Dennis Callaghan

Holiday online shoppers were off to a better start this year than last. The first week of the holiday shopping season, which included the entire week of Thanksgiving ending on Sunday, saw a 27 percent increase in e-commerce sales from the same period a year ago, according to e-commerce rating service BizRate.com. Total online sales […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will announce an expansion of its Project Jxta peer-to-peer protocol to include handheld devices such as PDAs and wireless phones. The update will add support for J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition), which will enable users of handheld devices to access files or applications and share data with other handhelds, PCs […]

Calendra Inc., a French company specializing in directory content access and management software, has established a beachhead in North America, the company announced Tuesday. Calendra, which develops the CDM (Calendra Directory Manager) software, has set up sales offices in Herndon, Va., and San Francisco. It plans to target Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, official […]

Lotus Software is considering participating in parent company IBMs Eclipse open-source initiative and releasing the source code for its Domino Designer development tool. Such a step would mean the most widely used development tool for building applications that run on the Domino application server would gain additional Java support. “Were looking into it. Were still […]

While the U.S. Military conducts the war on terrorism with bombs and bullets, branches of the armed forces are facing a challenge from within—how to deliver relevant information to their millions of members around the world more efficiently. Their weapon of choice is portal software. Late last month, the U.S. Army relaunched its AKO (Army […]

Oracle Corp. is trying to use its Oracle9i database to muscle into Microsoft Corp.s e-mail business. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., last week announced here at Comdex its E-mail Migration Service, a program that enables businesses to move their Microsoft Outlook e-mail data repository from Microsofts Exchange server onto Oracles 9i database. Such a move […]

A licensing deal giving Samsung SDS Co. Ltd. control of Hewlett-Packard Co.s OpenMail e-mail system gives the Korean technology company a solid base for its planned unified communications initiative and HP a way of dumping a fading business. But the big winners in the deal could be the more than 5 million OpenMail users, who […]

Application development software startup MagnetPoint Inc. will release a Java-based application development framework for building Web services next week. The new framework, called MagnetStudio, will be positioned as a possible alternative to Microsoft Corp.s .Net Alerts, as its used to build Web services for messaging applications, including e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, presence and availability […]

Struggling business intelligence software developer Sagent Technology Inc. may need to restate nearly $5 million of revenues reported this year, pending the results of an internal investigation of the validity of some sales orders, the company reported Thursday. The orders in question were booked to government customers by a single salesperson in the Mountain View, […]

IBMs Lotus Software division is considering participating in the parent companys Eclipse open source initiative, Lotus officials said Wednesday. One Lotus development tool that may be included in the initiative is Domino Designer, the most widely-used development tool for building applications that run on Lotuss Domino application server, according to Martha Hoyt, senior manager for […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Samsung SDS Co. Ltd. later today will announce a licensing agreement that will allow Samsung SDS to build messaging solutions on top of HPs OpenMail e-mail platform. The agreement, which will be discussed at a press conference at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, will allow Samsung SDS to eventually turn […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week introduced new and upgraded Internet management software that officials said gives enterprises and service providers more accurate and up-to-date information on how customers use its services. The new OpenView IUM (Internet Usage Manager) Prepaid Data Solution enables operators to add prepaid data services to post-paid billing systems and infrastructure without disrupting […]