Erin Joyce

It may not make revenue recognition any easier to decipher among some software companies’ documents, but a new rule requiring public companies to tag their data could usher in true interactivity to publicly filed documents. The rule, approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, mandates the use of the XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) format […]

Storage giant EMC (NYSE: EMC) is wading even farther into new business lines with the latest release of network management tools that bring more smarts to managing enterprise networks. With the latest release of VoyenceControl 4.0, EMC is touting a platform “designed to help system administrators plan, update, fix and manage network change and configuration […]

HerRoom.com, a site that sells ladies underwear, had quite the traffic problem. Despite loads of visits to its bra site, sales were flat. Turns out the site’s section featuring videos of women bounce testing the company’s exercise bras had become quite the hit on YouTube.com. Scattered all over the video-sharing site were women jogging in […]

NEW YORK — A major investor in Yahoo (QUOTE NASDAQ:YHOO) has met with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to see if he would raise a $42 billion unsolicited offer for the company, the New York Post reported on Friday. Capital Research and Management, which owns more than 11 percent of Yahoo shares and more than […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Once again, the issue came down to the wire, but once again, Congress got it done regarding extending the Internet Tax moratorium. As the Nov. 1 deadline for extending the federal ban on some forms of Internet taxation inched closer, the House, perhaps sensing an opportunity for a no-brainer of a bill, closed […]

Vonage is putting on a brave face about the future now that one of its two patent litigation problems is in the rear-view mirror. But one analyst sees more trouble brewing for the Voice over IP provider — chiefly from the competition’s “triple play” prices. Can the standalone Vonage stand it alone? So far, it’s […]

Google is preparing to launch the fifth generation of its enterprise search appliance, this time adding “universal search” features that can access other enterprise content management systems such as those from EMC, IBM and Microsoft, InternetNews.com has learned. According to an internal document from the company, Google Search Appliance version 5.0 will include universal search […]

Enterprise software giant SAP plans to acquire software firm Business Objects in a $6.7 billion deal, (€4.8 billion), a move that vaults SAP ahead of the pack in the growing business intelligence space. It also will help the German software firm leverage Business Objects’ investments in providing its product lines as a service. Business Objects, […]

Call it a kind of best-of-breed approach to building rich applications: Take one useful part of this application, good parts of another, and build a super composite that zips across the Web. Then use it again. IBM, however, explains its latest service oriented architecture (SOA) products and service offerings a bit differently. The tech bellwether’s […]

UPDATED: The legal strategy is unfolding between enterprise software rivals Oracle and SAP over Oracle’s lawsuit charging that SAP stole massive amounts of its intellectual property. SAP is on the offensive, accusing Oracle of being too “dramatic” and inaccurate with its allegations that SAP’s TomorrowNow subsidiary engaged in “massive theft” by downloading materials from Oracle’s […]

NEW YORK — We have seen the rise of Web 2.0 and social networks. But where does it all go? For starters, collaboration — which is really at the core of Web 2.0 technologies. For Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft , and John Chambers, CEO of Cisco , this next wave of innovation via Web […]

Tech bellwether IBM’s second quarter profit rose by close to 12 percent, driven by surging growth in software and strong demand across Asian and European markets. The results beat expectations and reflected strong results across all divisions as well. Revenues rose to $23.8 billion for the quarter ended June 30th, up by about 9 percent […]