plan of home improvement's information technology (IT)operations in the U.S. Reliance of companies on IT to run their businesses; Importance of the IT on corporate governance; Quality of a company's financial reporting. INSET: THE UPSHOT.

Focuses on the deployment of a storage management software from OSI Software Inc. to Millennium Chemicals Inc. Replacement of Excel spreadsheets used for recording and sharing manufacturing data in monthly reports; Demand of business technology managers for greater control over data; Importance of storage in providing real-time information.

Focuses on the impact of reports from analyst firms on the companies. Expenditures of the companies on the analyst firms; Reaction of the survey respondents on the product and technology advice of firms; Suspicions on favoritism.

The editor comments on the false reports presented by various business enterprises for reasons, including predicting losses due to piracy, business forecast or for estimating future profits. He discusses a study on piracy conducted by the Business Software Alliance and mentions that exaggerated amount of losses caused by piracy is put forward to gain funding for the cybersecurity efforts of business. Also, he comments on prediction for the commercial success for Google Glass by Google Inc.

Presents a corporate profile of Virgin Mobile USA LLC, a company engaged in mobile phone-business. Executive management; Corporate history; Company operations; Management scheme.

The article focuses on the extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard, which is expected to revolutionize the production and use of business reports across industries in the U.S. by XBRL International. This is designed to increase accuracy, improve readability and reduce overhead associated with report production. The system's use has been widely accepted by both the corporate and regulatory communities. Through both voluntary and mandated use, the standard will improve under the leadership of organizations such as XBRL International. The decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005 to nudge companies toward XBRL has helped the language gain greater visibility in financial circles.

This section offers news briefs on various medical issues in the U.S. The U.S. Bone and Joint Decade (USBJD) released results of the report "The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States (BMUS)." Subsidiaries of Zimmer Holdings have agreed to acquire the Abbott Spine business from Abbott. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the increasing demand for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other rehabilitation professionals will continue through 2016.

The article focuses on the concerns over the loss of the market share of Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. in its wireless baseband chip business in the U.S. Some observers are wondering whether the company can regain its position in the segment after facing heavy competition in the baseband market during 2007. On the other hand, TI is poised to make a rebound and remain a major player in the baseband chip market through its new chip line.

Focuses on the financial performance of the Society of Plastics Engineers. Strength in financial position; Earnings for the year 2003; Failure of the SPE to return rebates.

Provides an approach to present bad news in a report about a product into good news. Efforts in support of the product; Sayings from financial geniuses; Main statements written on the product.

Focuses on the importance of performance reports in information technology (IT) departments. Risks of IT departments that cannot prove their value run; Approach for building an enterprise reporting structure; Functions of reporting tools. INSETS: IT departments on report;IT's new strategic roles.

The article reports developments in Nordic Semiconductor ASA. Nordic has launched its nRF24AP2 ANT transceivers which features ultra low power wireless current consumption. The company has presented its corporate report in the second quarter of 2009 wherein it achieved its highest operating income in sales and profits. Moreover, Nordic has appointed Robert Glori as chief financial officer (CFO) and tasked create business strategy and operation in the company.

The article presents a corporate profile of Belmont, California-based software company Vyatta Inc. The company is the maker of VC4 network operating system, Vyatta 514, and Vyatta Dell 860 network appliances. It was founded by Allan Leinward and its chief executive officer is Kelly Herrell. Some of the investors of Vyatta include ArrowPath Venture Partners, Panorama Capital, and Velocity Interactive Group.

The article focuses on the financial performance of Austriamicrosystems AG, a manufacturer of high performance analog integrated circuits for global markets. Sixty percent of the company's income comes from the production of application-specific integrated circuits, and it has built a portfolio of 150 standard products. For the first quarter of 2007, the company reported an increase in its consolidated group revenue to roughly $ 53.3 million from $ 52.4 million in the first quarter of 2006.

The article reports on the financial performance of VMWare Corp. The company had a 101 percent quarterly sales growth rate in the previous year. Meanwhile, EMC, will sell 10 percent of VMware, led by president Diane Green, in a public offering by early summer in 2007. VMWare, at present, is the leade4r in the virtualization segment in the computer industry.

The article profiles PayPerPost, a company that runs marketplace that connect advertisers together with consumer content generators. Ted Murphy is the founder and CEO of the company. The company provides services to company with a product or service to advertise registers. It points out that the company really cheapens the medium and the power of the Internet.

