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Dell's fiscal second-quarter numbers demonstrated growth in both its consumer and enterprise operations, with revenue of $9.8 billion, up 16 percent from the year-ago period. In addition, the computer maker reported increased growth and profitability worldwide, bucking overall industry trends. Perha...

Google has announced that sales of its Google Search Appliance increased 200 percent in the last year. According to Google, high-level business and government entities that have installed the GSA for use on their own intranets and the Internet include the U.S. Army, Nextel, Xerox, Procter & Gamb...

SCO has announced that it will sell intellectual property licenses to make it legal for enterprises to run Linux, which allegedly uses portions of SCO's proprietary Unix source code. The company is offering an introductory license price of $699 per CPU until October 15, 2003, after which the price p...

As the LinuxWorld conference kicks off, Novell has announced the purchase of Ximian, a privately held company known as a trailblazer in the open-source space, for an undisclosed all-cash amount. "Novell sees the handwriting on the wall," Aberdeen research director Bill Claybrook told the E-Commerce ...

Qwest Communications and Sprint have jointly announced that Sprint will wholesale its PCS Vision voice and data services to Qwest customers under an exclusive agreement. The deal offers Sprint a new sales channel, especially for PCS Vision's data services, and Qwest now will be able to offer its wir...

Buzz about WiFi has swelled to a dull roar this year. Ads for laptops highlight Intel's Centrino technology, which gives users wireless networking capabilities without requiring them to buy a separate PCI card. Across the United States, Starbucks enables customers to check e-mail wirelessly, and McD...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an updated advisory entitled "Potential for Significant Impact on Internet Operations Due to Vulnerability in Microsoft Operating Systems." The warning listed all the major iterations of Windows server platforms as well as client-side Windows XP. The a...

Sprint PCS and Samsung have announced a new gaming accessory that will convert certain Samsung mobile phones into gaming devices. Called the PCS Game Pad, the add-on works only with Samsung's new A600 mobile phone, which was released in conjunction with the announcement. The phone retails for about ...

Microsoft has revealed portions of its Windows source code to a dozen foreign governments as part of its Government Security Program Initiative, Microsoft spokesperson Alex Mercer told the E-Commerce Times. The initiative allows controlled access to the code so that foreign governments and organizat...

Part 1 of this article discussed the relative advantages and disadvantages of IBM's DB2 and Oracle's 9i software. However, IBM and Oracle are not the only vendors in the database race. Microsoft has seen tremendous growth in the last few years for its Windows-only SQL Server. "Microsoft leads all ve...

A group of companies in the mobile device industry has established a new organization dedicated to defining and endorsing open standards for mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs. The four founding members of the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) Alliance are STMicroelectronics, Texa...

Although databases have been a fundamental component of the enterprise IT stable for decades, they now seem to be multiplying faster than ever before, both in number and in importance. Many enterprises now rely on hundreds or thousands of databases, and administering them has become a major challeng...

On paper, the allure of no-name PCs, or "white boxes," may seem almost irresistible. Today's typical white boxes are equipped with industry-standard Intel motherboards and processors and are usually cheaper than their branded counterparts. But if no-name hardware is such a bargain, why are so many b...

Microsoft has released a security bulletin warning that a flaw in the DirectX graphic interface in a majority of Windows computers leaves users vulnerable to buffer overruns The vulnerability allows hackers to execute code on a user's PC at the user's security level. It affects PCs running Windows 9...

Macromedia Flash technology garnered a shaky reputation at the height of dot-com mania in the 1990s, when it was often associated with Web site splash pages that effectively barred users from accessing a site's useful content. But things have changed: Flash is now a nearly ubiquitous environment for...

Sprint has announced plans to offer PCS WiFi Access, a service that will let customers connect wirelessly to the Internet via either WiFi hot spots or its own Nationwide PCS Network. Sprint PCS spokesperson Suzanne Lammers told the E-Commerce Times that the new service is expected to launch before S...

PeopleSoft has completed its tender offer for ERP vendor J.D. Edwards. Both companies noted that PeopleSoft now owns 88 percent of J.D. Edwards' outstanding shares and will buy the remaining 12 percent by the end of August. PeopleSoft estimated the transaction was worth about $1.8 billion in total. ...

Apple's new server OS, known as Panther, is slated to launch before year's end with new capabilities that will be "awesome solutions for an awful lot of customers," according to Apple server software director Tom Goguen. While it is not surprising to hear Apple referring to its products as "awesome"...

For many years, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have collaborated to make their products work together. On the surface, it seems that the two companies' symbiosis runs deep and greatly benefits both parties. The real question is, how will the relationship weather such hurdles as the ascent of Linux? C...

A little over a year ago, an international consortium of four vendors announced they were pooling their talents and resources to create UnitedLinux -- a new, standardized flavor of the open-source Linux OS. However, UnitedLinux has not made many headlines since then, and SCO, one of the consortium m...