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VeriSign has announced it plans to sell its Network Solutions business unit to Pivotal Private Equity, a Phoenix, Arizona-based firm known for acquiring underperforming companies, for approximately $100 million. Gartner principal analyst Ted Chamberlin told the E-Commerce Times that Network Solution...

Since March, when the SCO Group filed suit against IBM for allegedly using proprietary SCO Unix code in its Linux systems, it has made headlines nearly every week. And in the last 52 weeks, SCO's stock price has soared from as little as 78 cents per share to more than $20 per share. Regardless of in...

Napster, the onetime file-swapping nexus that sparked fear in the hearts -- and bottom lines -- of record labels, has officially been tamed and will relaunch as a legitimate online music service, parent company Roxio has announced. Napster 2.0 will be available to U.S. residents on October 29th. Use...

Last month at the IBLS Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce, Pauline Reich, an associate professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, gave a speech entitled "Legal Issues: Internet and E-mail in the Workplace." During her talk, Reich explored the worldwide evolution of procedures ...

Cisco Systems has been synonymous with routers for nearly 20 years and commands more than 90 percent of the enterprise market. Still, the company does have competitors, especially in sectors that crave speed. For example, when service providers like MCI/WorldCom, Sprint and AT&T update their inf...

In conjunction with WebEx, Yahoo is now taking orders for its Business Messenger service. The company will demonstrate the service during the Instant Messaging Planet Conference October 15th and 16th at the San Jose Convention Center. Yahoo also announced that two clients already have started using ...

In mid-September, U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson kicked off the Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce with a keynote address that touched on several pertinent e-commerce topics, the role the FTC has assumed as the Internet has developed into a business channel, and issues that leg...

In Part 1 of this story, The Mac Observer publisher Bryan Chaffin told the E-Commerce Times that the market standing of Apple's iPod will play a critical role in determining iTunes' success. However, the iPod faces increasing competition. Dell recently announced a new hard drive-based music player, ...

Before the year is out, Apple plans to launch a Windows version of its well-received iTunes Music Store. However, iTunes' success thus far -- Apple has sold 10 million songs through the Mac-only version -- has galvanized other sellers of digital music, which are launching Windows-based services at a...

The chief technology officer of @stake, an IT security company with close ties to Microsoft, was reportedly terminated by his company just after he released a report critical of the Redmond, Washington-based software vendor. Daniel Geer, also one of the founders of the company, is principal author o...

Amid all the publicity WiFi has received in the last year, another high-speed mobile networking technology, known as 3G, appears to have been left in the dust. Yet 3G was once an industry darling -- and the center of a bandwidth feeding frenzy that saw giant corporations shelling out billions of dol...

IBM and GE Interlogix, a division of General Electric that designs, develops and manufactures physical security devices, such as digital video systems and access control boxes, have announced they are teaming up to provide integrated security solutions to their customers. Forrester senior analyst La...

In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux' potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun's proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more mission-critical functions. What is the future of Solaris in a world where Linux shares the limelight? In part 2...

Setting up the perfect enterprise server architecture seemed straightforward just a few years ago. "You went with [Sun Microsystems'] Solaris for the OS, put Oracle on top of Solaris for the database, used EMC for storage, and Cisco for routers," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told the E-C...

Informatica, a supplier of data integration and business intelligence solutions, has announced it plans to buy Striva Corporation in a cash-and-stock transaction worth about $62 million. Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica, told the E-Commerce Times that Striva...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is planning to offer file swappers a reprieve from prosecution, provided they adhere to certain conditions, according to published reports. People who have illegally downloaded copyrighted music files allegedly would be required to destroy all of ...

As 2003 dawned, Linux seemed poised to take off. However, in March, SCO sued IBM for allegedly using its proprietary Unix code without compensation. Industry experts have expressed skepticism about the suit, but at the same time, research firm Gartner has cautioned clients against embarking on full-...

Amazon.com has sued 11 entities in the United States and Canada for forging its domain name in their e-mail spam messages. The lawsuits seek millions of dollars in punitive damages. Gartner research director Maurene Grey told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon would have had a lot to lose from a credi...

In the month of August alone, Microsoft has had to contend with nearly half a dozen major worms, including MSBlast, two variants of SoBig and Nachi/Welchia, a so-called "good" worm that nevertheless is creating headaches for IT departments. Now, the company has released yet another security bulletin...

As predicted last week in TechNewsWorld's "Profile of a SuperWorm," the latest variant in the SoBig worm family has been unleashed, with Internet security firms reporting that several copies have been found in the wild. SoBig.F takes control of an infected PC, then creates and sends e-mail messages ...