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Adding another chapter to the epic debate over the relative value of the open-source Linux operating system, the Yankee Group has released a report stating that switching from Windows to Linux can be up to four times as costly and take three times as long as upgrading from one version of Windows to ...

As the standard for e-business Web sites moves ever higher and online shoppers become increasingly demanding, Web site performance can make the difference between a sale and a lost customer. CEO Tim Drees, who founded privately held Webmetrics in 1999 to provide transaction monitoring services and h...

Aiming to avoid a possible showdown with law-enforcement officials, Yahoo and Google, the two largest search engines -- and online-advertising generators -- have said they will stop taking advertisements in the United States from gambling casinos and related companies. Both search providers reached ...

After years of legal wrangling, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft jointly announced that they have brokered a 10-year "technology collaboration" agreement, plus several related agreements -- including a settlement of all pending legal issues between them. As part of the deals, Microsoft will pay Sun $7...

Gateway has said it will close all of its remaining retail stores, putting some 2,500 people out of work and driving the final nail into the coffin of an ambitious but failed approach to selling computers. The additional layoffs -- which amount to nearly 40 percent of Gateway's remaining workforce -...

Greg Stanger knows how difficult it can be to take a company public, even in the best of times. A former Microsoft employee, Stanger became CFO of Expedia when the travel site was spun off and taken public in 1999. Stanger also knows that even with the recent run-up in technology stocks and the pros...

The pesky Netsky worm dogged Web computers during the month of March, accounting for 60 percent of all malicious e-mail tracked by antivirus firm Sophos. Five of the top 10 viruses tracked during the month, including all of the top three, were variants of Netsky. Some 15 versions of the worm were ac...

Google has confirmed to the E-Commerce Times that its newly announced Web mail service is not an April Fool's hoax, despite Thursday morning speculation. "It's for real," Google spokesperson David Krane said in an interview. The free Gmail service, which will offer users a full gigabyte of e-mail st...

In what may -- or may not -- be its most ambitious foray beyond its core search business to date, Google has announced it will launch a free e-mail service called Gmail that will offer users a full gigabyte of storage space. The tone and timing of the press release, dated April 1st, led some to spec...

In an effort to warp the space-time fabric, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will go back in time to sabotage the Linux operating system, according to an internal memo leaked to the Internet by an unknown Microsoft insider. The e-mail memo, sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Gates with a subject li...

Hot dog stand owner Jim McMahon has announced the triumphant return of his company, Piping Hot Dogs.com, from the dot-com graveyard. "We really learned our lesson, man," McMahon said in an interview Thursday. "For a while, dot-com became dot-bomb, you know? It was like a stigma. But things are chang...

SBC Communications, one of the telecom industry's landline leaders, announced Tuesday its plans to roll out "FreedomLink" WiFi hotspot service at UPS Store locations throughout the United States. The announcement is the latest stage in the company's overall FreedomLink strategy, which promises to br...

In the past year, enterprise networks have faced a plague of security issues. Now, many companies are finding themselves forced to channel more time and money toward improving security. From worms and viruses to compliance and patching issues, businesses must develop ever-more complex protocols to k...

More than 100,000 technology jobs have been outsourced from the United States to overseas workers, a trend that will continue for several more years but is actually good for the U.S. economy, a new report from the Information Technology Association of America argues. The ITAA, whose members include ...

Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. Jon Bair, Guidance's senior director of development, joined the company after years spent working as a U.S. Army investigator and developing the protocols and ...