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Has SCO Killed UnitedLinux?

A little over a year ago, an international consortium of four vendors announced they were pooling their talents and resources to create a new, standardized flavor of the open-source Linux OS. The initiative was known as UnitedLinux, and the goal was to create a version of Linux that businesses and other organizations could trust for uniform reliability...

Dell To Offer Mobile Net Access via AT&T Wireless

Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM (global system for mobile communications)- and GPRS (general packet radio service)-based technologies ...

Dell To Offer Mobile Net Access via AT&T Wireless

Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM (global system for mobile communications)- and GPRS (general packet radio service)-based technologies ...

Dell To Offer Mobile Net Access via AT&T Wireless

Dell and AT&T Wireless have announced a joint agreement that will allow Dell's mobile computer customers to access the Internet wirelessly using AT&T's GSM (global system for mobile communications)- and GPRS (general packet radio service)-based technologies ...

Apple Hits New Mark with Power Mac G5

Apple Computer has unveiled its next-generation Power Macs, based on IBM's new 64-bit processor chip, the PowerPC G5. "The 64-bit revolution has begun, and the personal computer will never be the same again," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco ...

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Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover

In macro terms, the hostile takeover has been a common, if generally reviled, tactic throughout human history. But does this art of war hold up over the long term in the business world? Are there times when such shotgun marriages turn out to be the right decision for the parties involved? Amid the Oracle-PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards melee, now seems like the right time to ask this pressing question...

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Linux (Finally) Ready for the Desktop

Ignoring a personal entreaty (and a 15 percent licensing discount) from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the city of Munich, Germany, decided recently to migrate its 14,000 PC desktop users from Windows to the Linux platform ...

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Can Apple Break the 5 Percent Barrier?

Apple Computer has accomplished a raft of goals since Steve Jobs returned to its helm in 1997. It has revolutionized the consumer PC with two generations of iMacs; pioneered the so-called digital hub concept, which gives consumers the ability to assemble movies as well as catalog and manipulate digital photographs; introduced the iPod, considered by many Mac and Windows users to be the best digital music player ever developed; and recently launched the iTunes Music Store, which allows users to pay for and download songs without being tied to complicated subscription agreements or limitations on how purchased media can be played...

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Dell to HP: Catch Me If You Can

When Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq just over a year ago, the combined company surpassed Dell in PC sales -- but with continued yearly growth rates of more than 20 percent, Dell had regained the top spot by the first quarter of this year. Moreover, just last week, Dell reported its worldwide shipments had increased by nearly 30 percent year over year and revenues had jumped 18 percent in the same time period...

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Secrets of Internet Sales Tax

In recent months, a few large e-tailers, including Target.com and Walmart.com (NYSE: WMT), started charging sales tax on purchases made through their sites. Although this event took place largely without fanfare, it marked a watershed moment in the history of online commerce. ...

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Is Apple the Next Music Titan?

Apple's new iTunes Music Store might be justifiably called Napster's legitimate heir. Unlike competing music services like PressPlay or Rhapsody, the iTunes Store does not entail complicated subscriptions, mandatory fees or inconsistent pricing schemes. Instead, users may choose from a catalog of more than 200,000 songs encompassing selections from all of the "Big 5" record labels -- and once a song is purchased for a flat 99-cent fee, it can be burned to a CD or copied to another computer or iPod device with few restrictions...

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The Business Case for Windows Server 2003, Part 2

As Microsoft ramps up its Windows Server 2003 launch, enterprises large and small are trying to decide whether to upgrade to the new platform. Analysts interviewed for part 1 of this article agreed that, on the whole, Microsoft's latest server OS is solid, stable and offers useful new features. ...

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The Business Case for Windows Server 2003, Part 1

After much waiting and ample fanfare, Microsoft finally is launching its Windows Server 2003 platform. Although the company declined to comment, its Web site bills the new operating system as "a highly productive infrastructure that helps make your network a strategic asset for your organization." ...

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Does Apple Still Need Microsoft?

Nearly six years have passed since Microsoft agreed to invest US$150 million in Apple Computer and continue developing Mac versions of its Office application suite for at least five years ...

I-Marketing Interview: Hewlett-Packard

Marius Haas, vice president of worldwide e-business mindshare at Hewlett-Packard, worked for Compaq for seven years before that company merged with HP. He also led efforts to integrate both companies' e-business groups during the nine months preceding the official merger. According to Haas, that integration has gone well ...

Nintendo Enters Price War with $50 GameCube Cut

Nintendo announced Monday that it is cutting the U.S. price of its GameCube gaming console to US$149.95, a 25 percent reduction from the original list price of $199. The reduced price will take effect Tuesday ...

Microsoft Judge Stakes Out Scope of Settlement

The U.S. District Court judge presiding over the Microsoft antitrust settlement posed several questions Wednesday about the extent of proposed penalties to be levied against the software giant ...

Microsoft Reportedly Buying Navision for $1.2B

According to reports, Microsoft is expected to purchase Danish enterprise software company Navision for about US$1.2 billion ...

Amazon Expects To Beat Q1 Forecast

Providing a welcome dose of good news amid a flurry of dire earnings forecasts, e-tail giant Amazon.com said Monday that it would post a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter due to surging electronic sales ...

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