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Saying it wants to simplify consumer electronics and expand their use, Hewlett-Packard has embarked on an ambitious product rollout, introducing some 100 offerings in the at-home video, digital photography and entertainment spheres. In addition to those products, many of which are focused on HP's tr...

As the latest, most compact iteration of server technology, blade servers are becoming increasingly popular. Although blades currently represent just 1 or 2 percent of total server market share, IDC analyst Mark Melenovsky said he believes they will capture 20 percent or more of server unit sales by...

Broadband adoption is increasing steadily in the United States, but significant hurdles are keeping growth rates lower than they could be. Most rural areas and some suburban areas cannot get broadband, making the service predominantly a city-based one. In fact, the United States is outpaced by sever...

Marking the end of an overseas battle between Internet heavyweights, Yahoo has announced plans to shutter its Australian auction site and direct users to rival eBay. The company said it will close the site, known as Sold.com, later this month. The move comes almost exactly a year after eBay invested...

In a bid to speed development of the next generation of computer chips while also easing the financial burden of related research, IBM has announced it will ally with Chartered Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies to develop 65-nanometer chip-making capabilities, with an eye toward moving to even...

Even in the ever-changing technology world, companies that hold 80 percent market share typically can breathe easy. However, that is not the case at Citrix Systems. The maker of MetaFrame thin-client software, which lets PC users access applications that run remotely on servers, is seeing its long-s...

It's only a matter of time before Yahoo and Google bite the bullet and join forces. After all, with Yahoo scooping up Overture, and most smaller search engines already consumed by larger players, it appears that the immovable object and the irresistible force will have to come together. Would regula...

While declaring that open source has limitations, Sun Microsystems nevertheless is moving to capitalize on the method's popularity, saying it will develop an open-source desktop environment that is a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Windows. Sun unveiled its Project Mad Hatter, which w...

The ability to change prices in the blink of an eye, instantly responding to market fluctuations, seems as if it would be an attractive tactic to online retailers. However, so-called dynamic pricing has not caught on yet in the e-commerce world. As Forrester analyst Noha Tohamy told the E-Commerce T...

SCO has announced that it will sell intellectual property licenses to make it legal for enterprises to run Linux, which allegedly uses portions of SCO's proprietary Unix source code. The company is offering an introductory license price of $699 per CPU until October 15, 2003, after which the price p...

Leading Linux vendor Red Hat has filed suit against The SCO Group, aiming to prove that Red Hat software does not infringe on SCO patents and to stop SCO from making what it called "untrue" statements. The company also announced plans to establish a $1 million legal defense fund to help smaller firm...

2003 was supposed to be the year of the PC upgrade. More than halfway through the year, however, a jump in PC sales is nowhere in sight. Fortunately, IT departments are likely to buck the overall enterprise trend, because new PC purchases can more easily be justified for the people who manage and ma...

As the LinuxWorld conference kicks off, Novell has announced the purchase of Ximian, a privately held company known as a trailblazer in the open-source space, for an undisclosed all-cash amount. "Novell sees the handwriting on the wall," Aberdeen research director Bill Claybrook told the E-Commerce ...

Qwest Communications and Sprint have jointly announced that Sprint will wholesale its PCS Vision voice and data services to Qwest customers under an exclusive agreement. The deal offers Sprint a new sales channel, especially for PCS Vision's data services, and Qwest now will be able to offer its wir...

In an effort to trim costs, U.S. companies increasingly have been shipping work overseas, especially to India, China, Eastern Europe and South America. While this practice boosts the bottom line in the accounting office, it also raises the anxiety level of U.S.-based employees. However, not all IT j...