Erin Joyce

Ultra wideband will be first to super-charge wireless personal area networks in homes with its blazing throughput speeds. But it won’t last. One of Wi-Fi’s latest flavors, 802.11n , will hop right over the protocol in the digitally networked home as the preferred method of shooting media from one device to another. That’s the latest […]

Now that an appeal to increase Microsoft’s penalties for abusing its monopoly and violating antitrust law has been effectively denied, will the past be a prologue to Microsoft’s future business tactics? Analysts, experts and lawyers involved with the appeal agree that Microsoft is now free to repeat the same exclusionary tactics that got the company […]

Clicks and bricks retailers Amazon.com and Toys R Us are in mediation with hopes of saving their partnership after Amazon.com slapped a counter suit on its marketing partner and called for an end to their 10-year marketing marriage. In a recent court filing, Amazon.com also asked for at least $750 million in damages from Toys […]

Public relations and corporate communications firms have long tracked how their companies are covered in the press, from traditional “clipping” services to building databases of articles, writers, and topics, and rating their coverage. But compared to other business intelligence packages, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and sales analytics, media and marketing-related packages are still […]

Now that long-standing, federally mandated, network-access rules are essentially on the way out among local and long-distance phone providers, who’s up and who’s down? In the money or out of business? The short answer is: no one’s quite sure, though a lot of educated observations abound. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is slated to set […]

NEW YORK — If markets are a conversation, then companies need to pay close attention to what’s being said about their products in the blogosphere’s marketplace of ideas, Weblogging and tech executives said at the Internet Planet conference here Wednesday. The challenge for companies mulling how to use the growth of Weblogs to their advantage […]

While it tries to prove that the enterprise software market is more diverse than the feds think, Oracle announced profits had jumped by 15 percent to $990 million (19 cents per share). The higher net income during its fourth quarter, which ended May 31st, was spurred in part by its grid strategy, and an overall […]

Manufacturers of semiconductor fabrication equipment can often undergo a peaks-and-valleys lifecycle, at least when it comes to spikes in resources. But for all the waste baked into their computing systems, you’d be hard-pressed to find a manufacturer ordering up computing systems from an on-demand systems supplier. Until now. IBM, which is aggressively moving to expand […]

As the industry saying goes, UK-based telecom giant BT and systems provider HP are “eating their own (outsourcing) dog food” — and it tastes good. The two companies recently hired each other for outsourcing services valued at about $1.5 billion over seven years. At the same time, they are pitching a similar menu to their […]

NEW YORK — To the world’s largest auto manufacturer, information technology means cutting manufacturing time to market, creating smarter cars, shaving internal costs and launching a phenomenal new era in cars, a General Motors information technology executive said. IT is central to the company, said Tony Scott, chief technology officer for GM’s Information Systems and […]

UPDATED: CeBIT America rolls into New York City this week, with an army of tech experts geared up to help decision-makers untie or just cut any Gordian knots of decision-making for the enterprise. Featuring a range of tracks, including the Future of Open Source, everything you ever wanted to know about Windows 2003 and Beyond, […]

Technology scribes and big thinkers alike will look back on 2004 as one of those pivotal years when the tectonic plates shifted beneath the computing industry. Like 1981, when IBM’s fateful decision to license an operating system from a then-unknown company gave rise to Microsoft, or, in 1995, when the Netscape IPO primed the tech […]