Bob Liu

After a three-year slump, certain areas of innovation in the infrastructure software sector will help lead a ‘modest’ recovery as technology becomes increasingly tied to an enterprise’s business processes, according to a new report from Deutsche Bank. “Companies must understand the linkages between its business requirements and goals and the underlying technology infrastructure,” the DB […]

NEW YORK — Unisys Corporation on Tuesday launched a major new initiative designed to help clients quickly adapt their businesses to change and enable cost savings between 25 and 60 percent from improved business processes, reduced cycle times and elimination of redundancy. Called “Unisys Business Blueprinting,” the measure represents the Blue Bell, Pa.-based company’s attempt […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced it will work with the world’s leading cellular phone manufacturers on common testing criteria to certify compliance with the J2ME with support for the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 specification . Over the course of a two-month period, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based networking computer company worked with officials from Nokia […]

Sun Microsystems is hoping to kick off the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco with a heavy emphasis on two particular fields of Java-based software development: wireless platforms and Web services. But in part due to the fact that the Web services side of the equation has been highly fragmented by industry competitors, the Santa Clara, […]

IBM plans to show off its commitment to Java-based pervasive computing at this week’s JavaOne Conference in San Francisco by unveiling Palm as well as two other leading device manufacturers as its newest partners for the Websphere Micro Environment (WME), a Java-powered embedded runtime environment. On Tuesday, IBM plans to announce that Palm and QNX […]

IBM’s disclosure of a formal investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) isn’t expected to shake up confidence in the Armonk, NY-based computer giant’s management team, but does serve to highlight the increased scrutiny that corporate executives are facing in the post-Enron/post-WorldCom era, experts said. Late Monday, IBM disclosed it had received an […]

IBM on Monday said it received notice of a formal, non-public investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into its revenue recognition practices for 2000 and 2001. The Armonk, NY-based computer giant said the SEC is seeking information primarily concerning certain types of customer transactions but declined to specify the details. In its […]

Despite the highly publicized efforts of copyright holders to fight the piracy of their digital content, implementation of digital rights management (DRM) solutions has been held up by outstanding issues of contention betwen those content developers and distributions and IT vendors, a new study said. The findings by high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR will likely […]

A federal judge in Los Angeles has issued a complicated order in a case that could impact the ecommerce industry’s ability to claim “safe harbor” protection against secondary copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). On Friday, Judge Terry Hatter of U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, accepted […]

We learned many things about the spam problem during the Federal Trade Commission’s forum. But certainly one of the more interesting is how Washington can take a topic as annoying as those unsolicited commercial emails and politicize it to the point where absolutely nothing gets done. There’s a word for that: bureaucracy. This week’s efforts […]

NEW YORK — Customers will demand higher performance 64-bit computing, which until now has been reserved only for buyers of costly proprietary architectures, said AMD President and CEO Hector Ruiz Tuesday. Speaking here at AMD’s launch event for the new Opteron 64-bit processor, the 57-year-old chief executive said customers are demanding greater performance because more […]

Wal-Mart Stores has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a satirical Web site that hosted a service where visitors can re-print Universal Product Codes (UPC) bar codes onto labels to discount goods sold in stores. “It’s theft and deception,” said Tom Williams, a spokesman for the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailing giant. “It’s […]