Erin Joyce

Got RSS? If you’re a publisher using the online syndication protocol , sure you do. But are you making money from your ad model with it? Now there’s the rub: How to get more click-throughs back to your content pages and stop being dis-aggregated by the aggregators. We talked with J.B. Holston, the CEO of […]

No matter how advanced IP telephony becomes, or how much it converges with cell phones and drills into our computers, some things never change. We still want to use that familiar old hunk of a phone sitting on our desks. That’s what some of the research into the topic has bubbled up for Avaya , […]

Finally. For those of you reacting with the same word to news that Bill Gates has begun transitioning his way out of his day-to-day at Microsoft in a two-year plan, there is little more to say than that: Finally. No, Microsoft won’t fall apart, nor will its stock price bobble like Apple’s does when Steve […]

All that’s missing is the familiar Vonage jingle from its television commercials playing in the background as the Voice over IP provider scrambles to recover from an IPO marketing nightmare. (Woo ooh. Woo ooh ooh.) Barely a week after Vonage’s stinker of an initial public offering, are customers of the VoIP player thinking of dumping […]

Microsoft is rubbing elbows with partners in newfangled ways, especially as it prepares to roll out security and anti-virus services that compete with the likes of Symantec and McAfee. Mike Nash is also about to embark on a new adventure in the Microsoft world. The head of the company’s security tech unit, who shepherded many […]

The latest version of Yahoo’s “Web 2.0” experience is now peeking out at millions of users, with content about entertainment, sports and e-mail flickering and blinking onto their home pages. No need to hit the refresh button for your favorite Yahoo info fix or service. The portal giant’s piping it all into your home page […]

NEW YORK — Microsoft has every intention of working with networking giant Cisco on network access control protocols in its next version of Windows, the head of Microsoft’s security technology unit said at an event here Monday. “The notion of making sure these two technologies complement each other is a goal,” said Mike Nash, corporate […]

Now that tech bellwether IBM has beat estimates for earnings by 3 cents for the first quarter of 2005, what do the bellwether’s results point to for the tech industry? Merrill Lynch, for one, sees solid results for enterprise software in general, based on the financial tallies from IBM’s software division. In a note today, […]

One more remnant of the U.S. government’s antitrust case against Microsoft has gone away with a federal ruling that denies class action status to 39 plaintiffs who claimed the software company charged them too much as a monopoly. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied their appeal today, saying that indirect purchasers of Microsoft […]

Anti-virus and security software provider McAfee  is moving up its own product stack with the purchase of Web site ratings specialist SiteAdvisor. The company said it plans to use SiteAdvisor’s database of tested and rated Web sites with its own product set, targeting both consumers and business customers. The purchase announcement (which didn’t include a […]

Treb Ryan, the chief executive of OpSource, hasn’t just swallowed the Kool-Aid about the movement in the tech industry to deploy software as a service, known as SaaS. In his words, he’s mainlining it. All joking and dot-com references aside, Ryan has an unshakable belief in the movement to access software applications over the Web, […]

NEW YORK — Twenty years after Microsoft went public, the world’s largest software company is sounding a new drumbeat about products in the pipeline that will fuel its next phase of growth. That roadmap is part of a splashy $500 million advertising campaign that kicked off today, including an insert in major papers such as […]