Project Management

Henning Kagermann, chief executive officer (CEO) of business software maker SAP AG, is expected to renew his contract for another year after it expires in December 2007, according to a source familiar with the situation.

A second U.S.-German group of investors, led by Sentex Sensing Technologies Inc., plans to make an offer for insolvent mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG, following a bid by a rival group of American-German investors, Sentex said Monday.

Vodafone Group PLC

I just finished reading a McKinsey & Co. report that made me feel like I should be seeing rainbows and hearing choirs of angels singing. The 2005 report

Symantec is keeping the Veritas name for its line of data centre management products, much as it has with its Norton line of Internet security tools, and is building what it calls its data centre foundation on four product areas: Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Server Foundation and Veritas Application Performance Management (APM).

Google Inc. plans to announce an investment in Xunlei Networking Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese peer-to-peer file sharing Web site, the China Daily reported on its Web site Thursday.

This year hiring executives will pluck people with the strongest combination of technical and business prowess. Essentially, CIOs are looking for the "Renaissance" IT professional. Computerworld

At a time when many companies are optimistic about the economy, even those with the sunniest outlook have adopted a conservative approach to technology spending, says a Forrester Research analyst.