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NASA's solar-powered Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is beginning on Thursday what controllers expect to be frequent use of an overnight "deep sleep" mode to stretch the robot's power supply Opportunity has managed only one to two hours of activity on many recent days while it has been examining a stadium-sized impact crater from vantage points ...

Lindows has announced the release of a package containing the latest versions of three popular Linux operating systems. Linspire, Fedora and Mandrake are in the bundle, which has been named the Desktop Linux Comparison Kit According to Lindows, the three systems were chosen on the basis of their product completeness and commercial familiarity. Lind...

Antibiotech demonstrators faced off against police outside of the Bio 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The confrontation resulted in 150 arrests, most resulting from demonstrators refusing to disperse from a busy intersection The demonstrators crowded the streets around the Moscone Convention Center, with most from a local activism grou...

Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia said Tuesday its global market share declined in the first quarter due to bad design and shaky business relationships Nokia's global market share fell to 28.9 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to 34.6 percent it held a year ago, reported Gartner, a technology analysis group based in London...

Novell has released a new version of Mono -- an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net framework -- and some early adopters are already singing its praises "Mono makes Novell extremely relevant now," said Kingsley Idehen, president and CEO of OpenLink, which has just released Virtuoso 3.5, a database-oriented middleware product that was bui...

It's deja vu all over again. Napster 2 in Europe reloaded as the mainstream media players fell over each other to carry Big Music's message that the joyless online music stores it supplies and backs are all there is to online music. Only this time, instead of Napster 2, it's Apple's iTunes Not to be outdone, Sony has arranged things so "product" fr...

As more consumers and businesses turn to the Internet not just forinformation, but as a way to run their daily errands, the need for moresophisticated customer service grows unabated. The old one-two punch ofcall-center representatives and an online Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) page does not satisfy customers who are increasinglytech-savvy and information hungry...

Revelations during the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit to block Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft have caused the world's biggest maker of enterprise software to declare that it is not for sale As part of a willingness to cooperate with the DOJ's case against the merger, Germany-based SAP confirmed yesterday that it did, in fact, eng...

Veritas announced Tuesday that it has extended support of its storage management and clustering products to the Intel Itanium 2 platform on Red Hat Linux 3.0 According to the company, Veritas is increasing its commitment to making Linux enterprise-ready with the move and is extending its Linux support to IA-32 and to Itanium architectures....

Computer chip challenger AMD unveiled a new family of value processors this week, named Sempron, aiming for the budget desktop and notebook markets that are growing worldwide, and also to allow its Athlon processors to serve higher-end markets The Sunnyvale, California, company said the processors are being made for "day-to-day needs of home and bu...

Networking giant Cisco and server-level antivirus specialist Trend Micro have announced an extension of their existing collaboration to provide worm and virus detection-and-prevention services for businesses A rough year of worm outbreaks and other security issues, such as a source-code leak and a significant vulnerability in Cisco's widely used IO...

Attorneys for Oracle opened their challenge of the U.S. government's attempt to block the company's purchase of PeopleSoft by pointing to the recently revealed Microsoft and SAP merger talks as proof that the enterprise application business is much larger than regulators contend Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers, meanwhile, billed the news that M...

Microsoft vowed Tuesday to appeal the recent European Union antitrust ruling that orders the company to modify its business practices, make product changes and pay a hefty fine. On Monday, the company delivered an application to annul the EU's decision to the European Court of Justice After a five-year investigation, the EU determined that Microsof...

AMD today announced that it will introduce a new brand of PC processors to be named AMD Sempron. The company hopes the AMD Sempron processors will raise the computing bar for today's value-conscious buyers of desktop and notebook PCs. According to the company, the AMD Sempron processors are being developed to meet the evolving day-to-day needs of ...

FastTrack, once the darling of online file-sharers, appears to be losing its popularity Reports in recent weeks -- as well as data gathered by Internet traffic tracker Alexa -- show a marked decline in files swapped on networks like Kazaa that use the FastTrack protocol....

Junk e-mail, the way most computer users see it, has become more prolific than postal junk mail. It overloads inboxes and consumes valuable hours each day. Every day, e-mail users must weed through appeals to buy everything from phony products and stock offers to drugs and body-part enhancers -- not to mention the countless free passes to porn sites...

Next time you open a fortune cookie, consider making it more entertaining. Read the fortune aloud and follow it with the words "in bed." It completely changes the meaning and adds some after-dinner fun After reading the GPL analysis FAQ prepared by Microsoft in 2001 -- apparently to discourage the use of GPL software -- I tried the fortune-cookie g...

It's time to leave behind the hype of each new application release and get fundamental about what you are doing with your CRM strategies in the first place. Here's the bottom line: You will only be able to reach your goals if the processes that feed your CRM applications with verifiable, reliable, real data are functioning It's amazing how many com...

In the midst of Oracle's trial to defend its takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle will disclose merger talks between SAP and Microsoft In a statement, Microsoft revealed Monday that in late 2003, it approached SAP to discuss the viability of a merger. After months of discussion, it became clear that a merger would be too complicated, and talks ended...

U.S. small- and medium-sized business (SMB) spending on enterprise software reached nearly US$1 billion during 2003, according to a report authored by Access Markets International Partners (AMI). This includes SMB spending on customer-relationship management (CRM), sales-force automation (SFA), enterprise-resource planning (ERP) and supply-chain management (SCM).