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When the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers opened its doors five years ago and started talking to high-tech professionals to gauge their interest in joining a union, many treated it as a joke. Now, with offshore outsourcing taking off and repercussions from years of layoffs hitting home, no ...

High-speed Internet access provider Covad has announced it will roll out Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to its business and consumer customers. The company noted that, following market trials planned for mid-2004, the rollout will start by the fourth quarter in most of its Metropolitan...

PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's latest takeover bid, saying the sweetened $9.4 billion deal still undervalues the software firm. The directors said they arrived at the decision that the offer is "inadequate from a financial point of view" after consulting with financial adviser...

Computer security experts thought the impact of MyDoom would fade on February 12th, as the program reportedly was designed to terminate itself on that date. Instead, MyDoom's creators are suspected of masterminding a new malware attack that started Monday. The new worm, Doomjuice, landed on every co...

Network Appliance, which initially focused on network-attached storage, or NAS, in recent years has moved toward offering a broader spectrum of storage technologies, including iSCSI and SAN. The move apparently is paying off: In its second quarter of fiscal 2004, NetApp's revenue rose to $275.6 mill...

Juniper Networks has announced it will buy NetScreen Technologies in an all-stock deal worth an estimated $4 billion. The pact gives number two network gear maker Juniper instant access to a well-regarded provider of network security solutions, including firewalls and virtual private networks. All o...

Microsoft has reached a deal with The Walt Disney Co. to help Disney deliver content over the Internet and to mobile devices using Microsoft's digital rights management technology to prevent piracy. The deal boosts Microsoft's bid to establish Windows Media DRM as the standard for delivering and pr...

Venture capital commitments ended 2003 on an up note, with the fourth-quarter amount raised closing at $5.2 billion. That amount represented almost half -- 47.8 percent -- of the total amount raised in all of 2003. Amity Wall, manager of research operations at VentureOne, told the E-Commerce Times t...

The SCO Group has broadened its lawsuit against IBM by adding a copyright infringement claim to the case. Previously, SCO was prevented from formally including copyright infringement in the case because of unresolved issues with Novell, which sold most of its Unix intellectual property rights to SCO...

Larry Kramer founded MarketWatch.com as part of a joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corporation and CBS back in 1997. After years of turmoil, the company, which publishes business news and financial information and tools, achieved profitability in the fourth quarter of 2003 and for the year as...

Next week, IBM will release its lightest-ever ultraportable notebook, the ThinkPad X40, and the company has high hopes that it will become the notebook of choice for the corporate sector. The X40 will weigh in at a mere 2.7 pounds -- 14 ounces lighter than its predecessor, the ThinkPad X31. Other f...

In the world of e-commerce, SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is vital. A top position in a major search engine is defined as a citation on the first page or two of results. A site occupies a middle position if it appears several pages into the results listing, say, 10 or more. A site stuck in a d...

The world of data storage can be as confusing as Alice in Wonderland's Tulgy Wood to companies seeking the best and most cost-efficient way to gather and save information. The typical home-user approach -- backing up data on a hard drive -- is not sufficient for corporations. RAID, on the other hand...

Oracle has raised its bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft to about $9.4 billion, or $26 per share. Oracle's amended offer is a little less than 19 percent higher than PeopleSoft's Tuesday closing price of $21.89 per share. "This is our final price," Jeff Henley, Oracle chairman and CFO, said. Forrester ...

A variant of the MyDoom worm sparked a data flood at Microsoft's main Web site Tuesday but had little effect. The company was able to fend off the attack because it had ample warning that the malware would strike. Also, the variant, MyDoom.B, was less widespread than the first version, which hit an...