IAB issues new guidelines for online ad measurement
Retailers may not be penciling in hefty increases to their IT budget lines this year, but they won't be doing any mad slashing either.
Stories by Carol Sliwa
Retail CEOs cautious on IT spending in 2002
Retailers may not be penciling in hefty increases to their IT budget lines this year, but they won't be doing any mad slashing either.
WWRE taps IBM and webMethods for integration
WorldWide Retail Exchange LLC today announced its selection of IBM Corp. and webMethods Inc. to provide the integration that technology members will need to participate in its business-to-business electronic marketplace.
Microsoft to wind down support for Windows NT 4.0
Corporate users can plan ahead now that Microsoft Corp. has disclosed the support discontinuance dates for the 5-year-old Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system.
Microsoft sets support cutoff dates for Windows NT
Microsoft is telling customers that support for its five-year-old Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system will start to be phased out starting January 1, 2003.
Online sales strong; e-retailers cautious on spending
This year's online holiday shopping season may be used as a barometer to gauge the effects of the economic downturn and the tragic events of Sept. 11.
Interview: Microsoft VP details new approach to business
Microsoft Corp. last month launched a Solution for Intranets and a Solution for Supplier Enablement, the first two in a planned series of integrated software, service and support packages aimed at helping companies address specific business problems.
Microsoft shifts to pitching 'Solutions'
Corporate users may start to notice that Microsoft Corp. isn't merely pitching individual products anymore.
Microsoft offers B-to-B tools for wary suppliers
Scores of suppliers have been resistant to hopping on the electronic business-to-business bandwagon, fearing that they will be so commoditized or pressured by comparative pricing that they will fail to see much benefit from shelling out potentially big bucks to get there.
Corporate uses envisioned for Tablet PC
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates promoted the Tablet PC during his Comdex keynote address for the second straight year, even though the machines aren't expected to be ready for another year. And the prototypes that PC makers unveiled this week give potential users only a glimpse of what they might see in shipping products.
Comdex expects attendance dip
Securing a hotel room in Las Vegas during Comdex week has traditionally amounted to an exercise in futility. But this year, vacancy signs are up and rates are down.
Microsoft offers suppliers new software, services
Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of a new Solution for Supplier Enablement, which aims to help companies connect to their customers' electronic procurement systems or marketplaces in a more cost-effective manner.
Microsoft offers details of .Net My Services
Microsoft Corp. yesterday unveiled an early version of a software tool kit that developers can use to build links to the wide range of Web-based services, such as authentication and an alert system for notifying users of critical time-sensitive information, that it will make available to end users over the course of the next year.
IT declarations flooding into Comdisco
Disaster declarations are beginning to hit technology providers that help businesses recover their IT systems in the wake of catastrophic events.
Microsoft license changes anger IT managers
Microsoft gave customers a temporary reprieve earlier this summer when it postponed some of the controversial volume license changes that had been scheduled to take effect October 1. But even with deadlines extended to the end of February, some IT managers are still having a tough time stomaching the changes announced in May, particularly since new licenses or product upgrades may cost them more money.