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Promising hefty productivity increases and a lower TCO, Tibco Software this week announced its beefed-up ActiveMatrix 2.0, which aims to simplify building and managing service-oriented architectures. This latest release adds BusinessWorks, which is available either in standalone mode or as a contain...

With rising interest around new mobile communications platforms, there are several early adopters that are successfully utilizing this medium to market and communicate with customers. However, there is still a large majority of marketers who want to first maximize their current e-mail efforts. Most...

A $2.2 billion deal 3Com had been planning involving a private equity group and a Chinese telecommunications firm apparently fell apart Wednesday over security concerns. 3Com, a Marlborough, Mass.-based network equipment manufacturer, had agreed in September to accept an offer of $5.30 per share fro...

Three of the four largest wireless carriers rolled out new flat-fee monthly subscription options that let users talk as much as they want, sparking concerns among investors about a profit-sapping price war in the mobile space. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all announced all-you-can-consume plans wi...

A study by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance shows that more than half of all e-mail is authenticated. However, the Alliance wants the industry to push for higher adoption. AOTA has issued a call to action to implement e-mail authentication at the top level corporate domain within the nex...

Confusion is swirling around Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. After having been twice rebuffed, Microsoft reportedly is planning to authorize a proxy fight this week. Meanwhile, institutional shareholders are about to lock horns over whether Microsoft should up its bid of $31 a share for Yahoo. Then there...

High-definition video enthusiasts are going to be looking at a Blu-ray world. That outlook was assured Tuesday when Toshiba officially backed away from the HD DVD format against Sony's heavily fortified Blu-ray technology. The Blu-ray format had gathered momentum in recent months, having won over a ...

It could only be a matter of time before someone found a formula for taking the immediacy of YouTube and the entrepreneurship of eBay and wrapping them around an original Internet mainstay -- the conversation of the Bulletin Board System. That time has arrived with the debut of BigThink.com. BigThin...

With significant recent defections threatening to make what was expected to be a close and ongoing battle for next-generation DVD supremacy a rout in favor of Sony's Blu-ray format, Toshiba is reportedly close to pulling the plug on HD DVD. Toshiba has already made the decision to stop pushing the H...

The Wii once again took the top spot in console sales, according to January figures released by NPD Thursday. The Nintendo console sold some 274,000 units in the U.S. last month. Sony's PlayStation 3 had another month of strong sales, ringing up 269,000 units to beat out Microsoft's Xbox 360, which ...

In a move that further crowds an already over-served market, four newspaper giants -- New York Times, Hearst, Gannett and Tribune -- have created a new online advertising partnership. Their new venture, QuadrantOne, will be headquartered in Chicago. Its interim CEO is Dana Hayes, Jr., who was named ...

Microsoft has announced one of its most sweeping executive reorganizations in years, promoting 14 and announcing the departure of three. Many of the changes are aimed at the online and mobile units, where the overlap with potential acquisition target Yahoo is the greatest. Some of the changes had be...

The average size raised for an IPO in 2007 was $229 million, according to IPO Home. That translates into a market cap valuation averaging over $1 billion for companies that are going public. The marketplace for IPOs has changed dramatically since 2000, when the Internet IPO frenzy imploded. Since t...

Just days after announcing a major mobile acquisition, Microsoft reportedly is poised to shake up the upper management of its mobile division after the group's former director departed to take a position with Vodafone. Microsoft's mobile business -- which could get a significant boost if the softwar...

HP on Wednesday reached a financial settlement with the New York Times and four reporters who were spied upon as part of a scandal dating back to 2006 that brought about the downfall of the company's chairwoman, Patricia C. Dunn, along with several high-ranking executives. The reporters were Busines...