IBM Corp. announced Tuesday it will establish a life sciences consulting practice within its Global Services organization, to help biotech and pharmaceutical organizations use information technology in research and development.
Looking to provide "a balanced approach to technical staffing," networking company Cisco Inc. Monday revealed a new channel partner program meant to encourage greater technical specialization among its partners.
Maxtor Corp. will drop the operating system FreeBSD in Maxtor's new MaxAttach 4100 storage system and use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 instead, according to a joint company announcement Monday.
A research breakthrough at Northwestern University may lead to new fiber-optic network components, boosting the speed of existing networks by a factor of four to 16 without increasing costs or requiring more lines to be laid.
Oracle Corp. executives promoted the company's business-to-business exchange and highlighted some of the pitfalls of these sites on Wednesday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
Database software company Oracle Corp. unveiled a refurbished, repackaged Oracle.com Web site at its AppsWorld developer's conference here Tuesday, touting the site as "a Yahoo for business."
Content distribution service provider Digital Island Inc. is preparing to fight in federal court next week against an injunction request filed by its competitor, Akamai Technologies Inc. in the continuing battle over the company's content delivery patents.
While cable Internet and DSL (digital subscriber line) installation has yet to take off in the consumer market, analysts predict satellite broadband connections to soar skyward over the next four years.
In advance of the Thursday morning fourth-quarter financial report from telecommunications carrier WorldCom Inc., a news report Wednesday said the company will announce job cuts of about 10,000.
MP3.com Inc. will work with wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. to develop an application for the wireless delivery of digital music, the online music site announced Wednesday.
Compaq Computer Corp. will release "hyper-dense" servers smaller than one server-unit -- or 1.75 inches -- high this year, a company executive confirmed on Tuesday.
The e-commerce shakeout continues as online pet site Petopia.com Inc. and beleaguered Internet toy retailer eToys Inc. close their virtual doors.
Motorola Inc. will outsource elements of its wireless products CRM (customer relationship management), including distribution, warehousing, inventory capability, call centers, and the like to Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS), EDS said in a statement Wednesday.
Nortel Networks Corp. today unveiled new telecommunications technology, based on Alteon WebSystems Inc. switches, designed to give Internet content providers the ability to provide new services.
Dutch ERP (enterprise resource planning) software maker Baan Co. NV unveiled a suite of Internet-based management applications and services Monday, its first offering since British software maker Invensys PLC bought a controlling stake in the embattled company last year.