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MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer Talks Recovery

Larry Kramer founded MarketWatch.com as part of a joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corporation and CBS back in 1997. After years of turmoil, the company, which publishes business news and financial information and tools, achieved profitability in the fourth quarter of 2003 and for the year as...

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Corporate RAIDing on Rise in Storage Arena

The world of data storage can be as confusing as Alice in Wonderland's Tulgy Wood to companies seeking the best and most cost-efficient way to gather and save information. The typical home-user approach -- backing up data on a hard drive -- is not sufficient for corporations. RAID, on the other hand...

Oracle Raises PeopleSoft Bid in ‘Final Offer’

Oracle has raised its bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft to about $9.4 billion, or $26 per share. Oracle's amended offer is a little less than 19 percent higher than PeopleSoft's Tuesday closing price of $21.89 per share. "This is our final price," Jeff Henley, Oracle chairman and CFO, said. Forrester ...

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Linux Rising in China

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced its first Chinese member organization: Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Company, Ltd., which plans to work on the Linux kernel and promote Chinese adoption of Linux on the desktop. Beijing Co-Create is the second Far East organization to jo...

E-Business Steps Up for the Super Bowl

Not everyone watches the Super Bowl just for the football. Given that many of the previous 37 Super Bowls were duller than watching golf on TV, some people would argue that the advertising is as much, if not more, of a reason to watch. This year, Apple, AOL and Monster.com are among the e-businesses...

Amazon Posts First Full-Year Profit

Amazon.com, perhaps the premier e-commerce site, has announced its first-ever full-year profit. According to the company's balance sheet, 2003 net income totaled $35 million. In 2002, despite booking a small fourth-quarter profit, the company recorded a full-year net loss of $149 million. Yankee Gro...

Virginia Tech Migrates G5 Supercomputer to Apple Xserves

Virginia Tech, whose G5 Mac-based supercomputing cluster made headlines last fall as the third fastest supercomputer in the world, has announced it plans to migrate the cluster from Power Mac G5 desktop computers to Apple's recently released Xserve G5 1U server. According to Virginia Tech, the team ...

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Checking in with Check Point President Jerry Ungerman

Jerry Ungerman, president of firewall leader Check Point Software Technologies, oversees the company's worldwide sales, marketing, business development, product management and technical services. The E-Commerce Times spoke with Ungerman last week, on the eve of the company's release of its new Inter...

SCO Accuses Novell in Libel Lawsuit

The SCO Group has accused Novell of libel, claiming Novell interfered in bad faith with SCO's Unix copyrights. SCO's lawyers filed the lawsuit in state court in Utah, where both companies' headquarters are located. "SCO is trying this case in the press with masterful precision," Ted Schadler, vice p...

Check Point Unveils Internal Attack Blocker

Check Point Software Technologies has unveiled its new InterSpect integrated security appliance. According to the company, InterSpect works to protect enterprise networks from attacks that originate internally. Gene Manyak, product marketing manager at Check Point, told the E-Commerce Times that the...

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Experts: VoIP Flaw Will Not Slow Adoption

Earlier this week, Microsoft posted a security patch for a flaw that affects control of VoIP (voice over IP) traffic in its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000. The company rated the flaw's severity as critical and urged users to patch it immediately. VoIP, which lets users phone one anot...

Intel Racks Up Record Revenue in Q4

Intel has revealed that its fourth-quarter revenues reached a record $8.74 billion, with net income of $2.2 billion, or 33 cents per share -- more than double the year-ago tally. "[Those numbers are] telling me that corporate enterprises are now loosening the purse strings on capital expenditures," ...

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Deepening the Firewall: Exclusive Interview with NetScreen Executive Officer David Flynn

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...

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Apple CEO Jobs Trumpets New iLife, iPods

In his latest Macworld keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced a music-creation program called GarageBand, which Jobs described as a pro music tool for everyone, and a 4-GB mini iPod that sports sherbet colors. Perhaps most impressive is the Mini iPod's size: It is approximately as big as a busi...

LOOKING FORWARD

Hope for the Beleaguered: CIO Wish List for 2004

Amid budgetary constraints, enterprise application snafus, and vendors that are slick with their PowerPoint presentations but AWOL with their implementations, the put-upon CIO has become as common a high-tech archetype as the teenage hacker or the jeans-clad, headstrong, bullying CEO "evangelist." W...

IBM Touts New Grid and Autonomic Services

IBM has unveiled new grid and autonomic computer services, coupling business experts from IBM Business Consulting Services and IBM Global Services with technology experts at IBM Research. The goal is to help Big Blue's enterprise customers make heterogeneous environments work together and exploit av...

State of the (Latest) SCO Controversy

With perhaps another 18 months before its case against IBM for copyright infringement goes on trial, SCO has chosen (perhaps ironically) to take its battle against open source out in the open. On Thursday, company CEO Darl McBride posted the first of what he said would be "a series of letters ... ex...

Lights, Camera, Action: Panther Ready for Prime-Time

Since its October 24th release, Apple's latest iteration of its BSD-based OS X software, version 10.3 or "Panther," has received more plaudits than pans throughout the high-tech community. BusinessWeek technology columnist Stephen Wildstrom called Panther "the best operating system available to cons...

IT Careers That Will Bounce Back

Over the last several months the U.S. economy has shown signs of improvement. John Challenger, CEO of outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that there has been a 50 percent drop in high tech job cuts from last year. However, the IT job terrain has c...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Five Patents That Changed E-Business

Considering that e-business as a concept was not part of most people's vocabularies before the 1990s, the number of technologies and processes that have been developed since then is staggering. With the second decade of large-scale e-business dawning, the E-Commerce Times decided to poll several wel...

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