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The irony is too strong to ignore. Gartner, Forrester, IDC and other analyst firms are all forecasting that outsourcing will continue growing rapidly. Yet not one is forecasting when industry analysis itself will move offshore With so many conceptual thinkers in these companies, someone has got to be running the numbers on what outsourcing means t...

Last week's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision on Internet telephony helped move the country towards President Bush's goal of ubiquitous broadband access by 2007. While this is welcome news, there's still much work to be done, and it's unclear whether the FCC has the will to make the right moves In a big win for consumers and the adv...

Microsoft might be considering some interim updates to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that would improve the browser's overall functionality before the advent of Windows successor Longhorn, expected in 2006 Previously, the software giant had said it would not offer any substantial updates to IE until it launched Longhorn. It has offered numerou...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off a mini-brouhaha today with a comment he made at the Asia Government Leaders Forum about a controversial Linux study The study, from Open Source Risk Management, which aims to sell insurance policies and "risk mitigation consulting" services to users of Linux, claimed that the open-source operating system infri...

America Online is beefing up security with today's release of AOL 9.0 Security Edition that provides a suite of safety and security features, marking the Internet giant's first version to focus specifically on safety and security "First among our commitments to our members and the online community is that AOL will always help our members feel safer...

Microsoft inked a deal with a prominent French software company in an effort to broaden the market for product lifecycle management (PLM) software used in 3-D design and graphics The deal may also be another counter-move by Microsoft, which is facing an unfavorable position against the European Commission and a growing threat from Linux in the Eur...

Google today launched a site dedicated to results that it says will help scientists and other academics get up-to-date research that might not be available at libraries. Searches on scholar.google.com target academic, scientific and technical publications The company worked with some scholarly publications to unlock content that is normally hidden...

Overstock.com announced today it will sell 1.2 million shares of common stock at an expected price of US$57.53 per share. That would give the online closeout retailer approximately $65.3 million in proceeds The company said underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional 180,000 shares to cover over-allotments, if any....

Search engine leader and stock market darling Google has warned investors that its skyrocketing growth rate is slowing, a development analysts knew was inevitable but one that might be coming sooner than many had expected In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google said that the growth rate would drop due to competition and the ...

The consumer backlash against unsolicited telemarketing and e-mails coupled with ever-increasing competition for customer attention have forced companies to take a new look at their inbound call centers Long considered a profit drain and necessary evil, inbound call centers are now seen as a critical link between an organization and its customers.

President Bush has made it clear that tort reform, narrowly construed in terms of medical liability reform, is on the short-term agenda. In theory, that should be easily done and very positive in its effects, but of course, reality is never as simple as theory, and there are some real risks to open source here In theory the part about it being easy...

As companies clamp down on their IT systems to ensure they are safe from tampering and information leaks, one threat remains difficult to neutralize: hand-held devices. For the most part, employees who use PDAs, cell phones and their smartphone cousins have unfettered access to their office computers, and by extension the network to which they link...

IPass, which focuses on bundled services for remote workers, announced today it will offer enterprise customers monthly and annual flat rates for WiFi connectivity within the United States The company has partnered with T-Mobile to add more than 5,000 hot spots to its network....

Seagate Technology hopes to super size its revenues with a hard disk drive targeting PC users that offers a whopping 400 GB of storage space and 133 GB on each platter Seagate says the Barracuda 7200.8 model is the world's highest-capacity PC hard drive with the highest data density and the fastest performance and the greatest reliability....

The major movie studios will copy the tactics of the recording industry in their attack on online film piracy While announcing its intent to file hundreds of civil lawsuits against individuals alleged to have infringed movie copyrights by sharing files online, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said it would also release free software...

In one of the largest retail mergers in recent memory that could alter both the world of traditional retail and the e-commerce landscape, Sears Roebuck & Co. has agreed to merge with the resurgent Kmart chain in a deal worth US$11 billion The result will be Sears Holding Corp., which will become the third-largest retailer in the U.S. and have annua...

In a competitive move against IBM and HP, Microsoft came as close as it might ever get to supporting Unix and Linux when it bought a minority share of platform integration solutions firm Vintela Vintela technology will allow companies to use Microsoft Windows software management tools to manage Unix and Linux systems....

SBC has jumped into the IP TV market, sealing a 10-year, US$400 million deal with Microsoft to provide television services using the software giant's TV Internet protocol television edition software platform Microsoft has been trying to crack the TV market for years, investing billions of dollars in companies and seeing little result....

What's the big deal, when every major corporation in the USA searches for an Indian company so they can park all their mundane information management under a banyan tree? Protesters during the industrial age screamed against rapid automation as a serious threat to jobs and a possible destruction of society. They later protested about the manufactu...

"Check out the clever, engaging and fun activities in the copyright awareness curriculum of Junior Achievement, Inc., and especially all the special activity plans, interactive lessons, informative materials and games in the piracy education section called 'What's the Diff?'" Another great, easy-to-understand place for you and your students to explore the world of copyright is copyrightkids.org...