Wednesday - January 26, 2005
Sun Microsystems officially started down the path to an open-source version of Solaris on Tuesday with a partial release of source code which ultimately will be OpenSolaris. Being released under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which was reviewed and approved by the Open Source Initiative, the full OpenSolaris distribution is expected in the second quarter. This is according to Sun executive vice president John Loiacono and CEO Scott McNealy in a conference call yesterday afternoon.
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Monday - December 20, 2004
Cisco Systems today announced plans to buy privately held Protego Networks, part of a year-long acquisition spree aimed at rounding out Cisco's network security offerings. Cisco said it would pay US$65 million in cash for Protego, which was founded in 2002 by two former Cisco executives and makes security appliances that monitor networks and detect anomalies to spot and mitigate security threats.
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Monday - December 20, 2004
Microsoft reportedly has sold a Utah-based development studio that makes its sports video games, the second time in recent months that the company has sold off a game-development operation, effectively changing the gaming industry landscape. The studio, known as Indie Built, was sold for an undisclosed sum to Take-Two Interactive Software.
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Friday - January 2, 2004
While U.S. legislators and e-mail users are hoping a new national anti-spam law will stem the flow of unwanted electronic solicitations, companies engaged in legitimate marketing are concerned they will pay a higher price than spammers who skirt legislative requirements or conduct their business from offshore.
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Tuesday - December 2, 2003
In a move designed to enable the company to better serve emerging markets and changing industries, IBM said it will reorganize its software business to enable it to target vertical industry segments more effectively. Big Blue plans to retain around half of its 13,000 sales employees around the world in industry-specific products and configurations.
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Tuesday - December 2, 2003
As e-commerce shoppers have become as comfortable booking travel online as they are buying a book on Amazon.com, the competition in the online travel market has become brisk indeed. Although the sudden decline in travel after the terrorist acts of September 11th caused fiscal repercussions for travel companies long afterwards, the industry seems now to be looking at rosier days ahead.
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Monday - December 1, 2003
Online shoppers joined their real-world counterparts in roaring out of the gate as the official holiday shopping season began in the days after Thanksgiving, setting up e-commerce to exceed already lofty estimates for growth, according to reports. Nielsen//NetRatings reported that online retail sites saw traffic jump 28 percent on Friday compared to the same day a week earlier.
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Saturday - November 29, 2003
Today's teenagers have powered the ongoing success of apparel seller Abercrombie & Fitch and music heavyweight MTV, among many other brands -- but the vast majority of e-tailers have long ignored the buying power of this group of consumers. That neglect is shortsighted, say industry experts who track and work in the youth market.
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Tuesday - November 25, 2003
As brick-and-mortar store managers start dusting off their reindeer and snowflake decorations, thoughts of revenue sugarplums doubtless are dancing in e-tailers' heads. Analysts are predicting robust growth in online spending as the gift-buying season gathers steam. Here are some predictions of likely hot sellers.
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Monday - November 24, 2003
Hewlett-Packard unveiled a line of low-cost servers aimed at the small- and medium-sized business market, saying it would sell the products for as much as 50 percent less than similar offerings from competitors. HP said the server-storage products are part of its larger smart-office push to attract more nonenterprise business customers.
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Monday - November 24, 2003
With the second decade of large-scale e-business dawning, the E-Commerce Times decided to poll several well-known industry analysts to get their thoughts on some of the patents that have altered the e-business landscape.
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