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Get ready for easy-to-use home servers. With Monday's release to manufacturers of the long-awaited Windows Home Server (WHS) software, vendors will be putting the devices on the market this fall There once was a time when homes with more than one PC were rare. However, now a modern household can have multiple networked computers, a situation that c...

Epicor has released its first major overhaul of its CRM application since the company shifted its product line to the .NET platform. At that time, in 2002, Epicor introduced new CRM functionality that played upon the benefits of moving away from a client-server environment. This release focuses more on integration with third-party productivity applications as well as connectivity with such functions as computer telephony...

Google's Enterprise unit continued its recent barrage of product rollouts and other moves, unveiling Google Custom Search Business Edition, a paid version of its popular ad-supported site search tool The service allows users to customize the search results page to match their Web sites' look and feel. They can also choose whether to display the Goo...

EMC, a maker of information infrastructure technology, launched a new lineup of storage systems and software designed to aid business users of all sizes securely and intelligently store information in a more cost-effective manner. The new systems range from entry-level devices to high-end "EMC's level of investment and commitment in developing, tes...

How many times have you read a book and realized that you can't recall a major character? Or, maybe you were left wondering how an important plot came to pass. The average novel contains 50,000 lines of text. Now, imagine a multimillion-line novel written by a team of authors over the course of decades that was repeatedly rewritten to the point that entire chapters were no longer relevant to the plot. That is the typical application portfolio of today...

Jazzed perhaps by a successful showing at last week's E3 Media and Business Summit, as well as continued strong sales of his Wii video game console, Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, told a Reuters reporter Thursday he believes the console could touch the stratosphere and top the PlayStation 2 (PS2) in sales The PS2's over 100 million sales sinc...

NetSuite is the first of the Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors to introduce support for Apple's vaunted iPhone. Called "SuitePhone," it provides native support for Safari, the iPhone's browser, as well as NetSuite's own product line and its role-based dashboards Using SuitePhone, users can remotely access invoicing, accounts receivable and payro...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has recast Grouper, a video-sharing Web site it acquired last year for $65 million, to attract a more professional caliber of contributed content The strategy is to differentiate Grouper, which has now been renamed"Crackle," from the more amateur video-sharing sites such asYouTube. This not only will help Crackle's conte...

As the July 15 deadline for new Internet radio royalty rates to take effect sailed by in relative peace, most Internet radio webcasters remained up and running following initial results of compromise talks late last week between webcasters and SoundExchange Most recently, SoundExchange, the arm of the Recording Industry Association of America that ...

IBM has landed a US$1.4 billion contract to provide outsourced information technology services to pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, a deal that boosts IBM's service arm and enhances its reputation in the key life sciences vertical The seven-year deal calls for Big Blue to run servers, data storage systems, desktop computers and networks around the ...

Ever pushing the computing speed limit, Intel says its new Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor is the world's highest-performing notebook chip The company, in announcing the new processor, said there is a big demand for high-performance processors for notebooks being used by "hardcore gamers, artists and media enthusiasts." Intel pointed out ...

Shares of Verizon soared in early trading Monday on the heels of a published report suggesting that UK-based Vodafone was mulling whether to offer as much as US$160 billion to acquire the U.S. telecommunications giant Verizon's stock was up nearly 4 percent Monday after a report published on the Financial Times Web site said Vodafone had held inter...

How good is the match between Software AG and its recent acquisition webMethods? Was is strictly a geographical sales force synergy? Or will webMethods become the de facto R&D (research and development) arm of Software AG while the parent firm's legacy cash flow sustains the movement toward SOA (service-oriented architecture)? Are the mutual product sets well aligned to provide a fuller SOA suite offering? All of the above?...

Today's online shoppers may be more cautious than they were two years ago. Some are waiting up to 35 hours before completing a shopping cart transaction A study of consumers' Internet buying habits suggests that online merchants face stiffer competition and new hurdles in closing sales over the Web....

There's no doubt that the technologies have arrived to make it possible for individual citizens to participate in the legislative process "We've already seen a shift in both software and the media where individual content is key and any one very talented coder or blogger can impact an industry," Amanda McPherson, director of marketing for the Linux...

Last week should have been a bigger week than it was with E3, but that show is now a shadow of what it once was, and many of us struggled to pull anything meaningful out of the event There are simply way too manylazy game developers right now, and I think that could kill this market. Sony continues to be in serious trouble, and now the fight appear...

Sun Microsystems is working on releasing an easy-to-install binary version of its OpenSolaris open source operating system with delivery planned for early 2008, the company told the press Thursday in a meeting in San Francisco. The idea is to deliver OpenSolaris in a packaged distribution method modeled after the ease of distribution used with Linux. The initiative is called "Project Indiana," and it's a key component of Sun's open source efforts. It, along with Sun's OpenSolaris.org community, is facing a mixed bag of challenge and opportunity...

This year, the world may see the results of a new experiment in selling online digital music, and major record label EMI is at the center of the testing. Sandwiched between the current market-dominating Apple iTunes music store and the Amazon.com DRM-free digital music store set to launch this fall, EMI is letting the two industry heavyweights sell its music without copy-protection schemes hobbling its songs...

In a momentous move to end a long-standing rivalry, Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced Friday that the chip giant has climbed on board the nonprofit group's effort to produce low-cost laptop computers for developing nations OLPC aims to bring laptops and learning opportunities to the most remote areas and poorest children of the world,...

Hoping to put its run-in with the options backdating scandal to rest, VeriSign said on Thursday it will replace its chief financial officer and restate results for four full years VeriSign, which serves as the registrar for the dot-com and dot-net domains and offers Web security and related services to businesses, said it would take a charge of aro...