Restructuring costs cramp company coffers

Symantec closed fiscal 2007 with fourth quarter profit plummeting 49 per cent from the period a year earlier, but beating analyst expectations with a five per cent increase in revenue.

Planning a vacation. Coordinating relief efforts after a disaster. Running a business. Getting things done takes a lot of human effort. That may change if Charles Petrie, a senior research scientist in the Stanford Logic Group of the Computer Science Department, has his way. Petrie wants to create software to enable computers to negotiate with each other over the Internet to achieve goals that now require human time and toil.

Here we go again

Where Dell 1.0 had Red Hat, Dell 2.0 sports Ubuntu. Can you really tell the difference?