Shane Robison, former president of AT&T Lab's Internet technology and development division, has been hired as chief technology officer at Compaq Computer Corp. He will assume the posts of senior vice president of technology and chief technology officer, according to an announcement by the Houston-based company today.
Dell Computer has announced that third-quarter revenue appears to be trailing expectations by about 3 percentage points, giving the company a revenue increase of about 7 per cent over the second quarter.
Microsoft has asked for 60 days to file its appeal briefs in the antitrust case it lost to the government in June, but the US Department of Justice (DOJ) says that's too much time.
Six months after a company reorganisation aimed at reversing a recent string of financial losses, 3Com yesterday announced its CEO Eric Benhamou is leaving his post effective January 1.
Benhamou, who has led the networking company for 10 years, will remain as 3Com's chairman.
Online retailer Amazon.com has issued an apology to customers for a recent price-testing program that charged some users of its Web site more than other shoppers had to pay for the same products.
Eight months after it was first detailed, the Covisint online exchange being developed by the Big Three automakers is set to open for business next week after announcing Tuesday that the German government had ended an antitrust review of the planned business-to-business marketplace.
In a pre-emptive move aimed at ensuring that defunct online home furnishings retailer Living.com Inc. doesn't try to sell all of its customer data as part of bankruptcy proceedings, the Texas attorney general's office yesterday filed both a lawsuit against the company and a proposed settlement that sets restrictions on such a sale.
BroadVision Inc. this week announced an application that it said would help automate and personalize the creation of business-to-business marketplaces on the Internet.
E-commerce software vendor BroadVision Wednesday announced its new MarketMaker application to help automate and personalise the creation of business-to-business marketplaces on the Internet.
Dell Computer has announced that it is going online next month with its first-ever marketplace to help link its customers and suppliers in a business-to-business e-commerce community.
For the first time since launching its GMBuyPower.com Web site 18 months ago as a place where car shoppers could get information about its products, General Motors Corp. next month will give some of its customers the ability to buy new vehicles almost entirely via the Internet.
Linux software powerhouse Red Hat Inc. posted a 76 percent increase in revenue in its second quarter, ended Aug. 31, but losses also rose, led by acquisitions and infrastructure expansion costs.
For the second time since July, the Dow Chemical Co. has fired a group of workers and reprimanded others after the employees allegedly violated the company's policies against pornographic e-mails.
Companies and online advertisers that use information-gathering "Web bugs" on their Web sites should plainly disclose the presence of the technology to users, according to a US-based privacy group that proposed a set of standards on that topic this week.
Companies and online advertisers that use information-gathering "Web bugs" on their Web sites should clearly disclose the presence of the technology to users, according to a Denver-based privacy group that proposed a set of standards to address the issue this Week.