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In a decision experts say may impact corporate monitoring and censorship of e-mail, the California Supreme Court has ruled against Intel and its attempts to charge a former employee with trespassing for sending critical messages to other employees at the company. In a 4-3 ruling, the court said a lower court erred when it granted Intel an injuncti...
A little over a year ago, an international consortium of four vendors announced they were pooling their talents and resources to create a new, standardized flavor of the open-source Linux OS. The initiative was known as UnitedLinux, and the goal was to create a version of Linux that businesses and other organizations could trust for uniform reliability...
All eyes on Oracle's US$6.3 billion bid for PeopleSoft have turned toward Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) could crimp the hostile takeover attempt by raising regulatory concerns. Today is the deadline for the DOJ to issue a second request for information about implications of the takeover.
Blame Hollywood for the glorification of the underdog if you must, but it is difficult to ignore the charm of a comeback kid. In today's high-tech world, it is even more notable than in the celluloid realm to see a turnaround, given the state of the still-struggling tech sector Yet some companies have brushed the dust from their jackets and managed...
Scores of technology companies that staged successful initial public offerings between 1998 and 2000 have agreed to settle a rash of lawsuits filed by shareholders. The businesses have agreed to pay at least US$1 billion and to aid the shareholders as they set their sights on underwriters of the controversial IPOs. Under terms of the tentative agr...
Peer-to-peer technology may have pulled off the greatest disappearing act of the post-dot-com era. Once heralded as the second coming of the Internet, file-sharing giant Napster was sued out of business, and many of its descendants, such as Kazaa and Morpheus, are under fire from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Grizzled veter...
In an effort to speed up users' Internet access so that they do not switch to broadband, America Online will release an upgrade of its leading online service later this summer. The move is intended to shore up the company's customer base against what has been steady erosion. In addition to a speed-boosting feature, AOL version 9.0 Optimized also w...
No, Orbitz isn't dead, dying or even feeling a bit unwell. But the Orbitz tempest, which seemed to be shaping into an antitrust battle of Microsoft-like proportions at one time, is no longer the storm it once was. In fact, the Orbitz story couldn't buy its way onto page one or even the business front page of most publications these days. Why? The ...
As software flaws, wireless network holes and data thieves continue to make companies vulnerable to technological bad guys, a growing need for security experts has driven more IT workers toward this constantly changing field However, the search for the right keymaster can be a tricky one. After all, hiring someone to watch all of a company's electr...
Number two chipmaker AMD has announced its second-quarter sales will fall short of expectations by some US$100 million, a gap the company blamed on SARS-related sales slowdowns in the Asia-Pacific region. AMD said concerns and lifestyle changes brought about by severe acute respiratory syndrome will help hold sales down to about $615 million, comp...
Back in the IT good old days -- just three or four years ago -- money was plentiful, nearly all projects wereapproved, expanding bandwidth and the Internet made all things possible, and confidence in the economy ran high. What happened next has been described by Harvard University lecturer and author David Collis as the perfect IT storm -- the con...
On Monday, Apple Computer chief potentate and executive kibitzer Steve Jobs presented Apple's latest high-end computer system lineup, driven by the IBM PowerPC 970 processor and branded by Apple as the G5. The systems surprised observers with speeds higher than what IBM promised when it debuted the PowerPC 970 a year ago. In fact, the hardware adds up to what Apple claims is the fastest desktop computer, leading Jobs to punctuate his trademark marketing pitch at the developer conference with the continual refrain, "Pretty cool, huh?"...
Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM (global system for mobile communications)- and GPRS (general packet radio service)-based technologies AT&T's offerings can be accessed by purchasing the tri-band Sierra AirCard 750 Wireless GPRS...
Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM (global system for mobile communications)- and GPRS (general packet radio service)-based technologies AT&T's offerings can be accessed by purchasing the tri-band Sierra AirCard 750 Wireless GPRS...
Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM (global system for mobile communications)- and GPRS (general packet radio service)-based technologies AT&T's offerings can be accessed by purchasing the tri-band Sierra AirCard 750 Wireless GPRS...
Fancy the situation of the computer OEM, stuck selling the same software from Microsoft for the next two years -- software that's already been around for more than a year and a half. We may be seeing a four-year cycle between Microsoft upgrades, certainly the longest I can remember. With PC sales in dollars predicted to be down by perhaps 1 percent this year, it's enough to make a computer OEM wonder: Why don't they just slap that "Bob" software on the thing and call it Win95: Reloaded? ...
Venture capitalists may not be the heroic figures they were a few years ago, when they looked like the can't-miss swashbucklers of the business world. But they still have the power to decide whether would-be e-business superstars get a chance to seek the limelight Also, whereas VCs now are more likely to reject business plans that do not have all t...
Apple Computer has unveiled its next-generation Power Macs, based on IBM's new 64-bit processor chip, the PowerPC G5. "The 64-bit revolution has begun, and the personal computer will never be the same again," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco According to Apple sources, the G5 Power Macs wil...
Dell plans to introduce a new line of consumer and business printersthis week, launching an attack on rival Hewlett-Packard where HP's defensesare strongest Dell has made significant strides against HP in the year since the Compaq merger wasconsummated, leapfrogging ahead of its number-one foe in the race for personal computersales and posting gain...
In macro terms, the hostile takeover has been a common, if generally reviled, tactic throughout human history. But does this art of war hold up over the long term in the business world? Are there times when such shotgun marriages turn out to be the right decision for the parties involved? Amid the Oracle-PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards melee, now seems like the right time to ask this pressing question...
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