The article reports that maker of wireless devices, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) has strong preliminary second-quarter results. After the launch of new products by RIM, the company foresees strong growth during its next quarter. Stock of RIM jumped almost 20% on September 29 after the positive earnings news and continued to gain ground through October 4.

The article reports on the financial performance of Red Hat. Of all the Disruptive Technology Portfolio companies, Red Hat showed the biggest change. The report revealed a sequential decline in billings, affecting Red Hat's cash flow. The company explained that internal issues caused sales disruption, changes in the sales organization in the Asia-Pacific region and a shift toward annual billing for multiyear deals.

The article offers global news briefs related to information technology. Mozilla Corp. has released the first beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser. Infosys Technologies Ltd., an outsourcer in India, reported a 39% increase in revenue and a 43% improvement in net income for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2006. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned against the occurrence of online employment scams.

The article presents information on the developments in the IT industry. Data broker ChoicePoint Inc. took a $6 million charge in its second quarter to cover costs for selling more than 145,000 consumer records to scam artists, the company reported in its financial statement last week. That $6 million is in addition to $5.4 million the company detailed in the first quarter as costs related to the data problem. Police in Brazil arrested a gang of drug dealers using Google's Orkut social-networking site to support the sale of ecstasy and marijuana, Reuters reported last week.

The article presents information on an announcement made by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) regarding the pay raises for executives in the year 2005. The announcement was made at IBM's annual stockholders meeting. According to the announcement IBM would freeze the pay raises for the executives for the year 2005 on the basis of weak first-quarter results. IBM officials said the company will undergo a sizeable restructuring to boost financial performance but they've yet to provide details. UBS analyst Benjamin Reitzes believes the company will ax about 10,000 positions from a global workforce of 330,000. However, Reitzes says he doesn't expect IBM to sell any business units.

Reports on the financial performance of Arburg, an injection molding machine maker in Hossburg, Germany, in 2004. Return on the investments made in 2000 on higher clamp-force mechanisms and in increasing automation production; Market share of Arburg in Germany's home market; Highlights of the open house held by Arburg.

Reports on the overall financial performance of business-intelligence software vendor Cognos Inc. for the fourth quarter ended February 28, 2005. Percentage sales earned; Increase in the license sales of the company's ReportNet reporting and analysis tool; Number of contracts signed by the company.

Reports on the debut of a systems by Tibco Software Inc. and Protiviti Inc. to help companies comply with the financial reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the U.S. Use of the computer software to document, test, assess and monitor internal controls over financial reporting; Reduction of the cost of compliance and enhancement of business performance; Information on the requirements of the accounting legislation.

Reports that information technology services company EDS has delayed the release of its third-quarter earnings for 2004 for the second time. Problem on whether to write off certain assets related to contracts to build an intranet for the United States Navy and Marine Corps; Recommendations by auditor KPMG concerning the internal audit of bonus plans.

Reports on the move of the International Business Machines Corp. in launching the Global Business Security Index, intended to give customers an intelligence service in regards to security attacks and business threats in the U.S. Collection of monthly report based on data from a monitored devices and security sensors; Capability to track other threats to corporate security; Price of the product.

Reports on the combined Series A venture and seed financing of Andrew Foss for Swan Labs Inc. Companies participated in seed funding; Operations of the company; Financial performance of the company.

Reports on the positive outlook through 2005 presented by Microsoft Corp. during its 2004 annual meeting for financial analysts. Financial performance for fiscal 2004; Predicted continued growth in each of the company's seven business segments; Plans to release server and operating system products; Plan to ramp up patent-filing and intellectual property licensing efforts; Demonstration of a data search engine.

Reports on the possibility of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowing financial statement filings to be submitted using the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an XML-based markup language for tagging data in financial statements. Standard that eliminates duplication in preparing documents in different formats.

Presents a corporate profile of Computer Associates Inc., a software vendor company in the U.S. Corporate history; Company operations; Plans of the company to roll out its Enterprise Infrastructure Management strategy; Executive management; Management scheme.

Presents a corporate profile of IHOP Corp., a company designed to speed development of franchised restaurants by automating management of routine business processes. Corporate history; Company operations; Management scheme.

Reports on the schedule of Salesforce.com Inc.'s initial public offering in the U.S.

Reports on the financial performance of Siebel Systems Inc. for the first quarter of 2004. Revenue expected by the company; Sales performance of Siebel Systems; Factors contributing to the performance of the company.

