Susan Kuchinskas

We’re always hardest on ourselves, and the e-commerce industry is no different. When research firm ForeSee Results asked e-commerce insiders to rate the online shopping experience, they gave it a barely passing grade. “[Survey respondents] are the most internet savvy crowd there is,” ForeSee CEO Larry Freed told internetnews.com. “They know how it should work, […]

Oracle extended its tender offer for Peoplesoft common stock Friday, giving shareholders of the Pleasanton, Calif.-based enterprise software vendor until September 19 to take advantage of its offer to buy their shares at around 8.5 percent above the street’s price. It’s the third time the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant has extended the offer to […]

A wireless standard to let machines communicate with each other over short range was embraced by the manufacturers who’ll try to make money using it. On Thursday, the ZigBee Alliance endorsed the IEEE’s 802.15.4 standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a trade association of software, hardware and services companies working to create an open global standard […]

Intel may be paying the IRS piper to the tune of $600 million plus interest, according to its latest Form 10-Q filing with the SEC on Wednesday. The required financial statement noted that the IRS proposed an adjustment to Intel’s 1999 and 2000 tax returns. A notice, received by Intel on August 4, said the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Linux software and services vendor Red Hat Tuesday said it will release its new bundled enterprise management solution (code-named Taroon) this fall. The announcement is part of the Raleigh, N.C.-based company’s ongoing strategy to bring Linux to corporate server rooms in one easy to swallow package as well as bolster its Web […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems is all over Linux, company executive vice president of software Jonathan Schwartz told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Tuesday. And to hear him tell it, Sun hopes to take a big chunk out of rival Microsoft’s soft butt. In his keynote address, Schwartz said that the Santa […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Linux will be central to the IT industry’s future and the current legal issues around IBM and the open source community will be resolved and forgotten, IBM’s Irving Wadawsky-Berger told the audience of his well-attended keynote speech at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. And to highlight Big Blue’s commitment to the open […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Tuesday showed its devotion to Linux unveiling new management and clustering solutions based on the open source operating system. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker came on strong at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here, buying a Cornerstone sponsorship and mustering a slew of announcements including product extensions, partnerships […]

SAN FRANCISCO — MySQL AB extended its efforts to make a splash the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 here with the announcement of two more deals on Tuesday. The Swedish open source database vendor launched a Linux-based database appliance and rebranded the SAP DB database it acquired from SAP to “MaxDB”. The news follows the […]

Remove.org is a collage of every Happy American meme in the book. On the header, the Statue of Liberty blends into the Lincoln Memorial and Old Glory, while on the right of the text a smiling mom and dad hug their two kids and a Labrador retriever. The Web site claims that it’s “Protecting Individuals, […]

SBC Communications fired a shot Wednesday in the acrimonious battle between file-swapping consumers and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In a suit filed with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Pacific Bell Internet, which sells SBC dialup and broadband services in California, claimed that the spate of RIAA subpoenas demanding the e-mail […]

Intel executives didn’t know demand was going to tank in 2000, a U.S. District Court ruled Tuesday. And even if they had, the Court decided, the safe harbor boilerplate in their statements protected them. A class action suit led by the Hawaii Reinforcing Iron Workers Pension Fund Trust against Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel was dismissed […]