Dennis Callaghan

Microsoft Corp. is scrambling to allay fears about the privacy and security issues around its Passport and HailStorm initiatives amid increasing complaints from industry and user groups. Last week, a cadre of 13 privacy organizations and industry groups filed an amended complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the changes Microsoft has made to […]

A move by Lotus Development Corp. to strengthen the ties between its Domino development platform and corporate parent IBMs WebSphere application server and DB2 Universal Database may lead to more scalable collaborative e-commerce applications, some IT managers said. The forthcoming release of Domino, code-named Rnext, will add support for JSP (JavaServer Pages), one of the […]

Tracking and analyzing web traffic may not be as exciting as it used to be, but dont tell that to NetIQ Corp. This week, the company will announce its first release of the WebTrends product family since it acquired the products creator, WebTrends Corp., earlier this year. While the WebTrends products have been rebranded with […]

FrontRange Solutions Inc. added to its suite of applications for small businesses with the release of GoldMine eCommerce last week. The application, which allows small businesses—mostly those with fewer than 100 employees—to operate full-functioned e-commerce sites, follows up on FrontRanges applications for sales and marketing automation and customer service. The main eStore module of GoldMine […]

Oracle Corp. boasted famously in television advertisements earlier this year that implementing its own e-business software saved it $1 billion. But Mickey McBride has a message for anyone looking to reap such savings from Oracles 11i suite of business applications: Wait. “The upgrade was a difficult process,” said McBride, manager of financial applications at IMCO […]

It appears PeopleSoft Inc.s move to Web-enable its business applications is finally paying dividends for itself and its customers. The Pleasanton, Calif., enterprise resource planning software vendor last week defied the downward-spiraling economy with a strong second-quarter earnings report, posting revenues of $533 million, up 27 percent from the same period a year ago, as […]

Lotus Development Corp., joining a growing legion of software companies trying to expand their market share to small-business customers, released the long-awaited iNotes Web Access product this month. The product, which had been announced in October and expected to ship early this year, is a Web browser client providing access to the messaging and collaborative […]

When Sagent Technology Inc. releases Version 4.5i of its namesake Solution suite this week, the product will offer more than just faster data loading and better management for data warehouses. What has many beta testers buzzing about the upgrade is the Mountain View, Calif., companys new iStudio module, its first foray into Web-based reporting. The […]

In the wake of the union of the top two makers of help desk automation software last month, Magic Solutions is shoring up its offerings with new software and a new pricing promotion. Magic, a division of Network Associates Inc., this week will unveil a customer self-service application called Self Service Desk. This comes on […]

Epicentric Inc. is leading an effort to develop a new standard for accessing Web services through a portal interface. The proposed Web Services User Interface, or WSUI, standard from the knowledge management and portal software vendor would allow users to access and interact with Extensible Markup Language- and Simple Object Access Protocol-based Web services as […]

Actinic Software LLC and Mercantec Inc. hope to ride the wave of small businesses evolving from simple Web storefronts and shopping carts to more full-featured e-businesses with new offerings. Actinic this week will release ActiveLink for QuickBooks, an add-on to its Actinic Store suite of storefront software that links a companys Web storefront to back-office […]

With many of Microsoft Corp.s future Web services initiatives riding on instant messaging technology, nearly a week of service disruptions on Microsofts MSN Messenger service was the last thing the company needed. But thats exactly what it got as MSN Messenger experienced service outages and disruptions during much of the first week of this month. […]