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WiFi, a technology that enables wireless Web access at speeds many times faster than a standard dial-up connection, is cropping up in coffee shops, airports and hotels. It allows users to get online with their mobile computer or cell phone without endless configuration hassles But despite WiFi's increasing convenience, m-commerce, once seen as a pr...
In its first advertising push since its May 2002 merger with Compaq, and on the heels of president Michael Capellas' departure, computer and peripherals maker Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a new campaign to refocus its identity away from its printing and imaging reputation The ads, which seek to portray HP as a full-service computer company, will ap...
In some ways, it is easier than ever to build an e-commerce site. As technology has matured, its price has fallen. However, the growing need to integrate a site's business operations -- such as ordering, sales and call center functions -- has raised the bar, even as the number of e-commerce technology providers has dwindled On balance, what awaits ...
Two new reports suggest online holiday shopping has gotten an early start this year, possibly paving the way for a strong fourth quarter. Nielsen//NetRatings said online shopping activity spiked 12 percent during the week ended November 3rd, with traffic particularly heavy in typical holiday categories, such as toys and consumer electronics.
Number two semiconductor manufacturer AMD has announced it will lay off 2,000 people, or 15 percent of its global workforce, in an attempt to break even in the coming year. A thousand employees will be notified immediately in the United States, Europe and Asia, and the remaining 1,000 will be laid off throughout this year and into 2003 AMD said it ...
As the U.S. economy continues to traverse shaky ground, companies are askingmore of their IT departments. "Overwhelmingly, what companies are doing ismaintaining the existing IT capability and trying to run that more efficiently with fewer people, fewer resources and fewer inputs into the system," Yankee Group program manager Andy Efstathiou told the E-Commerce Times...
Just seven months after being hired to revive the America Online Internet brand, James de Castro has announced he is leaving AOL Time Warner. AOL said de Castro is leaving to "seek new opportunities" and indicated he wants to hold a CEO position. De Castro reportedly was disappointed he was not chosen for AOL's CEO spot, which went to USA Interact...
What is free, easy to learn and manage, and compatible with other file formats and every major platform? (Hint: It also represents one less tie to Microsoft.) The answer is OpenOffice.org, according to the creators, managers and evangelists of this open source office productivity suite OpenOffice.org is a two-year-old project, the result of more t...
Hewlett-Packard president Michael D. Capellas, a key figure in the hard-fought battle over the HP-Compaq merger, will resign his position and is rumored to be the choice to try to resurrect fraud-plagued WorldCom. HP said the presidents position will not be filled, leaving CEO Carly Fiorina firmly in control of the computer makers direction at wha...
In the last two years, BroadVision's revenues have collapsed, and its market cap has shrunk. Even after a year of aggressive cost cutting, the company's third-quarter results showed continuing losses. That red ink has spurred speculation that BroadVision could run out of money before it executes its recovery plan, which includes rebranding for the enterprise portal market and verticalizing its product line.
In a bid to capture more of the mid-range server market, IBM has introduced aneight-way Unix machine. Dubbed the eServer pSeries 650, the new unitincludes some features that were previously available only in higher-end units The p650 server also represents a price decrease from the p660, which itreplaces. Like the p660, the new offering can handle ...
Dell is not a company thatrests on its laurels. It has climbed back on top of the PC sales heap just a few months after the HP-Compaq merger displaced it, and it has extended its brand name into the printer and PDA markets to help drive its bottom line In similarly ambitious fashion, Dell promised investors last April that it would double its reven...
Ending weeks of speculation, Amazon.com has formally launched its apparel store, timing the debut to coincide with the start of the holiday season. Amazons apparel store had been one of the worst-kept secrets in the online commerce world. Many analysts have long expected the company to enter the clothing sales arena, and during a conference call l...
With the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq a done deal and its strong reputation intact, the new HP seems well positioned to remain a leading force in the global IT arena In the last few months, the company has shrugged off criticism of the much-talked-about marriage. HP CEO Carly Fiorina recently told industry analysts that the company has met ...
After two extremely difficult years, things are finally looking up for the global semiconductor industry. Two industry forecasts released this week indicate chip sales will increase, with the recovery beginning this year. One of the forecasting firms, Gartner Dataquest, predicted the chip market will post 2002 revenue of US$153.3 billion, a .5 per...
After several years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on development, Microsoft has launched its Windows XP Tablet PC platform. The company claims Tablet PCs will help revolutionize computing by allowing users to enter and manipulate data with a pen-like stylus. Microsoft released the software platform in New York City alongside several of...
Apple has made it a priority to lure small businesses to the Mac OS platform, reasoning that those businesses will be willing to abandon Windows in favor of a network that is easier to maintain without tremendous IT resources Granted, adopting an Apple solution is more costly initially, Al Gillen, director of infrastructure software research at IDC...
Is Yahoo! on track with its latest business strategy, or is it losing the focus that made it a force to be reckoned with in the online arena? In the last year, Yahoo! has purchased HotJobs.com and rolled out a stream of services that use its portal-building and streaming media expertise to help corporations reach employees.
Small business merchants in search of new customers andincreased sales this holiday season would be well advised toget online. Eighty-one percent of small businesses that maintained an online presence during last year's holiday season reached new customers, leading to an increase in sales and profitability, according to results of a Harris Interac...
Demand for information technology products and services has bottomed out and is on the rise again, but strict budget controls will prevent IT spending by U.S. companies from increasing in 2003, according to a new report from Gartner and Soundview Technology Group. Based on interviews with 850 chief information officers and other IT executives, Gar...
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