Informix offers online retail tools
Informix is launching new e-commerce products specifically-tailored to "brick and mortar" retailers who want to start online operations.
Informix is launching new e-commerce products specifically-tailored to "brick and mortar" retailers who want to start online operations.
IBM plans to ship PCs with an embedded security chip on the motherboard, according to a company official.
Despite posting a $US3.1 million loss in its first public earnings report covering its second fiscal quarter, Red Hat Software said it saw revenues increase 95 per cent from the same period last year.
Although no disasters are predicted, the year 2000 computer problem still has the potential to disrupt sectors of the economy, healthcare delivery and local government operations, a US Senate committee report said on Tuesday.
The Clinton Administration today loosened export controls on mass market encryption software, winning immediate approval from industry groups.
The Clinton Administration has loosened export controls on mass-market encryption software, winning immediate approval The White House said encryption product of any key length may be exported without a licence, after review, to commercial firms in any country, except for seven that are considered by the US government to be terrorist states.
Citing what he terms the third generation of internet development, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer yesterday laid out the software giant's Web applications development strategy.
Dell Computer Corp. announced today an agreement to buy ConvergeNet Technologies Inc., a privately held storage networking company in San Jose, California.
Internet service provider Prodigy Communications said yesterday it intends to buy BizOnThe.Net, a small business Web hosting company.
In a move it hopes will strengthen its position in Internet services, Microsoft yesterday announced that Richard Belluzzo will head the software giant's online Consumer and Commerce Group.
Consumers who shop for software at online auction houses are being told to be careful, following a survey of three popular online sites that found most software products offered for sale were illegitimate copies or compilations.
The popularity of the internet and new corporate distribution strategies are fuelling direct PC sales that are expected to outpace indirect sales by 2001, according to an IDC.
Iridium, the financially-troubled satellite phone provider, has filed a proposed restructuring program with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that would convert debt it owes bondholders and its principal backer, Motorola Inc, into 45 per cent ownership in the company.
The government of New Zealand filed a lawsuit today against IBM Corp., saying Big Blue broke a contract by withdrawing its staff from the development of a police information system earlier this month.
IBM also ran into other legal difficulties in New Zealand yesterday when a Colorado telecommunications company sued the computer giant and its New Zealand subsidiary for allegedly failing to deliver a software program for billing and customer service in an unrelated case.
As expected, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filed a legal brief today in a federal appeals court opposing local regulation that would compel cable companies to open up access to their networks to rival ISPs (Internet service providers).
The FCC filed a "friend of the court" brief in support of AT&T Corp. in its appeal of a federal court ruling in Oregon that required the telephone giant to allow ISPs other than affiliates to have access to its network, and thus provide AT&T customers more choice in ISPs.