Reports on the corporate reorganizations of leading personal computer vendor Dell. Challenges faced by the company as it revamps a blade-server strategy; Plans of Dell to deliver a new generation of blade servers with standardized components; Financial performance of the company.

Reports on the financial performance of International Business Machines Corp. in its four-quarter and year-end earnings report in the U.S. Estimation of the total increase of information technology spending; Increase of the net income of the company; Improvement of the information technology buying environment.

Reports on the contribution of the reporting software from Actuate Corp. in creating and delivering the electronic reports of Sabre Holdings Corp. worldwide. Automation of the process of creating and revising audit reports about ticket-sales activity and payments; Move of Sabre to support the Actuate system.

Reports on Intel Corporation's annual financial report for 1998. Operating profit reported by the company; Implication of Intel's accounting report.

Discusses the implication of the poor second quarter reports for 1998 of Motorola Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc. for personal computers, communication systems and the semiconductors market. Percentage decreased in chip sales for 1998; Reason behind the net losses posted by Motorola and AMD.

Presents corporate news on United States electronics firms during the last week of August 1997. Stock split of Level One Communications Incorporated; Earnings report of Osicom Technologies Incorporated and Catalyst Semiconductor Incorporated; Stock split of Yahoo! Incorporated.

Features Actuate Software Corporation and its enterprise reporting softwares. Background information on the company; Reason behind the difficulties of reporting requirements for enterprise; Description of an ideal enterprise reporting product.

Focuses on the translation of EDS' Web-based version of its 1996 annual report into nine languages. Importance of translating the report into different languages; How IBM and Internet have taken a step beyond what EDS has done; YAR communications, multicultural brand management firm which does the EDS translations.

Features the design of Adaptec Inc.'s 1996 annual report. Simplicity of the report; Use of colorful graphics.

Discusses annual reports. The importance of understanding the primary audience of an annual report; The apparent lack of commitment to long-range strategic planning among technologists; Five key elements to an annual report; The effective information technology manager.

The article reports that Texas Instruments Inc.'s (TI) first quarter financial results in 2008 reflect that analog semiconductors will be the most important growth driver in the years ahead. It also adds that overall, TI revenue in the first quarter of 2008 was $3.27 billion, up three percent from the first quarter of 2008. Analysts say that in the long term, TI continues to see significant opportunity in the analog market with a target market size at around $37 billion.

The article reports on the delisting notice issued by Nasdaq stock market to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. The company received a notice from Nasdaq following its late filing of annual report on Form 10-K to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the fiscal year ended January 27, 2007. Marvel also received similar notice in December and September 2006 due to delayed SEC filing.

The article discusses the potential of fixed-mobile convergence to address the issue of overspending on mobile phone services of employees of business enterprises. This trend enables companies to eliminate expense reports in auditing employees' use of mobile phones through private branch exchanges. A survey conducted by In-Stat showed that corporations pay higher rates on mobile services of employees who submit reports of business calls that are made on their personal mobile units. This suggests that companies would be able to reduce their expenses if they would pay employees' bill rather than wait for the expense reports to be completed and reviewed.

The article focuses on the McAfee Inc.'s Mobile Security Report 2007 concerning mobile virus threats in the U.S. The report is said to be focusing on mobile operators who reported incidents affecting 100,001 to 1 million devices in 2006. Meanwhile, a study has proven three times that operators reported no devices affected at all. Thus, it is inferred that such problem is still miniscule. Moreover, the report is said to have been released 11 days after the launch of the McAfee security solution for mobile operators.

The article reports on the financial performance of United Microelectronics Corp. for January 2007. It reported its unaudited net sales for the month, posting revenues of US$250.12 million, down 1.62 percent from its December 2006 sales and down 2.03 percent from its January 2006 sales. The company also posted US$279 million in sales in September 2006, nearly 2 percent lower than its August numbers. All of that added up to a less than stellar 2006 fourth quarter for the foundry.

This article reports on a class action lawsuit that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) solutions provider Alvarion Ltd. The complaint alleged that in public statements regarding its business with an unidentified customer that accounted for significant revenues during 2004, Alvarion failed to state that sales to the customer would not continue to provide substantial revenues to the company.

This article reports on the slump in the financial results that was posted by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) for the fourth quarter of 2006. The operating loss of the company amounted to $527 million. The revenues of AMD increased to 34 percent sequentially and 31 percent year-over-year to $1.77 billion.