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As the standard for e-business Web sites moves ever higher and online shoppers become increasingly demanding, Web site performance can make the difference between a sale and a lost customer. CEO Tim Drees, who founded privately held Webmetrics in 1999 to provide transaction monitoring services and h...

After years of legal wrangling, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft jointly announced that they have brokered a 10-year "technology collaboration" agreement, plus several related agreements -- including a settlement of all pending legal issues between them. As part of the deals, Microsoft will pay Sun $7...

SBC Communications, one of the telecom industry's landline leaders, announced Tuesday its plans to roll out "FreedomLink" WiFi hotspot service at UPS Store locations throughout the United States. The announcement is the latest stage in the company's overall FreedomLink strategy, which promises to br...

Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. Jon Bair, Guidance's senior director of development, joined the company after years spent working as a U.S. Army investigator and developing the protocols and ...

When most people think about IT forensics, if they think about it at all, they likely imagine a scenario out of the hit TV series CSI. "They make it seem like there's a button that says 'find evidence,'" Robert Shields of forensics software vendor Guidance told the E-Commerce Times. "The way they po...

As a result of stellar sales in the United States, Apple Computer has disappointed European consumers jonesing to get hold of the new iPod Mini. After originally setting an April launch date for the candy-colored portable jukebox, Apple said the iPod Mini will not become available in Europe until Ju...

Novell has made several announcements concerning Linux at its annual BrainShare developers conference and is expected to announce a partnership with HP to bring Linux to its corporate laptop and desktop computers. On Tuesday, meanwhile, Novell announced that IBM had completed a $50 million investmen...

Microsoft's attack against Linux desktop software provider Lindows.com has taken yet another turn, with Lindows' legal counsel filing a motion Monday in U.S. Federal Court seeking to stop the flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has launched in a host of foreign countries over the last sever...

Cisco Systems introduced new products Tuesday that advance the company's so-called "Self-Defending Network" strategy. According to the company, its portfolio of new products works in an autonomic fashion to identify threats, isolate infected endpoints and reconfigure the network in response to intru...

The plague of malware appears to be escalating worldwide. As a worm variant called Netsky.D bombards e-mail inboxes around the globe, an even newer version, Netsky.E, already is being analyzed, according to Joe Hartmann, director of North America antivirus research at Trend Micro. "There has been a ...

In the past, enterprises too often adopted an application strategy that consisted of blindly throwing money at software vendors. Not surprisingly, this was an unwise use of capital. Now, with budgets tight and ROI paramount, companies must define their business processes internally before talking to...

The latest iteration of the MyDoom worm, "MyDoom.F," has Internet security experts worried because, in addition to triggering denial-of-service attacks, it also can delete files from infected computers. MyDoom.F was first identified last Friday and has picked up steam in just the last few days, Soph...

There has been so much buzz in recent years about various enterprise applications -- ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM and more -- that it is no wonder many executives feel underinformed and overwhelmed. "You could take all 26 letters of the alphabet, throw them up in the air, and get something else," Bruce Hudson...

Apple and Pepsi's iTunes giveaway, which promises a free music download coupon under 1 in 3 Pepsi bottlecaps, made a big splash with an ad aired during January's Super Bowl. Now, is the promotion on the rocks following disclosure of a tactic to identify winning bottles without purchasing them first?...

A new worm known as Netsky.B emerged Wednesday. It is the second worm in the Netsky family; an earlier version, Netsky.A, was first identified Tuesday. The worm, which has been reported primarily in Western Europe and Japan, spreads mainly by e-mail. Like many recent worms, it cloaks itself in attra...

The Intel Developer Forum commenced Tuesday with a statement that Intel will outfit its 32-bit Xeon server and workstation processors with 64-bit extensions. According to the company, this technology will become available in the second quarter of 2004. The announcement comes several months after riv...

Judging by its strategy, firewall vendor NetScreen is committed to a holistic view of enterprise security, leading the charge to integrate and deepen the firewall beyond its original parameters. The company's recently released Deep Inspection Firewall, for example, is designed to prevent application...

In response to Microsoft's latest vulnerability announcement, a group of security analysts at Gartner has released a research note that advises enterprises against using Windows Server 2003 in mission-critical applications exposed to the Internet before the second quarter of 2004. The note also reco...

Cable giant Comcast has announced that, despite being rebuffed by Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, it will move ahead with a $54 billion bid to acquire Disney. In a public letter addressed to Eisner, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts wrote: "It is unfortunate that you are not willing to ... enter into discus...

High-speed Internet access provider Covad has announced it will roll out Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to its business and consumer customers. The company noted that, following market trials planned for mid-2004, the rollout will start by the fourth quarter in most of its Metropolitan...