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A week ago the U.S. District Court in San Francisco decided for Oracle in the antitrust case brought by the U.S. government, giving the software firm more hope that it can complete its hostile acquisition of PeopleSoft "The Department of Justice may want to appeal it, but I don't think they're going to get very far," Forrester Research's Paul Hamer...
As Hurricane Ivan bore down on the southeast coast of the United States this week, Wall Street energy traders feared the worst What if the storm damaged or destroyed oil pipelines or offshore drilling platforms?...
America Online, the largest Internet service provider, said it would stop using Microsoft's Sender ID technology to filter unwanted e-mail being sent to its millions of members, and instead embrace an open-source friendly alternative AOL's decision came just days after a subgroup of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) said it was unable reac...
Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, U.S. and European negotiators found little to agree on yesterday during a five-hour meeting in Brussels, Belgium "We had a useful and frank discussion," John Veroneau, general counsel to the U.S. trade representative and the lead U.S. negotiator, said during a conferenc...
Qualcomm today projected it will realize higher earnings in the current quarter than previously expected, with revenues up 60 to 62 percent over the same time last year and up 4 to 5 percent for the quarter A notable part of the increase was attributed to the company expecting to produce more of its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) phones....
To be a Linux strategist at Microsoft seems a contradiction, even an oxymoron. It is like being a vegetarian butcher shop owner, or a pacifist Army general. Yet Martin Taylor, with the official title of general manager of platform strategy, must fill just such a role In a recent Computerworld interview, Taylor spoke about his first year in dealing ...
It's time the software industry quit ducking the tougher questions of growth by blindly claiming that every segment will either be conquered by or collapse into the domain of ERP systems It's getting tiresome to have so many industry insiders, financial analysts, journalists and commentators put forth this overly simplistic view of enterprise softw...
Since Sarbanes-Oxley (S0X) was enacted into law on July 30, 2002, management has been scrambling to comply with the Act. In a previous column [Theodore F. di Stefano, "Sarbanes-Oxley: Insurmountable Hurdle for Small Business?" September 10, 2004], I gave some background as to what gave rise to SOX, how Congress reacted to the public outcry, and the resultant legislation...
When politicians express interest in designing technology standards, the nation's tech community should be greatly concerned and react appropriately. One of those times is now and the issue is radio frequency identification (RFID) tags RFID tags are like the bar codes on a cereal box but different in that they have microchips that listen for a radi...
At long last, the noses of computer users have a purpose beyond holding up eyeglasses and balancing spoons Thanks to a Canadian scientist, now you can use your nose to control your computer. Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has created the "Nouse," a contraction of "Nose as Mouse."
Eastman Kodak and IBM will team up to develop new image sensors for digital cameras and camera phones, Kodak said in a statment The agreement seeks to combine Kodak's image sensor technology with IBM's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing expertise. Kodak hopes to use the technology to bring out a new family of CMOS image senso...
Just as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a significant competitor to traditional telephone services and has grown more pervasive in U.S. homes and businesses, television via high-speed Internet is becoming a reality as both broadband and competition grow Evidence of the broadband TV steps that both telecommunications and content p...
For companies with average revenues of $8.26 billion, the average IT budget hovers around $28.21 million, according to a Gantry Group survey Given those numbers, small and medium-sized enterprises may wonder how they can compete in reliable and innovative information technology....
Activity in the Philadelphia region's manufacturing sector continues to improve, according to firms surveyed for this month's Business Outlook Survey released today by the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia While the indicator for general activity fell from its August reading, indicators for new orders and employment improved. Firms reported an i...
Microsoft's settlement with Sun Microsystems has sparked attention in the open-source community, since it contains a provision giving Microsoft the right to sue developers and users of OpenOffice.org The agreement with Sun was inked in April, but its details were made public only this week as part of Sun's annual U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis...
Adding the latest competitive twist to the online music space, XM Satellite Radio said it would launch an Internet version of its commercial-free radio service next month XM said it would offer a Web-only subscription to its satellite service for US$7.99 per month. Subscribers to its radio service, who pay $9.95 per month to get the programming bea...
XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to XM's satellite radio service will be able to purchas...
Financial services companies might be unwitting contributors to the nation's identity theft problem, according to a report from Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that identity theft costs American businesses US$50 billion to $60 billion a year. "Despite this clear threat to their business, f...
A fire at a telecommunications hub in Chennai, India, crippled call centers across the country yesterday, and voice and data service interruptions continued this morning Cell phone customers of Tamil Nadu were also impacted by the fire at a Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited telecommunications facility in the south Indian metropolis of Chennai. Cell phon...
Does the operation of a Web site mean that your company can be dragged into court in any jurisdiction? This is a question that has been the subject of numerous lawsuits in both the U.S. and other countries. Here are summaries of a few recent U.S. decisions that provide some guidance on this issue In the first decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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