After three years of working with Web browser makers to create standards that would improve Web browsing for users, the organizers of the grassroots Web Standards Project are taking a hiatus to recharge their energy before taking on the next part of their crusade.
The Coca-Cola Co. has chosen IBM Corp. to build a digital asset management system to store images of thousands of Coca-Cola advertisements from the last century in a searchable electronic archive that can be used by the company.
Even with the handheld market in the sales doldrums, an unnamed investor with an eye toward future returns is putting US$50 million into handheld device vendor Palm Inc.
A 20-year-old computer hacker who last weekend alerted telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. about security holes he uncovered inside the company's network said he enters corporate Web sites without permission to satisfy his curiosity.
The pending sale of the assets of Exodus Communications in bankruptcy court isn't likely to be a disaster for the Web hosting company's customers, users and analysts said.
Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. today confirmed that a computer hacker recently alerted the company to a security hole in its network that apparently left customer networks vulnerable to intruders.
Online travel vendor Orbitz.com has for the first time begun charging a service fee to customers buying airline tickets from its Web site.
American Express Co. last week announced plans to buy 25,000 of Compaq Computer Corp.'s thin-client devices to replace PCs used by customer service workers and other employees who don't need mobile computing capabilities.
American Express has signed a deal with Compaq Computer to buy 25,000 thin-client machines to replace existing desktop and laptop computers throughout the company.
Open-source software vendor SuSE Linux AG has named a new CEO for the second time since July in the final step of its recent restructuring.
Data warehousing vendor Ascential Software has acquired Torrent Systems to add increased scalability to its products.
Librarians and archivists have been saving artifacts, newspapers, photographs and books for years to preserve historical records. Today, their work is made even more complicated because so much of our unfolding history is chronicled on the Internet.
Linux is a free, open-source computer operating system, created in 1991 by then-college student Linus Torvalds. Linux is based on the Unix operating system, and as an open-source project has been refined by volunteer developers around the world working as a team to add features, fix bugs and strengthen it.
Hoping to boost its fourth-quarter sales, IBM today announced a zero percent financing program for purchases of Intel-based xSeries servers.
IBM Corp. today expanded its Linux offerings with what it is calling the industry's first preassembled and preconfigured Linux server clusters for businesses.