Erin Joyce

News of the U.S.’s first case of mad cow disease threw a cloud over trading during an abbreviated Christmas Eve session Wednesday, but Micron Technology turned out to be a shining star in the tech sector. The second largest maker of computer memory chips reported that its profit for its first fiscal quarter of 2004 […]

Profits for number one Linux distributor RedHat soared during its fiscal third quarter of 2004 to $4.1 million (2 cents per share), a difference of about eighteen hundred percent from the same time last year. Net income during the same quarter last year was $214,000, or break-even. The company made the announcement on the same […]

Strong demand from consumers, along with continued cut-rate prices and interest in portable devices will help drive worldwide PC growth in the fourth quarter of 2003 and into 2004, according to tech research firm IDC. In addition, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker found that strong third quarter results and projected growth of 15.3 percent in […]

IBM’s roots may be in New York, but the heart of its next-generation on demand strategy is in Silicon Valley, where Big Blue has opened up its first on demand “center of competency.” The e-business on demand lab, located in San Jose, is where clients can essentially test drive their On Demand initiatives before they […]

In another sign that the world’s largest software company is intent on changing its past behavior, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new policy of expanded access to its intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The new licensing policy includes royalty-bearing terms (and an expansion of royalty-free access) for the company’s portfolio, which includes over 4,000 patents (with […]

Open source advocates say IT research bears out their claims that the many flavors of Linux are making steady strides in enterprise deployments. But ask open source fans to comment on IBM’s refusal to indemnify its Linux customers in the face of litigation over copyright disputes in some Linux code, and the arguments tend to […]

Microsoft’s recent announcement that it would offer royalty-free licensing for its Extensible Markup Language schemas in Office 2003 has both the software giant and open-source advocates claiming victory for the open standards movement. But analysts and industry experts say the real winners are the independent software vendors (ISVs), whose hearts and minds are up for […]

Critics of Microsoft’s integration policies had their say this week during European Commission hearings into whether Microsoft is stifling competition. Since Wednesday, European regulators have been hearing Microsoft’s side of the story regarding charges that it used illegal tactics in order to extend its dominant market share for personal computer operating systems into the market […]

Strong global sales in servers and storage systems helped computer maker Dell meet expectations for its fiscal third quarter and predict higher sales for the holiday shopping season. But the Round Rock, Texas-based company hinted Thursday that the jury was still out on how its holiday enterprise sales would turn out. Net income for the […]

The European Commission opens hearings today over whether Microsoft’s integration of its media player and server software with the Windows operating system is stifling competition there. The case could revive and even extend antitrust litigation beyond charges Microsoft has settled in the U.S. The hearing, which Microsoft requested, is seen as reviving long-running arguments over […]

Microsoft and EDGAR Online , an online distributor of Securities and Exchange Commission documents, are teaming up in order to help companies eliminate the need to re-enter financial data about public companies into Excel spreadsheets. At the XBRL International Conference in Seattle, Microsoft and Edgar Online gave attendees a peek of its pre-release version of […]

Top developers at Microsoft are working on a new graphics and animation toolset for Longhorn (the next generation of Windows) that could spell trouble for Macromedia’s popular Flash MX and Director MX animation tools, sources familiar with the situation told internetnews.com. Code-named “Sparkle,” the tools under development would be integrated with Microsoft’s .NET runtime environment. […]