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With a front-office firing, a rosy earnings report and a renewed court battle against Oracle, PeopleSoft continues to keep industry watchers busy After the announcement Friday that PeopleSoft CEO and President Craig Conway had been fired, many observers assumed that the move was related to Oracle's hostile takeover bid. But now analysts suggest tha...
Microsoft is positioning itself to extend its reach from the personal computer to the living room by becoming the go-to company for digital movies and music within the next three years, the company's chief executive said CEO Steve Ballmer said one of his goals for the company is to expand Microsoft's importance in markets such as music players, mob...
Budget ready or not, we are now moving into the countdown for Christmas, and it is time to start looking at some of the more interesting products you probably won't see at your local Best Buy For an awfully long time, the affordable notebook products have been, well, butt ugly. You might have bought one anyway, but it was really hard to get past t...
Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date because the clunky devices were costly, inconvenient, and intrusive All that could change this week when IBM introduces a fingerprint reader built into it...
The second private space flight in a week piloted by history's second civilian astronaut was worth US$10 million today as the Paul Allen-funded SpaceShipOne (SS1) touched the edge of space and returned to Earth winner of the Ansari X Prize The SS1 team, who will collect the prize officially at a presentation November 6, reached the designated 62-mi...
Dear Craig, Everyone knows that you have had a rough time recently. Everyone knows that Oracle's Larry Ellison wants to cleanroom your software and cannibalize your company....
Spyware and its intimate partner, adware, are among the fastest growing threats to computer users. Many Internet security experts now view spyware and adware as variations of the same thing -- intrusion Industry analysts say spyware and adware together infect at least 90 percent of all Internet-connected PCs. The number of malcreants doing the spyi...
IBM recently announced that it will pour US$250 million into thedevelopment of radio frequency identification (RFID) and sensor networktechnology over the next five years In addition to developing hardware,including the wireless tags and readers, IBM also plans to providesoftware and integrated support systems that will allow vendors to trackgoods ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled against Microsoft in its attempts to patent and license a technology that forms the basis of several of its software programs Though Microsoft was granted a patent for file allocation tables, or FAT, in 1996, that patent was challenged earlier this year by the Public Patent Foundation after Microsoft m...
PeopleSoft shocked the business world this morning by announcing that it had fired Craig Conway as president and CEO, effective immediately Dave Duffield, the company's founder, stepped into the CEO position, and the presidency will by shared by two men, Kevin Parker and Phil Wilmington....
If someone were to ask you, "What are the most important financial controls for a small business?" what would your answer be? This article looks at the minimum monitors that must be in place in order to protect and preserve the assets of a business What you should aim to achieve is to have a system in place that will give warnings when your busines...
Last week California's Public Utilities Commission had an opportunity to undo some of the damage price controls have wreaked on the telecom sector. Instead it clung to a losing strategy that rewards sloth and punishes innovation The PUC approved a below-cost wholesale rate that SBC can charge competing carriers to lease its network. There are very ...
More than 10,000 students depend on Jill Cherveny-Keough for trustworthy computing systems As director of academic computing at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Cherveny-Keough must ensure that dozens of computing centers across the college's campuses run without a hitch. The centers, located throughout Long Island and Manhattan, suppor...
Leading open source vendor Red Hat said it will buy certain security-related assets of Netscape Security Solutions from America Online in a deal worth US$25 million Red Hat said it will integrate the products it is buying, including the Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management System, into its own enterprise offerings within th...
Customer retention has always been an important issue for wireless operators, and they acquired a new problem earlier this year when users gained the right to take their mobile phone numbers with them to a new carrier In their efforts to retain customers, most focus on services and products. "There is a big customer retention effort. But it focuses...
Microsoft formally asked a European court to toss out a requirement that it share expanded portions of the Windows source code, the opening salvo in what analysts say is shaping up to be another epic battle with antitrust regulators In the first of what is slated to be a two-day hearing before the Court of First Instance (CFI) in Luxembourg, Micros...
The U.S. government decided recently to negotiate with, rather than litigate against, the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda (both referred to as Antigua) over the issue of online gaming. This decision came about after the U.S. lost an arbitration proceeding under the trade dispute resolution process of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in March...
About a month ago, I compared the cost for Apple's desktop, server and laptop products to their nearest Dell equivalents (see Macs Are More Expensive, Right?) and discovered that Macs generally cost less than comparable PC products That was a bit of surprise, but the truly astonishing thing that came out of the comparison was that Dell's product li...
In an effort to make its flagship software affordable enough to ward off open-source competitors and squelch piracy in a key overseas market, Microsoft announced plans to release a scaled-down and low-price version of Windows XP in India Microsoft said it would make Windows XP Starter Edition available in India starting early next year. The softwar...
Shares of Google, the world's most-used Internet search engine, might continue to rise as the company boosts advertising revenue, research analysts at securities firms that underwrote Google's public offering said after they were cleared to publish reports on the company Google, whose shares are up 49 percent from the August 18 IPO, might increase ...
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