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Research In Motion begins the week with one of the biggest hurdles the company has faced behind it, thanks to a US$612.5 million settlement with patent holder NTP, a deal that averted a possible shutdown of the BlackBerry e-mail service in the U.S With more than nearly six years of legal turmoil put to rest, RIM can now focus on the challenge of de...
Three bits of news got me thinking about personal computers last week. The first was the "surprise" announcement from Apple that it was getting into speakers and, yawn, building an Intel-based Mac Mini. The second was Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) settlement with Gateway (NYSE: GTW), and the third was the "secret" Microsoft Origami project, which most got wrong in initial reports...
The aging workforce is becoming a significant concern for technology employers in the U.S., where a third of employees will be aged 50 or older in just four years. Ten years ago, the story was the "graying of Japan," where aging workers were expected to be less productive in their golden years as well That prediction turned out to be true -- and a...
Oracle has staked out ground in the rapidly changing enterprise search industry with the introduction of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone engine that can search databases, file systems, enterprise content management systems, portals, e-mail systems and enterprise applications for internal corporate use Oracle enters as the corporat...
The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed this week it is investigating possible price fixing among the major recording labels for online music The probe is similar to action taken by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who last month continued an investigation of digital download collusion and price fixing....
Avtex, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner that offers contact center, IP telephony and unified messaging applications, will be moving into the hosted contact center VoIP space once its acquisition of Interactive Solutions International is completely absorbed The company announced on Friday that it had acquired the Cincinatti-based firm....
A judge has cleared the way for Toys 'R' Us to terminate its e-commerce partnership with Amazon.com, a 10-year dot-com era partnership the toy seller has been seeking to terminate for nearly two years Toys 'R' Us sued Amazon in May of 2004, seeking to terminate an agreement struck in 2000 under which Amazon handled online sales for the retailer. Th...
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday unveiled new legislation that would ensure what he is calling "net neutrality," or equal delivery of content on the Internet for consumers and businesses Under Wyden's bill, dubbed the "Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006," telephone and cable companies would be prohibited from charging businesses for ...
How different would the IT world look if Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) joined forces in the operating system arena? Sun CEO Scott McNealy has already imagined such a scenario The executive is urging its bitter rival to unite its HP-Unix operating system with Sun's Solaris Unix operating system. McNealy posted a mem...
Intel, the leading chipmaker and one of the most closely watched technology sector bellwethers, cut its revenue forecast for the current quarter Thursday, citing market share erosion and weaker demand Sales will be between US$8.7 billion and $9.1 billion, the company said, substantially below the $9.1 billion to $9.7 billion range it projected in J...
Most Americans think that the U.S. dollar is the dominant world currency, and in many ways, it is. In fact, the dollar has been the currency of choice since not too long after World War I However, in the last 20 years or so, Japan has emerged as an economic powerhouse, and its currency, the yen, has gained prestige and power. Furthermore, the Europ...
Now is the time for all good dads to come to the aid of their Girl Scout daughters and sell, sell, sell cookies. What is reminiscent of the sentence used by many typing teachers to teach that skill has become the battle cry throughout the suburbs of America. What has quickly replaced the length of one's SUV as a status symbol in suburbia is something so competitively pure and clear you can't help but admire it: boxes sold...
Some members of Congress want to tax the Internet, and they're trying to do it under the guise of "telecom reform." That's a trick Americans won't like. It's time to send Washington a message, loud and clear: hands off the Internet During hearings on a government tax and welfare program called the Universal Service Fund (USF), Senate Commerce Comm...
CRM may be the largest Software as a Service (SaaS) market, but it is by no means the only one. If current trends continue, it may well lag behind the new software sectors moving to adopt the SaaS model One hot sector is compliance management, which is now the second largest SaaS market segment, according to a research note by Gartner....
Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page service that has become wildly popular among Internet users, especially teens...
Video game maker S2 Games is testing a new delivery system that is beginning to catch on with both independent computer game makers and industry giants: Web downloads. S2 Games plans to sell its new title "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul" exclusively online when it is released in October High-speed Internet connections and cost savings are driving game p...
Skype has landed in the midst of a semiconductor industry battle betweenAMD andIntel. AMD, the No. 2 chipmaker, is seeking documents from theVoIP company about its dealings with market leader Intel, according to a Feb. 28 subpoena Skype, now owned by Internet auction gianteBay, has set up the second version of its software program so that Intel-bas...
The Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given its final approval to a settlement that ends legal disputes with VeriSign and anoints that company as the operator of the lucrative dot-com registry through 2012 The deal is now being sent to the U.S. Commerce Department for its OK, which would likel...
As an industry, delivery of television programming into the home over broadband connections is barely off the ground, but it's already showing signs of consolidation A continuing series of acquisitions in the IP video market will ultimately result in a smaller number of vendors, according to a report released by ABI Research on Wednesday....
Film animation giant DreamWorks is jumping on the service-oriented architecture bandwagon. The company on Wednesday announced it has implemented an HP solution based on SOA to simplify and consolidate key business operations SOA is an approach to building and managing IT infrastructures using standards-based software and services as autonomous, re-...
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