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There are a few cardinal rules of e-business sites that have become the goal of every Webmaster: Keep design simple, make navigation easy, and stress the need for speed. With Web architecture becoming more refined and vendors pushing out products that streamline operations, becoming faster has never...

Last-ditch efforts by high-ranking Microsoft executives to negotiate a settlement with European Union antitrust regulators apparently have fallen short, and the clock is now ticking toward a March 24th decision by regulators about what penalties to slap on the software giant. Microsoft had been in n...

In December, Check Point Software Technologies acquired personal firewall leader Zone Labs for $205 million, creating a high-powered security firm poised to crank out more products for businesses and consumers. One of the first applications to result from the acquisition is an upgrade to a popular Z...

Microsoft's attack against Linux desktop software provider Lindows.com has taken yet another turn, with Lindows' legal counsel filing a motion Monday in U.S. Federal Court seeking to stop the flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has launched in a host of foreign countries over the last sever...

In an effort to seize an opportunity created by regional resistance to the Windows operating system, Hewlett-Packard has said it plans to begin shipping more desktop computers loaded with the Linux operating system in Asia. Specifically, HP will partner with Turbolinux to ship the open-source deskto...

If one topic has become a hot potato in both the political and employment realms, it is offshore outsourcing. Global staffing company Accountants In India (AII) hosted a teleconference Tuesday to discuss major outsourcing issues like security, ethics and workflow. Although the tone of the teleconfer...

Nortel Networks has suspended its two top financial executives pending the outcome of an internal audit, sparking fear that the telecommunications equipment maker could become the latest tech firm ravaged by accounting scandal. Shares of Nortel, which had been climbing to new heights as the company ...

In what is being billed as the largest one-time investment of private equity in a technology firm, a leveraged buyout group led by two Silicon Valley venture capital firms has agreed to buy EDS' product design software business for $2.05 billion in cash. The business, UGS PLM Solutions, has about 42...

At the recent RSA conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in his keynote speech predicted traditional passwords are headed for their demise. Any CIO who has walked past a row of desks knows Gates has a point when he says passwords cannot adequately protect security: The number of Post-It notes aff...

Oracle has reported third-quarter sales rose 9 percent year over year to US$2.5 billion while profits climbed 11 percent to $635 million. The company also issued a positive outlook for the rest of 2004, a prediction that could help the stock market end a week-long slide. Oracle said new software lic...

Yahoo has announced an offering that will marry its instant messaging offering with British Telecommunications' BT Communicator service, creating a call management package that integrates PC-to-phone calling, Internet call waiting and directory lookup with Yahoo's Messenger service. Voice over Inter...

In a move that could threaten a key source of recent and future growth, Intel has said it will be forced to stop shipping some of its Centrino mobile computing processors to China because it cannot comply with that country's government-mandated standards. Intel did not close the door on developing a...

The 1990s saw Latin American countries -- like their "developing country" counterparts in Asia -- benefit from large inflows of direct foreign investment as well as mergers-and-acquisitions activity. This tremendous influx of funds was in large part driven by the speculative Internet and telecommuni...

Cisco Systems introduced new products Tuesday that advance the company's so-called "Self-Defending Network" strategy. According to the company, its portfolio of new products works in an autonomic fashion to identify threats, isolate infected endpoints and reconfigure the network in response to intru...

An alliance of leading Internet companies -- including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink -- has filed a wave of lawsuits against "hard-core" spammers under the new CAN-SPAM law that took effect at the beginning of 2004. Specifically, the companies said they have filed six lawsuits that name hundre...