Protecting the Earth and the bottom line

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News: Protecting the Earth and the bottom line
News: RIM finally breaks silence on BlackBerry outage
News: EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger
News: Mobile phone sales to slow in 2007, says IDC
News: Google buys Marratech video conferencing company
News: SAP first-quarter profit climbs 10 percent
ITwhirled: UFOs invade Canada



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Protecting the Earth and the bottom line
As the 27th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on Sunday, more companies are realizing that embracing energy conservation is good business, not just good public relations. "It's not just about pictures of little kids holding balloons, running across green fields," said Larry Vertal, senior strategist in microprocessors at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which hosted an energy summit at its Sunnyvale, California, headquarters on April 9.


RIM finally breaks silence on BlackBerry outage
The addition of a new software routine caused the multi-hour failure of Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry messaging service in North America earlier this week, the company said Friday.


EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger
Three U.S. online civil rights groups have filed a complaint asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Google Inc.'s planned US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. unless the company agrees to stop tracking its users.


Mobile phone sales to slow in 2007, says IDC
Global sales of mobile phones, while still buoyant, are growing at a slower rate as the market for first-time owners shrinks, according to market research released Friday by IDC.


Google buys Marratech video conferencing company
Google Inc. has bought Marratech AB, a Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools.


SAP first-quarter profit climbs 10 percent
SAP AG has posted its financial results following a turbulent quarter for the company, reporting a 10 percent jump in profit on increased sales of its software and support services.


ITWHIRLED

UFOs invade Canada
Do aliens beings from beyond our solar system have a thing for ice hockey? Poutine? Bryan Adams and/or Alanis Morissette? It's impossible to know exactly what is going on in their pulsing, veiny, oversized skulls, but 736 of their spacecraft were spotted flying above the Great White North in 2006.