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By Sean Michael Kerner Following a trend by foreign administrations, the Israeli government this week suspended its acquisitions of new computer software from Microsoft . Price issues and the U.S. company’s refusal to sell individual programs from its standard software package are cited as the main reason behind the switch, according Associated Press reports. Instead, […]

The 2003 holiday shopping season proved to be a boon for online retailers with shoppers spending $13 billion just between Nov. 1 and Dec. 12 alone. Online shoppers spent $2.95 billion during the second week in December, an increase of 48 percent from 2002, according to a report from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive., […]

Wireless networking gear maker SMC has started shipping new enterprise-class access points that support the 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards. The $800 EliteConnect Universal Wireless Access Point supports the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security protocol and up to 152-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption, as well as 802.1x authentication and dynamic key management. It also […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Organizers for Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark are making open source part of the candidate’s platform with plans to release new “campaign-ware” open source applications this week. According to a group of Clark volunteers called TechCorps, the effort is a way “for developers, software testers, and technical writers to develop open […]

The average Internet activity — both at work and at home — in November 2003 for surfers in the U.S., UK, and Australia, as reported by Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.. Average Web Usage, U.S., November 2003   Home Work Number of Sessions/Visits Per Person 31 61 Number of Domains Visited Per Person 56 94 PC Time Per […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Two Japanese technology titans Thursday pledged to combine business units in a new joint venture to produce compound semiconductor devices to serve the broadband and home networking markets. Japan-based Fujitsu will merge its Fujitsu Quantum Devices Limited subsidiary, which is focused on the development of compound semiconductors, with the electronic devices […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Next year could be one in which both the Yahoo! and MSN portals fully embrace paid inclusion in their search strategies, but don’t expect much growth in the market until 2005, according to a recent study on the paid inclusion market by Jupiter Research. The December report, “Paid Inclusion Market Opportunity […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Update: Online consumers spent $2.95 billion during the second week of December, up over 48 percent compared to the same time last year, according to new surveys. Online measurement research firm Comscore, whose measurement period of the early part of December took place during severe Winter storms in the eastern part […]

By Sean Kerner Research In Motion continues to expand its reach and distribution, despite pending legal actions that threaten its ability to do business in the United States. The maker of the popular BlackBerry devices on Monday said its wireless e-mail technologies will be integrated into Sony Ericsson’s mobile phones. The pact is part of […]

By Michael Floyd The SCO Group’s lawsuit against IBM and new warnings of legal action by SCO against other companies over its claim that copyrighted code slipped into select versions of the Linux kernel are not slowing deployments of the open source operating system, an upcoming study has found. Evan Bauer, a principal research fellow […]

Amsterdam-based PicoPoint, founder of the Global Broadband Internet Access (GBIA) network, has added another member. Now 13 million KPN Royal Dutch Telecommunications mobile customers in Belgium and Germany (via E-Plus) can roam on the network’s 1,900 hotspots found in countries such as the UK, South Africa, Kuwait and even in the United States (via Surf […]

Bluefly, Inc. , one of the most volatile of all Internet stocks in recent years, surged 24 percent Monday on news that monthly net sales were up by 16 percent. The increase was for November 2003, compared to the previous year. Sales were $3.6 million last month, compared to $3.1 million for November 2002. It […]