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IBM met Wall Street forecasts today when the company announced that it has shown first-quarter profits of 16 percent. The company earned US$1.6 billion in the first three months of 2004, in comparison to the $1.38 billion it earned in the same time period last year Market analysts have pointed to a number of factors for Big Blue's first-quarter res...
Paired with printing specialist Toppan, Sony has announced a new, Blu-Ray-based disc capable of holding 25 GB of high-definition programming through digital information's prehistoric precursor: paper Sony said its new optical data storage medium, to be detailed next week at a storage industry conference to be held in Monterey, California, uses a to...
Dell expanded its market share and grabbed back the title of worldwide sales leader from rival Hewlett-Packard as revived business buying helped boost computer sales in the first quarter, according to two reports Both Gartner and IDC put Dell at the top of the PC heap during the first quarter of 2004, followed by HP, which held the top spot during ...
Court papers filed this week demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice is asking Microsoft to reveal more to rivals who license essential Windows computer code as part of the company's ongoing antitrust settlement. The documents in federal court show that Microsoft has agreed to a deal with the DOJ, as well as state attorneys general, to res...
Wireless networks aren't just popular with computer users on the go. Hackers are finding them an easy target to snoop on consumers' laptop PCs and, eventually, their employers' networks Digital intruders are piercing defenseless air space at corporations, public WiFi hot spots and homes to gain illegal entry to computers. About 90% of mobile device...
With global e-commerce revenue expected to approach US$2 trillion this year, it is hardly surprising that online stores are investing heavily in technologies that can convince potential customers to become repeat clients Search engines are one such "killer" technology because they play a crucial role in customer satisfaction, according to industry ...
Arguments that Linux poses a threat to national security if its use on Pentagon projects continues unchecked are "short-sighted and self-serving," and are merely an attempt to cultivate "uncertainty and doubt" in the marketplace. So said Dr. Inder Singh, chairman and CEO of LynuxWorks, a San Jose-based embedded software developer Last week, a natio...
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has won the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize -- worth 1 million euros (US$1.2 million) -- which is bestowed by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The new prize represents an international acknowledgement of an outstanding technological innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, i...
Small outfits have been providing high-speed wireless Internet service to rural and isolated communities for a couple of years, but now larger players, such as Verizon and more recently Nextel, have begun their Internet-access plays to compete with cable and DSL broadband as well as one another. While Verizon is rolling out its own wireless broadb...
The developer of one of the world's most high-profile, open-source databases, Sweden's MySQL AB, this week launched MySQL Cluster, a new open-source database clustering technology for applications that need continuous availability. The MySQL Cluster combines a clustering architecture with the MySQL database to deliver 99.999 percent uptime for dat...
Just six months after establishing a Silicon Valley spinoff to develop asearch product, Amazon.com has launched A9.com, a tool that allows users to scour both the Amazon store and the Web for products and information. Eventually, it will let users search other merchants' sites as well, according to the company The A9 site, with a stripped-down home...
Google, operator of the most popular search engine on the Internet, tried to avoid fanfare when it quietly notified some 150,000 advertisers through e-mail that it was modifying its policy on selling keywords that contained trademarked material. Instead, it's ignited a controversy Speaking on the policy change, Barry G. Felder, a partner with New Y...
Sometimes bitter humor is the only sensible response to absurd injustice. A few years ago, for example, a lot of frustrated Apple fans were sure that if Steve Jobs walked across San Francisco Bay, the PC press would thunder "Jobs Can't Swim!" and The Wall Street Journal would editorialize the experience as a business disaster from which Apple should never hope to recover...
High-speed wireless -- or WiFi -- provider Wayport will be serving wireless access alongside Bic Macs and Happy Meals to McDonald's customers as the two companies team to roll out 802.11b and 802.11g technology throughout hundreds of the fast-food restaurants. The companies said that after testing with a pilot program that delivered WiFi connectiv...
An investigative report by a government agency in the United Kingdom has revealed many disabled users find online chores that are routine for most people to be Herculean for them, as they "find it impossible to book a holiday, open a bank account or buy theater tickets online." The study on Internet access was released this week by the Disability R...
In its monthly scheduled security update, Microsoft released four sets of patches, totaling 33 updates, to counter several vulnerabilities in the company's widely used Windows operating system and other software products. Microsoft said three of the four patch sets are "critical vulnerabilities," with the fourth rated as "important." Absent its pro...
A filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulatory body that monitors publicly traded companies, indicates that Dell last year generated most of its new jobs overseas, in the fastest-growing markets there, including China. Dell's disclosure confirms the pattern in global IT spending growth last year, but business analysts said the outsourcing numbers need to be placed in context...
Intel said its first-quarter revenue hit a record of US$8.1 billion and profit nearly doubled as faster sales of high-end servers augmented its booming mobile-chip business. Even so, the bellwether technology company, whose earnings are scrutinized for hints of how the overall tech sector is faring, failed to provide economy-watchers and investors...
It may seem simple, yet it is often overlooked. When it comes to choosing the right Internet hosting provider, the majority of business owners know very little about making the best decisions. What makes a good Internet host for a business Web site? What makes a bad one? How can the wrong host harm your business? What are the different types of hosting services? Which ones are best for which industries? Here are some tips to help you find the right host...
I read everything I can find related to linking, just to know what's being said. Unfortunately, most of it is not worth the disk space it's written on Back before Google existed, very few people said much about linking. It was considered to be unsophisticated, grassroots Web marketing, best left to hobbyists. The dot-bombs couldn't have ignored it ...
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