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Red Hat Goes on Offensive with SCO Suit

Leading Linux vendor Red Hat has filed suit against The SCO Group, aiming to prove that Red Hat software does not infringe on SCO patents and to stop SCO from making what it called "untrue" statements. ...

OPINION

The Musical Tempest in a Digital Teapot

Newsflash: Apple is the market leader in digital music downloading, with more than 6 million song tracks sold in less than four months through its iTunes Music Store. That's good news for the computer company, which usually has to resort to the cold comfort of knowing that while people think its products rock, they don't buy them in nearly the numbers they do competitors' inferior machines.

IBM Scores Billion-Dollar Outsourcing Deal

IBM has become the latest computer services giant to score a billion-dollar outsourcing deal, signing a 10-year, US$1.1 billion agreement to handle the computer infrastructure needs of Switzerland-based power-services company ABB. In the race to ink high-profile services deals, this is just the latest in a string of victories for IBM's Global Services division...

Oracle Taps Sun To Challenge Microsoft

Saying their combined assets can drive down the cost of deploying real-time collaboration software, Sun Microsystems and Oracle have announced plans to work together to spread the word about the benefits of their alternatives to Microsoft's dominant Office suite ...

Microsoft To Ramp Up R&D, Hiring

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. ...

Microsoft To Ramp Up R&D, Hiring

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. ...

Microsoft To Ramp Up R&D, Hiring

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. ...

HP Scoops Up Voice Portal Firm

Hewlett-Packard has purchased a Swedish software firm that specializes in interactive voice solutions, saying it will roll the smaller company's VoiceXML-based products into its own OpenCall offerings, which are geared toward the telecom industry. ...

OPINION

Intel and Webvan: A Tale of Two Anniversaries

Pity the people with summer birthdays or anniversaries. Their milestones often go overlooked amid the rush to beat traffic to the beach or get the barbecue fired up. ...

AOL Posts $1B Profit But Warns on Net Division

Offering a reminder of just how quickly things can change in the world of business, AOL Time Warner booked a US$1 billion profit for the second quarter -- just six months after posting the largest-ever one-year loss by a U.S. firm. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Security Threats That Can’t Be Stopped

While enterprises face all kinds of security risks, including vulnerabilities that must be patched and viruses that bombard corporate firewalls, the threats that strike the most fear into the hearts of chief security officers and their employees are the ones nobody has thought of yet. ...

Intel Taps Linksys for Wireless Networking Push

Chipmaker Intel has forged an alliance with Linksys, the home and small office networking provider recently acquired by Cisco as part of that company's push into emerging markets. ...

Microsoft Set To Hook Up with Cable Giants

Microsoft plans to announce that the two largest cable television providers in the United States, Time Warner Cable and Comcast, will test its interactive program guide (IPG) software in their set-top boxes in limited markets. ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Microsoft – The New Antivirus Behemoth?

Nothing Microsoft does goes unnoticed or underanalyzed -- and, true to form, the company's purchase of an obscure but well-regarded Romanian antivirus firm last month has sparked a torrent of speculation about its intentions in the security arena. ...

Microsoft Misses Targets Despite Strong Sales

With server software sales booming, Microsoft recorded a 26 percent gain in earnings, to US$1.92 billion, for its recently ended fourth quarter -- but the software giant also posted a rare miss of analysts' profit targets. ...

Apple Beats Street Amid Mixed Earnings Season

Apple Computer outpaced expectations with its latest earnings, posting a profit as strong sales of non-desktop machines led the company to its best revenue-generating quarter in more than two years. ...

AOL Cuts Netscape Staff as Mozilla Goes Solo

In a sign that one of the main combatants in the browser wars is ready to lay down its arms, AOL has cut workers from its already shrunken Netscape division and has cut loose the Mozilla open source browser project ...

OPINION

Merger Mania: The Good, Bad and Ugly

The tech world's pie-eyed optimists want us to believe that the helter-skelter past few weeks on the mergers-and-acquisitions front is a good omen, a sign of great things to come for the economy in general and technology in particular. ...

AMD, Fujitsu Join Forces To Master Flash Market

No. 2 chipmaker AMD has unveiled a joint venture with Japan-based Fujitsu, creating a US$3 billion global company bent on mastering the market for flash memory products. ...

Yahoo Goes for Overture in $1.6B Deal

In a move that could dramatically alter the booming search engine marketplace, Yahoo has announced plans to acquire Overture, the company credited with pioneering the pay-for-placement search business model, in a cash-and-stock deal worth more than US$1.6 billion. ...

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