PCMS and IBM have announced that they are collaborating with Bass Pro Shops to completely overhaul the sales experience at all 34 of America's premier outdoor retailers' stores. The project will allow Bass Pro Shops to efficiently manage in-store promotions intended to enhance the cust...

HP has announced a variety of affordable, energy-efficient desk-based products and environmentally friendly features for business customers. The new HP Compaq dx2250 Desktop PC is a reliable, full-featured business computer featuring energy-efficient processors to help lower a customer...

HP has shipped more PCs than any other vendor worldwide for the third calendar quarter of 2006, according to both IDC and Gartner results released today. Results from both analyst firms for the period mark Q306 as at least the third consecutive quarter that HP has grown faster worldwid...

HP has announced its researchers have created a radio frequency identification (RFID) asset tracking technology for data centers and successfully tested it at a major retailer. The technology was developed by HP Labs, the company's central research facility, and tested at Meijer, a ret...

IBM has announced a comprehensive software and solutions strategy expected to provide customers with the industry's most advanced and complete identity recognition solutions for uncovering and managing potential threats and fraudulent activity by individuals and groups attempting to ma...

IBM has announced new industry models and consulting services that deliver industry-specific best practices to help health insurance providers and financial institutions leverage their institutional know-how and information assets to gain a competitive advantage.

Apple has announced the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition. (RED) was created by U2 lead singer Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage business in the fight against AIDS in Africa by getting the world's most iconic companies to make uniquely branded products. A portion of the profits fr...

Backbase released version 1.2 of its Backbase AJAX Java Edition. Version 1.2 contains extended functionality of the Eclipse WTP plug-in, new UI components, improved client-side validation and extended application server support.

The WebKit application framework for the Mac now includes a JavaScript debugger, named Drosera. Drosera, named after the largest genera of bug eating plants, lets you attach and debug JavaScript for any WebKit application-not just the Safari browser, which is based on WebKit, as per th...

UK-based IT security firm Sophos reports that a fake news report telling of a Michael Jackson suicide attempt is designed to fool users into clicking a pernicious attachment.

Yakov Fain reaches Lesson 11 in his popular 'Java basics' series. This time he deals with how and why Java programmers working on large projects that have lots of classes usually organize them in different packages; and explores the new element introduced in Java 5.0 called static impo...

'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

At the Open Source Business Conference taking place today in San Francisco, Sun's President and COO, Jonathan Schwartz emphasized that 'free' equates not to 'no revenue' but instead to 'more opportunity to create revenue.'

Now that Yahoo! Mail has matched the Gmail offer of 1GB storage to its free e-mail customers, Google is doing the obvious thing and pulling ahead again, reopening 'the one-gig gap' between its Gmail service and all-comers.

HP board selects Mark Hurd to run the company, stating that they were impressed with the work he did while CEO of NCR.

'Buffer overflow conditions can potentially allow arbitrary code to be executed remotely with local SYSTEM privileges. This affects versions of the CA License software v1.53 through v1.61.8 on the specified platforms.' (CA statement) Happily CA License patches that address these issues...

The net is abuzz with expectation as the world's first 'wireless iPod' seems to be a step closer after a radio interview given in France by Motorola's manager for automobile products.

Carly Fiorina has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard. CEO since 1999, Fiorina is being replaced by Robert Wayman, HP's current CFO, while Patricia Dunn, was named non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately.

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best so...

What does Apple have in common with Google, Ikea, Starbucks, and Al Jazeera? Answer: it has been rated one of the 'most influential brands of 2004' in a survey of about 2,000 advertising executives, brand managers and academics, conducted by the online magazine, Brandchannel. In fact, ...

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg...

Distancing itself ever further from arch-rival Microsoft, whose CEO Bill Gates tried during his keynote at CES 2005 to liken open source software development to a kind of modern-day communism, IBM will today be giving away rights - so it is announcing - to 500 of its software patents.

Oracle, which has been counting PeopleSoft revenues as its own since December 29, took control of PeopleSoft two days before the end of 2004 and immediately started cleaning house, beginning with PeopleSoft's top managers. Oracle expects the deal to close by January 18 and is promising...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is 'We believe that the world's toughest problems can be solved - if we work together' - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that's wreaked such havoc in South Asia. Amazon.com has helped channel even more, $3...

No sooner had we begun our reader-driven quest for the top twenty software people in the world than - by popular acclaim, as they say - we're going to extend the field to choose from...from forty to over a hundred. Here we bring you a sneak peek at the sixty contenders that we'll be ad...

SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge), to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005. More than 3,000 i...

Security giant Symantec, The New York Times is reporting this morning, is 'close to acquiring' Veritas for more than $13 billion, trumping yesterday's $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle, and dwarfing Honeywell's $1.5 billion bid this week for Novar. Only the possible $35...

In an all-cash deal worth approximately $10.3 billion, Oracle is going to acquire 100% of PeopleSoft's shares, at a newly increased price of $26.50, a $2.50 increase on its 'best and final' offer which expired in November. PeopleSoft's board has approved the deal. 'We believe this revi...

After IBM yesterday announced the sale of its PC business for $1.25 billion to the Chinese group Lenovo, the industry has begun wondering whether HP's PC business - worth at least $2.5 billion to the right buyer - might be the next to be sold.

Once publicly free of the PC division, will IBM either buy, or form a close joint venture, with Apple - to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip? That's the question being asked by tech-savvy commentators who wonder what will happen next if Big Blu...

Cassatt Corporation, the glitterati startup headed by BEA co-founder and ex-CEO Bill Coleman, is a bit sheepish about phrasing it quite like this, but the company thinks it's about to unleash the 'next wave of computing.' Its problem is giving this next wave of computing a name. For la...

'The OS wars are down to three - Microsoft Windows, Sun's Solaris, and Red Hat's Linux,' according to Sun's president and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, the industry's First Blogger Extraordinary.

Despite receiving 61% of PeopleSoft shares in its tender last month, Oracle hasn't yet overcome PeopleSoft's 'poison pill' provisions aimed at making a takeover too costly even for Larry Ellison. Just in case Oracle fails in its attempt to have a court remove the pill so it can move fo...

Version 1.0 of Firefox, the free browser, is officially released today, after more than 7 million people downloaded it during its 'preview release' period. The Mozilla Foundation, which inherited much of the underlying software code from Netscape, hopes Firefox will take a 10% chunk of...

After publicly retracting the results of J2EE versus .NET benchmark tests it conducted back in 2002, The Middleware Company (TMC) bravely ventured recently to revisit this minefield. From IBM's point of view, according to an internal document obtained today by WebSphere Journal, TMC ha...

'There are those that persist in trying to draw the industry as filled with binary extremes,' writes Jonathan Schwartz, currently the industry's highest-profile blogger. But it isn't an either/or choice these days, Schwartz argues, in his latest effusion. It isn't open-source or propri...