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The European Commission's finding that Microsoft has abused its monopoly market presence and the penalties stemming from that finding won't have a dramatic short-term impact on the operations of the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, according to one analyst "The short-term impact is going to be minimal," Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directi...
Business is becoming increasingly virtual and decentralized, while real-time relationship management with employees, contractors, partners, suppliers and customers is becoming ever more crucial. Even within a single company, password-protected applications reside on different platforms, in separate departmental security domains, in legacy databases derived from prior acquisitions or (thanks to outsourcing) in separate companies around the world...
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column on LinuxInsider to think out loud about the fundamental differences between Microsoft's operating systems and Unix variants like Linux, Darwin, BSD and Solaris. That drew the usual kinds of responses: Some people said nice things, others critiqued my work, and a lot of slashdotters wandered off to express their own opinions.
Of all the terms in e-business, "network redundancy" does not rank high in terms of excitement factor. In fact, even at industry events, the subject tends to make for glazed-over stares and drifting thoughts. But network redundancy deserves better. Without it, sites can be crippled or even struck down completely The technology allows companies, bot...
A week after announcing it was putting Linux on more of its desktop machines for the Asian market, HP made bigger waves this week, disclosing a deal with Novell to put SuSE Linux on the entire HP portfolio of business desktops and notebooks in North America, to be followed by other markets later Analysts called the deal -- which is an extension of ...
The debut of a diminutive motherboard from Via Technologies this week at the CeBIT computer show in Europe is serving as a catalyst for conversations throughout the computing industry about the return of the concept of the thin-client PC The thin-client computer, in theory, is a device that is just as powerful as a conventional PC, but with a size ...
In an agreement billed as one of the largest-ever Internet-only content deals, Microsoft has won the right to offer streaming audio and video of Major League Baseball games through its MSN service As part of their monthly US$9.95 fee, MSN Premium users also will get MLB.com's All Access service, which MLB.com sells directly for $19.95 per month. Th...
Novell has made several announcements concerning Linux at its annual BrainShare developers conference and is expected to announce a partnership with HP to bring Linux to its corporate laptop and desktop computers Novell spokesperson Bruce Lowry declined to discuss the HP announcement with the E-Commerce Times before the joint press conference, sche...
The Recording Industry Association of America has done it again, putting another 532 alleged illegal file-traders in its legal crosshairs as it tries to push users from free, unlicensed peer-to-peer networks to legitimate song sites for purchasing music on the Internet The RIAA put particular emphasis on college campuses in the latest round of copy...
When the managers of a Danish manufacturing company arrived at Microsoft's main campus, their expectations were as unclear as the weather outside. They wanted technology to eliminate the hassles created by their disparate business systems and streamline their operations. They just didn't know how -- or if -- Microsoft could help them do these things...
The European Union has issued a scathing denouncement of Microsoft's business practices, levied a record fine of just under US$612 million and ordered a stripped-down version of Windows to be made available within 90 days "Ongoing abuses act as a brake on innovation and harm the competitive process and consumers, who ultimately end up with less cho...
With the recent bombings in Madrid and President Bush's warning that terrorists will "never be appeased because death is their banner," it might seem odd to argue for cutting the defense budget. That is, until one listens to John Arquilla, professor of defense information sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey At a recent meeting of ...
Have you gone shopping lately and had your check returned to you immediately at the point of purchase? Or are you one of the millions of Americans no longer getting physical checks returned, but instead receiving scanned images as mailed copies? If so, welcome to the digital age of banking -- a faster and more efficient way to store, manage and view checks. Gone are the days when customers had to sift through a shoebox to review their canceled checks...
The cost of making movies has risen significantly over the years, with the average Hollywood film now costing US$60 million, double the average in 1996. One main reason for this increase is the rise of special effects, which has ballooned from a small specialty industry into a vital cog in the production process. One might think special-effects companies are flush with profit...
Norwegian company Opera is adding IBM speech-recognition technology to its free browser software. The company, which raised about $18 million in an initial public offering earlier this month, said it is aiming the standardized ViaVoice speech technology from IBM at enterprise customers and developers initially. Although we are nearing the finaliza...
Cisco Systems on Monday announced plans to acquire Riverhead Networks, a privately held provider of technology that could help prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on corporate networks, for US$39 million in cash Riverhead's technology will enhance Cisco's suite of integrated security products by providing behavior-based protection....
Porn, spam and jobs are among the subjects found in the latest list of proposed top-level domains (TLDs) hoping to join the ranks of .com, .net, .org and others According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the governing body of the Internet, 10 groups have applied for nine new top-level domains. The proposed TLDs ar...
Setting the stage for what likely will be a lengthy court battle, member states of the European Union have backed a plan to slap a record fine of more than US$600 million on Microsoft for alleged antitrust violations in the personal computer market Although final details of the European Commission's package of sanctions against Microsoft will not b...
A new trend in extorting money from sports and gambling Web sites isn't going away like security experts had predicted. Online gambling Web sites began receiving e-mail threats in October of last year. The messages contained demands for money to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that would shut down the targeted Web site Internet...
Microsoft is still top dog in a newly invigorated brawl over the browser space, despite some security flaws and a somewhat sluggish development schedule Although alternative browsers may offer more secure portals to the Web, many IT managers in corporate America are reluctant to move away from IE -- preferring, instead, to gamble on Microsoft's rel...
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