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Saying their combined assets can drive down the cost of deploying real-time collaboration software, Sun Microsystems and Oracle have announced plans to work together to spread the word about the benefits of their alternatives to Microsoft's dominant Office suite. Sun vice president Stuart Wells said...

Recently, a new value-added tax (VAT) law was enacted to level the playing field between Europe-based and U.S.-based companies in the European e-commerce market. Previously, U.S. e-commerce companies doing business in Europe had not been required to charge value-added tax, putting their European cou...

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly $7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States. "We believe that we're just at the beginning of what we can do with software," chairman and chief software arch...

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly $7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States. "We believe that we're just at the beginning of what we can do with software," chairman and chief software arch...

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly $7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States. "We believe that we're just at the beginning of what we can do with software," chairman and chief software arch...

On paper, the allure of no-name PCs, or "white boxes," may seem almost irresistible. Today's typical white boxes are equipped with industry-standard Intel motherboards and processors and are usually cheaper than their branded counterparts. But if no-name hardware is such a bargain, why are so many b...

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 The vulnerability allows hackers to execute code on a user's PC at the user's security level. It affects PCs running Windows 9...

Hewlett-Packard has purchased a Swedish software firm that specializes in interactive voice solutions, saying it will roll the smaller company's VoiceXML-based products into its own OpenCall offerings, which are geared toward the telecom industry. The deal makes HP the latest high-tech bellwether to...

This July, Intel turned 35. It's not exactly 50 or 100, but 35 years is practically a millennium for a technology firm. Of course, others share space on the calendar with the chipmaker. July also is the month in which Webvan went under two years ago, taking with it the hopes and dreams of many a wou...

Macromedia Flash technology garnered a shaky reputation at the height of dot-com mania in the 1990s, when it was often associated with Web site splash pages that effectively barred users from accessing a site's useful content. But things have changed: Flash is now a nearly ubiquitous environment for...

We have come to the end of an era. When EMC announced on July 8th that it would buy software firm Legato Systems for $1.3 billion, it was the most potent sign to date that hardware innovation and systems engineering no longer define the warp and woof of corporate computing. Software has taken over. ...

Offering a reminder of just how quickly things can change in the world of business, AOL Time Warner booked a $1 billion profit for the second quarter -- just six months after posting the largest-ever one-year loss by a U.S. firm. The company said asset sales, its $750 million settlement with Microso...

While enterprises face all kinds of security risks, including vulnerabilities that must be patched and viruses that bombard corporate firewalls, the threats that strike the most fear into the hearts of chief security officers and their employees are the ones nobody has thought of yet. "There are no ...

Sprint has announced plans to offer PCS WiFi Access, a service that will let customers connect wirelessly to the Internet via either WiFi hot spots or its own Nationwide PCS Network. Sprint PCS spokesperson Suzanne Lammers told the E-Commerce Times that the new service is expected to launch before S...

Chipmaker Intel has forged an alliance with Linksys, the home and small office networking provider recently acquired by Cisco. The partnership calls for the two companies to share technology and combine their efforts to sell products to the small- and home-office market. The effort will focus on Lin...