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To say that Motorola has had a turbulent recent history is something of an understatement. A few years ago, when the semiconductor sector was hemorrhaging money and the handset arena was not doing too well either, the company began to reorganize, with mixed success As Motorola works to become a lean, efficient machine, there seems to be a long road...

The battle over ownership of open-source Linux source code took a nasty turn as the SCO Group, which claims to own a key part of the code and has aggressively pursued compensation for it, found itself the target of a hacker attack. The distributed denial-of-service exploit apparently took down the Lindon, Utah-based company's Web site for most of the weekend and lingered into the work week. The company's site was out of service sporadically Monday and Tuesday.

As in Aesop's tale of the tortoise and the hare, perhaps "slow and steady" really does win the race. Sun Microsystems certainly is hoping so. Following a disastrous quarter in which financial results fell far short of analysts' expectations, with net income of just US$12 million on revenue of $2.98 billion, the company is trying to rebound from its slump.

During the late 19th century, shortly after creating the light bulb, Thomas Edison founded the company that eventually became General Electric Although the company does not generate the headlines in the computing press that Microsoft, Apple or IBM does, it has been a behind-the-scenes, trend-setting high-tech innovator. Specifically, GE's technolog...

A New Zealand man who bore the brunt of the recent backlash against unwanted e-mail -- known as spam -- has said he is leaving the business that fills e-mail boxes with solicitations and suspect messages After an article in a local newspaper identified him as a major spammer, Shane Atkinson said he was inundated with threatening phone calls and had...

Antivirus giant Symantec is touting features like centralized management and wireless Web updates in its new AntiVirus for Handhelds line that will be available in consumer and corporate versions beginning in September Symantec joins other antivirus and security companies, including Network Associates, Trend Micro and Computer Associates, that have...

Leading chipmaker and technology bellwether Intel has announced business is improving ahead of schedule, putting it on track to post strong quarterly results that could surpass earlier expectations "Intel's business overall is performing better than expected," CFO Andy Bryant said in a conference call. The company's computer architecture business i...

At the height of the e-commerce craze, when hundreds of new businesses were going online every week, startups typically overbought Web hosting services. As a result, they often found themselves facing hefty bills for unused server space and unneeded features. However, in today's changed e-commerce environment, companies are concerned about achieving ROI, not adding as many bells and whistles as possible.

At the tail end of what could be called this summer's "Worm Week," antivirus and security experts watched carefully as the spreading SoBig.F variant flooded in-boxes around the Internet with millions of virus-laden e-mails Antivirus researchers said the worm, which was set to activate a barrage of e-mail from infected machines Friday, was not espec...

The rugged-computing industry -- which seeks to make computers compatible with environments that are at odds with delicate electronics -- is one of the fastest-growing segments of the mobile-computing marketplace. Surprisingly, research firm Venture Development estimates the rugged-computing market will reach US$6 billion in sales worldwide by 2005.

Lawyers representing a California woman who was targeted by a Recording Industry Association of America subpoena have filed a motion in U.S. federal court challenging the subpoena as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy The woman, whose motion was filed under the name Jane Doe, is an Internet subscriber of Verizon, which is one of two major Inte...

E-commerce posted strong double-digit growth in the second quarter, bringing in US$12.477 billion total in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau, which tracks e-commerce for the U.S. Department of Commerce, said sales rose 27.8 percent from the second quarter of 2002. By comparison, overall retail sales grew less than 5 percent.

In the world of digital rights management, or DRM, the consumer marketplace has gotten much of the attention, with music and film industry giants pitted against users in a fierce fight against online piracy. One of the industry titans' tactics has been to implement DRM technology, which defines and often restricts users' level of access to digital content. In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored the uptake and ramifications of DRM in the consumer market...

The dog days of summer have certainly arrived for Microsoft. In the month of August alone, the company's security personnel have had to contend with nearly half a dozen major worms, including MSBlast (aka LovSan and Blaster), two variants of SoBig (SoBig.E and this week's SoBig.F, which may be the fastest-spreading worm of all time) and Nachi/Welchia, a so-called "good" worm that nevertheless is creating headaches for IT departments...

What's so great about the Office 2003 software system that Microsoft announced yesterday was ready to roll off the assembly line? While the Redmond, Washington-based software company has indeed spruced up the core applications in the package -- including Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, FrontPage and Publisher -- that's not the big news...

The spread of the latest SoBig computer worm variant, called SoBig.F, now is being called the fastest outbreak ever. The worm marks the continuation of a recent onslaught of attacks that included previous worms Nachi and Blaster Security experts said SoBig.F has spread rapidly across North America, Europe and Asia because users were duped by its ab...

Putting the efficiency of its direct-sales model to the test and seeking to capitalize on the recent woes of its main rival Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer has announced it will cut prices on many of its products. Specifically, the company said it plans to slash price tags by up to 22 percent on enterprise, small-and-medium business and consumer products...

The Internet, one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century, has sparked massive change in industries around the globe. Perhaps no industry was as blindsided by the power of the Internet as the music business. With the rise of Napster, users and senders suddenly could transmit songs and albums across the world at no cost -- and at no profit to content owners, such as music labels and recording artists. This shift from a tightly controlled distribution system to a virtual free-for-all was rapid, irrevocable and reportedly devastating to industry revenue, if you believe the arguments of record label executives...

Established in 1958, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency -- most commonly known as DARPA -- has played a pivotal role in support of innovative research, hosting some of the best as well as the strangest research projects, and garnering a reputation as a hugely influential center of intellectual excellence But the organization has come und...

Responding to doubts about its claim that its Unix source code was illegally incorporated into Linux by IBM, SCO put some of the actual code in question on display for Unix conference attendees in Las Vegas this week Lines of the code, which SCO displayed during a slide presentation on its suit against IBM, apparently have served both to bolster th...