Stories by Elizabeth Heichler

Small businesses to get more from Yahoo in Q3

When Yahoo rolls out a new e-commerce offering in the third quarter of 2003, small-business owner Lynne Bingham predicts that at least one of the promised enhancements is going to be "huge" for customers like her.

Companies fight the downturn with tech

While some companies delay new IT initiatives in the face of the current economic downturn, American Express Co. is using this time -- and technology -- to gain competitive advantage, the company's top executive told a group of corporate executives yesterday.

Sun CTO posits new computing era

The world of computing is currently undergoing another in a series of decade-long phase changes, according to Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos, and the new era of the "network scaled computer" will see Sun bringing new approaches to users' cost-of-ownership problems and leveraging its investment in small, highly dense microprocessor technologies.

New Sun software chief aims to unify, disrupt

The very fact that Jonathan Schwartz is leading Sun Microsystems Inc.'s newly created Software Group should be an indication of how serious the company is about leveraging its software assets as a unified force. No moss has grown on this savvy 36-year-old since he joined Sun when it acquired his company, Lighthouse Design Ltd., in 1996; observers consider him an ambitious and skillful ascender of the company's management ranks.

New data communications link is a boon to South Pole scientists

American scientists taking advantage of the clear, dark skies and dry atmosphere at the South Pole to do cutting-edge astrophysics face numerous drawbacks working at this remote location. Besides the physical and perhaps psychological discomforts, the lack of consistently available data communications links makes their work at the Amundsen-Scott Station more arduous. But a new satellite connection that recently went into service is giving these researchers improved access to e-mail, the Web, and their colleagues back in the U.S.

A Head for the Business

Filippo Passerini is an IT executive who's worked in five countries on three continents. But what really proves this Procter & Gamble Co. vice president is a global leader is that he wants to know what shampoo you use.

MS/DOJ - Judge Won't Rule on Microsoft Tuesday

According to a voice message at the U.S. District Court where Microsoft's antitrust trial has been conducted, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will not be issuing his ruling in the case today as had been widely expected.

Judge Won't Rule on Microsoft Tuesday

According to a voice message at the U.S. District Court where Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust trial has been conducted, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will not be issuing his ruling in the case today as had been widely expected.

Online Purchasing Service Offers Co-op Buying

Small businesses that elect to do their purchasing online at the Works.com Inc. Web site will soon be able to get the kinds of deep discounts that are usually limited to the very largest corporations, according to the chief executive of the Austin, Texas-based company.

AMD to Announce New President, COO

U.S. chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will announce the appointment of a new president and chief operating officer this afternoon, the company said in a press release.

Cisco to buy Cerent, Monterey for $US7.4 billion

Cisco Systems yesterday announced its move into the optical transport segment of the networking market with the acquisitions of Cerent for $US6.9 billion and Monterey Networks for $500 million.

Lucent's income, overseas sales rise sharply

Lucent Technologies yesterday reported that its net income excluding one-time events rose 26 per cent to $US1.414 billion or $1.05 a share for its fiscal first quarter ended December 31, 1998.

IDC: Need for Scale Drives Midrange Servers

Users' increased need for scalable SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) systems boosted the Unix-dominated midrange server market to US$17.6 billion [B] in 1998, according to research by International Data Corp.
The demands of database servers and Internet-based application workloads grew the market at a rate of about 5 percent for the year, according to Lloyd Cohen, research director for the Framingham, Massachusetts, market researcher's commercial systems and servers group.

UK's Vodafone gets Airtouch for $US56 billion

Vodafone Group and Airtouch Communications announced late Friday that they have reached an agreement to merge and form the world's largest wireless telecommunications company with a combined market capitalisation of about $US110 billion.

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