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Sun Microsystems today announced the names of the five individuals selected to participate in the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board (CAB). The board was created to steward the evolution of the OpenSolaris community towards self-governance "The formation of the CAB is another major step forward in making OpenSolaris a reality," said John Loiacono...

Business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities, which handle non-voicework, are easier to manage than offshore call centers. This is because of the nature of the work itself as well as the human resource issues associated with call centers in emerging economies Common types of BPO work are:...

Fall River, Mass., is an old textile town sprawled along the hillson the banks of the Taunton river, its salad days more than a century behind it. Although located only some 50 miles south of Boston and its high-tech "Golden Horseshoe," Fall River has never been associated with the phrase "state of the art" -- until last week That's because, in a d...

Hitachi said today that it is a step closer to releasing its version of next-generation storage technology: perpendicular recording, which allows for much more densely packed hard disk drives Hitachi expects to release a 1-terabyte drive by the end of the year and said that a group of its employees are in the midst of testing the technology. Perpen...

Placing a bet that the book-making industry will move away from traditional publishing methods to embrace the efficiencies of the Web, Amazon.com said it has purchased a privately held print-on-demand publisher Amazon paid an undisclosed sum to acquire BookSurge, a Charleston, S.C.-based firm that already sells many of its books through Amazon....

Business users have been slow to make the upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2, according to AssetMetrix Research Labs, a vendor that helps companies analyze their computing infrastructures. But analysts said the survey may not tell the entire story Of the 251 surveyed North American corporations, consisting of over 136,000 PCs, a mere 24 percent h...

A new controversy involving the old issue of search engine spamming -- where keywords or marketing information that may not actually be relevant to a site's offering are used to gain higher rankings in search results -- has again demonstrated the fine line site operators walk in generating traffic and revenue without garnering ill repute from the Internet community...

Vertical search, seen by many analysts as the next massive market opportunity in the search space, is quickly becoming one of the most crowded, with a host of new launches in recent days In the past two weeks alone, LookSmart launched a group of five vertical search tools and promised more, Yahoo unveiled the first of what is hinted would be a fami...

The Open Source Initiative on Friday announced a new interim president and plans to focus on evaluating the OSD licensing process with its recently added international board members OSI is the non-profit corporation responsible for the management and promotion of the Open Source Definition, which sets the criteria under which software may be called...

Since NTT DoCoMo successfully launched its i-mode service in 1998, there have been varying degrees of hype about the future of mobile content and the revenue potential of applications run on wireless data networks Early versions of wireless application protocol (WAP) in Europe and North America did not garner much interest from consumers, but with ...

In the economic clouds of recent years, marketers discovered a silver lining in multichannel marketing. Numerous reports and case studies showed that online marketing of big-ticket items such as automobiles improved offline purchases. Similarly, mail-order catalogs prodded many stay-at-home shoppers to shop online, their virtual carts jammed with clothing and home furnishings...

Transmeta makes for an interesting Silicon Valley case study. The net of its announcement last week is that they will continue to be with us indefinably This company has an amazing history, and its story demonstrates the opportunities and mistakes that can surround a high-profile startup in Silicon Valley....

The problem with using most spam-blocking programs is they require constant fixing. Creating rules for filtering can be frustrating and annoying, and even downright unreliable Even when users are diligent about applying rules, the filtering and blocking processes do not always function as promised. Spam-filtering is not an exact science. So some sp...

A report recommending that VeriSign is well positioned to remain in charge of the ".net" domain name registries is coming under repeated criticism, as the Internet's international governing body finds itself in the eye of yet another controversy The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a report earlier this week from...

Mobile operators that are part of the GSM Association (GSMA), which serves more than a billion mobile users, are crying foul over the fee structure for standard digital rights management (DRM) protection proposed for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) by MPEG LA, warning the license scheme is unworkable and may stifle industry growth and innovation GSM...

Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment is vying to become the iTunes of the downloadable movie industry. So said Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, at the Digital Hollywood conference earlier this week in Santa Monica, Calif "We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs did for m...

Search engine Google marked the one-year anniversary of the debut of its much-hyped Web-based e-mail program by boosting the free storage it gives users to a massive 2 gigabytes and promising to continue to move the bar higher as users' needs expand The move doubles the original 1 GB storage that came when Gmail debuted last April 1 and is seen by ...

In a competitive move that extends beyond aggregating general-audience blogs and RSS news feeds, Bloglines this week added package tracking to its free Web-based services Bloglines users can now track the shipping progress of package deliveries from FedEx, UPS and the United States Postal Service within their "MyFeeds" page....

A short while ago, I wrote a column for the E-Commerce Times entitled "VoIP Here To Stay." In it, I talked about WiFi technology and its impact on VoIP. This article goes further in that it explores the widespread adoption of WiFi technology and what it bodes for the future of technology What Is WiFi?...

Following a trend burning across the nation, San Francisco's Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently approved US$300,000 for a feasibility study on whether the city should add broadband to its utility services. This move toward government-run communications systems is dangerous for a number of reasons Many cities, like San Francisco, are in debt ...