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Hoping to put another episode of dot-com era accounting fraud to rest, Homestore said it has finalized a class action lawsuit filed by investors in the e-commerce company over accounting fraud in the wake of the dot-com collapse The Westlake Village, California-based company said the settlement in the suit with the California State Teachers' Retire...
Microsoft is expected to unveil new network communications software tomorrow at the 2005 VON Conference in San Francisco. Codenamed "Istanbul," the product will let businesses manage telephones, instant messaging, e-mail and video conferencing through a unified system The company hopes Istanbul will build on the recent success of its Microsoft Off...
Google formally launched its free desktop search software today, moving deeper into waters already crowded with competitors The free, downloadable Google Desktop, previously available in beta form, will allow Internet search-style queries of the desktop, including scanning through a range of computer files, e-mail messages, browser history and AOL ...
Online news sources gained more clout in the 2004 elections, eroding the dominance of traditional news outlets such as newspapers and radio, according to a new survey The Pew Internet & American Life Project said that 37 percent of the adult population of the U.S. and 61 percent of the online population used the Web to get political news and as a f...
Understanding that retailers prefer to focus on the business of selling their wares rather than becoming experts in the technological guts of an e-commerce site, Demandware recently launched an on-demand, customizable e-commerce solution designed to eliminate the technical headaches often associated with outsourcing e-commerce functions or maintaining a site internally...
The demand for enterprise portals -- software that connects the applications at work inside a company -- will be strong for the next five years, according to "Two Technologies, One Direction: How CRM and Enterprise Portals Can Coexist," a recent report by IDC The report details the rapid adoption of enterprise portals such as SAP's NetWeaver. Desp...
At this stage, very few people question the power of open source to transform the dynamics of a technology market. Just look at Apache's rapid rise to dominance in Web servers. What's less clear, however, is what's next. Which sectors of the IT industry represent the next wave for open source? Put another way, where are open-source solutions poised to reset the playing field once again -- by offering competitive functionality and greater flexibility at a fraction of the cost?...
Last week was a busy week. It started with the Intel Developer Forum and ended with an American Press Institute roundtable on the future of media. We'll cover the second event another week because there were two things I saw while at the Intel event that I believe are potentially market breakers. The first is the end of games -- particularly m...
The recent release of Tenebril's SpyCatcher 3.5 packs several high-powered features. Its sophisticated detection engine requires less memory to scan a computer and its components, resulting in scans up to 300 percent faster than earlier versions and most competitive products SpyCatcher brings more intrusion-fighting features to consumers and enterp...
Wireless 802.11, or WiFi technology, is being combined with voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) to provide free phone calls at public WiFi hotspots in the UK through a new service from Internet provider Broadreach Networks and VoIP specialist Skype The companies said the service will consist of Broadreach's 350 fixed and WiFi wireless Internet acce...
Bringing its massive reach and brand power to a rapidly emerging niche, Yahoo said today it had launched a studio that would focus on developing video games for smartphones and other mobile devices The Web portal said the studio is already at work producing its first games for Verizon Wireless and that more are in the works....
After months of vehement arguments from anti-patent lobbyists, the European Union could finally approve a controversial draft software patent law on Monday. The decision would signify a possible end to a long battle over the use of such patents in the EU The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, or CIID, was unanimously rejected by the Europea...
Moving quickly to protect the rights of emerging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a North Carolina-based telecommunications carrier for refusing to accept traffic from Vonage The action from the FCC came less than a month after Vonage first filed a complaint with the agency. At the...
Symantec announced earlier this week that it has been granted a new patent for antivirus technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers a system that enables detection of complex viruses, worms and spyware The technology, "data-driven detection of viruses," is employed throughout Symantec's portfolio of industry-lead...
This article will focus on how Europe is handling SOX compliance for their companies whose shares are listed in the United States. Briefly stated, Europe is pretty far behind the U.S. in compliance and it looks as though they might never fully comply with the law in its present form By now, most of us have heard of SOX, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act....
There's a dangerous undercurrent tugging at even the best manufacturer and distribution channel relationships: the inability to set and manage expectations based on supply chain visibility While many manufacturers insist they have the ability to make and keep commitments based on visibility into multiple layers of their supply chains, their dealers...
The open-source movement has been expanding beyond the world of software development recently into the biotechnology research arena. U.S. BioDefense Inc, based in City of Industry, Calif., is trying to capitalize on this evolving trend by developing an open-source stem cell research platform The small, publicly held contractor for the U.S. Departme...
This week, a Congressional committee held hearings on the mergers of SBC with AT&T and Verizon with MCI. While some might worry about consolidation, the mergers are a sign that the telcos are preparing for a new wave of competition from businesses previously confined to other parts of the economy The telecom industry is going through numerous chan...
In the latest example of how rapidly search marketing is evolving, Google has said it will feature more editorial-style reviews in its Local Search product The search giant formally launched Google Local today and said it will use its search technology to return more results with Web sites that offer third-party information about businesses related...
In response to a pair of potentially dangerous security bugs, RealNetworks yesterday introduced new versions of its flagship RealPlayer software The company has discovered twice in less than six months flaws that could allow an attacker to create fake video files to infiltrate a victim's computer. This points to a potential new security trend of us...
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