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A group of companies in the mobile technologies and devices industry has established a new standards body for mobile processor interfaces ...

Although databases have been a fundamental component of the enterprise IT stable for decades, they now seem to be multiplying faster than ever before, both in number and importance ...

For many businesses, the allure of no-name PCs, called "white boxes" in industry parlance, can seem almost irresistible. Today's typical white boxes are equipped with industry-standard Intel motherboards and processors, avoid the software incompatibility that used to plague even makers of name-brand PCs, and are usually cheaper than their branded counterparts...

Microsoft has released a security bulletin warning that a flaw in the DirectX graphic interface in a majority of Windows computers leaves users vulnerable to buffer overruns ...

Macromedia Flash technology garnered a somewhat shaky reputation at the height of dot-com mania in the 1990s, when it was often associated with Web site splash pages that effectively served as brick walls barring users from accessing a site's useful content ...

Sprint (NYSE: PCS) on Monday announced plans to offer PCS WiFi Access, a broad-based service that will let customers connect wirelessly to the Internet via either WiFi hot spots or its own Nationwide PCS Network ...

Supply chain management (SCM) is not just another acronym in the alphabet soup of the IT space. It is vital to the corporate bottom line and has myriad practical applications. As just one example, semiconductor makers can use SCM to find more cost-effective ways to deliver chips to customers ...

PeopleSoft has completed its tender offer for ERP vendor J.D. Edwards. Both companies noted that PeopleSoft now owns 88 percent of J.D. Edwards' outstanding shares and will buy the remaining 12 percent by the end of August ...

Apple's new server OS, known as Panther, is slated to launch before year's end with new capabilities that will be "awesome solutions for an awful lot of customers," according to Apple server software director Tom Goguen ...

SAP is not complaining about its No. 1 rank in the overall enterprise software space. However, SAP spokesperson Laurie Doyle Kelly told CRM Buyer that although the company is pleased with its standing, it never takes its eyes off the competition ...

The CRM application market is bouncing back, Meta Group said Tuesday. The research firm released a poll showing that 75 percent of respondents plan to spend at least as much on CRM software in the next 12 months as they have in the previous 12. In addition, a portion of that 75 percent plans to spend even more ...

For many years, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have collaborated to make their products work together. Recently, for example, Microsoft chose HP ProLiant Servers as the development platform for Windows Server 2003 and the bulk of Microsoft's enterprise applications ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Ignoring a personal entreaty (and a 15 percent licensing discount) from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the city of Munich, Germany, decided recently to migrate its 14,000 PC desktop users from Windows to the Linux platform ...

On March 7th of this year, SCO Group filed suit against IBM, claiming that Big Blue had used proprietary Unix code obtained from SCO in creating its version of Linux, and threatening to revoke IBM's Unix license on June 13th if the company had not complied with licensing terms and paid US$1 billion to SCO by that time. (So far, with the deadline fast approaching, IBM has not made any payments to SCO but has hired a legal team.) SCO followed up that bombshell by sending about 1,500 letters to corporate users of Linux, informing them that their use of the open source operating system exposed them to potential legal liability...