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On Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts, the team with one of the most potent offenses in the history of the National Football League, will face off against defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, ending a week's worth of hype and predictions As the game unfolds on the field, the owners of both teams can feel certain about one outcome: Their ...
In a bid to boost efficiency, Hewlett-Packard today said it has merged its Imaging and Printing Group and its Personal Systems Group, forming the HP Imaging and Personal Systems Group HP said the goal of the merger is to accelerate profitable growth, leverage the power of its portfolio and strengthen its market position....
On December 27, 2004, President Bush did something that made Microsoft -- and probably every other software maker in the world -- very happy. Bush signed into law the Anti-Counterfeiting Amendments Act of 2003, also known as H.R. 3632 The new law criminalizes the distribution of genuine authentication components that have been separated from the so...
While all eyes were focused on Oracle closing the PeopleSoft deal this week, a series of announcements from SAP and Microsoft may prove to be even more significant to the IT industry overall and to CRM specifically in the long term Within the next five years SAP and Microsoft will change the landscape with their efforts in integration and replatfor...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's two appointees to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will soon be sworn in. Many hope these winds of change will lift California's stagnant telecom policy out of its slump, making 2005 a pivotal year for communications jobs and technology One of the first issues the new commissioners will face is the...
After eight years at the helm, TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsey has decided torelinquish the CEO's chair when a successor is named. Ramsey will continuein his role as chairman TiVo's struggles to gain market share in the digital video recorder (DVR)market that it pioneered are well documented. Last week at the ConsumerElectronics Show, the company annou...
Napster today said its bid to turn what was a legendary brand in the underground music world into a contender in the legitimate online music space gained ground last year, fueled by a year-end spurt of new subscribers Napster said its subscriber base was up 50 percent in the quarter that ended in December and ended 2004 with 270,000 paid subscriber...
Google responded yesterday to a bug that would allow users of the company's Gmail beta software to e-mail themselves a message which would then drag other information from other e-mails transmitted with the service While a Unix community group known as HBX Networks detailed the quirk and provided examples of how to get data from strangers' e-mail, ...
Revisiting a tactic that has been hugely successful in the past, especially when it bought home WiFi gear maker Linksys, Cisco Systems said it would acquire wireless local area network (WLAN) switch maker Airespace for US$450 million Cisco said the all-stock purchase of privately held Airespace would augment its existing product offerings in the en...
In a forward-thinking move to gain ground in the browser battle, Opera has said it would offer free software licenses for the product to universities. That means students can use its fee-based browser at no cost to schools Pointing the finger squarely at its competitors, Opera yesterday said the offer is in response to schools' increasing concern o...
Global competition, legal issues, technological advances, changes in manufacturing and tracking their constantly evolving target markets are more than enough challenges for many companies to deal with. Add to them internal requirements -- human resources, accounting, information technology -- and the headaches only expand For years, there have been...
Call center operator InfoCision Management Corp. is adding teleservices representatives. Over the coming months several hundred people will join the company's call centers in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The company also is working on plans for a new call center that will, if built, employ 100 to 200 additional staff by June. The majority of new hires will take call center rep roles, but InfoCision will pull in new managers, too...
Two weeks ago, I asked for reader aid in getting documentation on early 1990s System VR4 Unix to help understand what things can be done with Linux today but could not be done with AT&T System VR4 The question was naive and I need more help (and aspirin) in struggling toward a better answer than I've reached so far. In fact, because my interest was...
A new phone from Samsung Electronics has the ability to recognize and respond to the motion of its user, opening the door to a host of new mobile phone features The SCH-S310, to be released in Korea in March, allows callers to perform such functions as speed-dial by gesture, such as "writing" a number in the air with the phone....
Drawing on the expanded partnership they announced last year, Microsoft and SAP have created the Portal Development Kit (PDK) for Microsoft's .Net platform on SAP's NetWeaver, promising the benefits of integration and interoperability The two software heavies said that with the development tools for .Net -- to be used within SAP's NetWeaver environ...
Like thousands of other online retailers, 2004 was a banner year for PearlParadise.com. And, like thousands of other online retailers, much of the company's success came during the holiday shopping season that many are calling a turning point for e-commerce Numbers don't lie. The online pearl purveyor's sales skyrocketed from US$250,000 in December...
Longtime Microsoft Chief Financial Officer John Connors is quitting the company to become a partner in a Seattle venture capital firm, ending a 16-year-run with the software giant, much of it spent as the financial spokesperson while the company underwent major changes Microsoft did not immediately name a successor to Connors, 45, who took over the...
Every corporation has a face, captured by its name identity and its image, including the overall image delivery system to push that name in the marketplace. Whether you like it or not, your corporate image is out there and is fully exposed Following are the Five Faces of Corporate Image. The question is not which one, rather which is the best suite...
As the new year begins, the experts agreed that the big story for 2004 in the open-source world -- and one of the biggest in the larger realm of IT -- has been the growth of Linux and its acceptance as a mainstream choice for business. It's a trend that industry analysts expect to continue, even accelerate, in 2005 and for at least several years to come...
You spent the time and money to balance productivity and security. You installed antivirus software at the firewall, at the e-mail gateway, and on all your endpoint devices -- workstations, PCs and laptops. And your new headquarters' wireless LAN is protected with encryption keys, providing a secure doorway to the network and the Internet Your secu...
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