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Hewlett-Packard is being accused of incorrectly classifying workers as contractors in two lawsuits recently filed in U.S. District Court. The suits highlight a growing issue for technology employers, which sometimes seek to cut costs by classifying even long-term employees as contract workers In HP's case, two lawsuits filed in Idaho -- one filed l...
A lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general against Vonage -- which claims the company misled VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) customers about 911 emergency service -- brings up one of the problems with emergingtelecommunications technology Customers must register for 911 service as a separate step during their registration process. According ...
Novell made a slew of Linux announcements at this week's BrainShare gathering, but today all eyes are on its next major upgrade of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and an acquisition that will expand its Zenworks systems management offering Dubbed Code 10, the new SuSE distribution is expected to move into beta testing in August and ship in early 2006....
In the latest development in an ongoing software soap opera, the European Union today rejected Microsoft's selection of a trustee whose duty would have been to make sure the company complies with EU antitrust laws "We have officially informed Microsoft that their proposal on the monitoring trustee is not acceptable," Commission spokesman Jonathan T...
The war for Web users' eyeballs, hearts and minds -- being fought on numerous battlefields from search to instant messaging -- turned its attention back to the e-mail front today as Yahoo announced it would boost the storage of its free Web e-mail service to 1 GB The massive storage capability -- four times the previous level of 250 MB -- matches G...
As mergers take off in all directions, newly stirred corporate philosophies must be properly captured, realigned and projected through new corporate name personas to ensure the confidence of long-term investors. It is extremely difficult to run a corporation with two faces, two messages and two names First, we must consider how corporations and the...
The press reported a few weeks ago that SCO, the UnixWare purveyor famous for bringing Linux-related lawsuits against IBM and others, was in danger of being delisted from the NASDAQ. This announcement was surprising because most public companies don't risk delisting for not filing their 10-K's. But this is only the end of a series of announcements related to the Utah company's financial woes...
One reason the Internet gained as much interest as it did in its early days was the convenience that it offered individuals interested in pornography. No longer did they have to visit adult bookstores in person; with a few keystrokes the materials were delivered directly to their personal computers Now, convenience is helping to spawn a new market ...
IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reachthe marketplace Big Blue released the product under its AlphaWorks program in which technology innovations are distributed to develop...
Mobile operating system maker Symbian today announced that it has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will enable it to synchronize mobile devices running Symbian with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 applications and data such as e-mail, calendar and contacts While it competes with Microsoft on the platform level -- where Microsoft's Windows C...
Staking its claim to leadership in the converging worlds of mobile computing, Web browsing and cellular communications, Samsung has become the latest handset vendor to roll out a WiFi-enabled phone Samsung said it will make its SPH-M4300 available in its home market of Korea later this month. In addition to being able to access the Web via WiFi Int...
High-tech heavy hitters such as IBM, Novell and Oracle are among those showing support for the Linux Standard Base (LSB), a set of standards designed to improve compatibility between Linux distributions The Free Standards Group (FSG) yesterday announced a long list of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) pledging support for the standard and added m...
America Online has released the latest version of its instant messaging platform, one that analysts say advances the technology that has the potential to alter both the online and communications landscapes ICQ 5 includes a number of new features, including an upgraded voice-chat service that uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to en...
Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, have won the battle to acquire retail software maker Retek, signing a definitive merger agreement announced today. SAP, Oracle's rival in the quest to buy Retek, bowed out of the bidding The database giant will buy Retek's outstanding stock for US$11.25 a share, or about $650 million total. Oracle made the offer T...
Phishing is one of the fastest-growing security threats on the Internet, according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec, with the number of phishing incidents rising to 33 million per week "Attackers are launching increasingly sophisticated attacks in an effort to compromise the integrity of corporate and pers...
While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is outon the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumorsof such a deal have been circulating for weeks Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags tophotos, making them easy to search. Not only can the person who posted theph...
Internet search and content giant Google, known as one of the top aggregators of news and other information online, has been sued by Agence France Press (AFP) for allegedly publishing copyrighted content without permission The French media publisher -- which is seeking more than US$17 million in damages and an injunction barring Google from further...
Time Warner has reached a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pay US$300 million in fines to settle a long-simmering investigation into America Online's accounting practices during the height of the dot-com boom The company said the SEC has formally approved a settlement that calls for Time Warner to pay the cash penalty and t...
The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine The PSP will go on sale Thursday at US$250, and demand is so high that Sony's initial release of 1 million may be gone almost before it c...
In the face of a European Union threat to levy US$5 million in daily fines for allegedly failing to license selected software code, Microsoft today announced the expansion of its Shared Source Initiative to cover seven additional countries in the European Union Launched in May 2001 and now encompassing 17 unique code-sharing programs for various Mi...
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