Hitachi Recalls 16K Batteries Red Herring - Hitachi became the latest laptop computer vendor to announce a recall of its Sony-made batteries Friday, announcing it would recall 16,000 lithium-ion battery packs.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp. said on Tuesday its executive chairman, Tim Donahue, will retire at the end of the year, the second high-level official to leave the company this year.

Most of the processing of business applications running today are executed in an asynchronous non-realtime batch mode. To oversee those jobs, companies employ operators and depend on job schedulers and scripts to execute complex systems. However, scriptin...