eWEEK EDITORS

Microsoft Corp.s anti-open-source “Get the Facts” campaign is entering its second year. And Microsoft has no intent to change course. Martin Taylor—Microsofts appointed Linux point man and platform strategist—is making the rounds and touting yet another Microsoft-commissioned study that Microsoft is using as “proof” that Windows surpasses Linux in total cost of ownership, security and […]

Although the IBM Software Group generates billions of dollars of revenue for IBM each year, it is a nimble multibillion-dollar division. Responding to an evolution in the buying patterns of its customers, the Somers, N.Y., group late last year pushed into high gear an initiative to embrace vertical-industry customers through comprehensive middleware solutions. Steve Mills, […]

Rogers Communications Inc., one of Canadas largest cell phone operators, has agreed to buy the 34 percent in its business owned by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for about $1.37 billion US. The deal involves 48.6 million shares. Earlier this summer Rogers agreed to help AT&T Wireless unload its stake in Rogers Wireless by Sept. 30. […]

OQO Inc. will launch its OQO Model 01 palmtop computer in mid-October, a company representative said in an e-mail. The OQO, first disclosed in 2002 and formally unveiled in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is one of a small number of palmtop computers designed to replace a PDA or handheld with […]

With the announcement of the expansion of the New York Stock Exchanges Direct Plus service, which provides for greater automation of stock transactions on the venerable auction-based exchange, large financial institutions are taking over technology firms. Recently, Lava Trading was acquired by Citigroup and Sonic Financial Technologies was purchased by The Bank of New York. […]

The Department of Defense has contracted information technology systems provider Unisys Corp. to implement an electronic medical records system for some nine million military beneficiaries. Unisys will train 60,000 DoD personnel to use the Composite Health Care System and receive $31 million a year plus bonuses as part of a series of three one-year options. […]

The number of e-check transactions for online consumer purchases tripled last year, soaring to 6.9 million transactions from 2002s 2.3 million transactions, according to an industry organization. And those 2002 figures are roughly triple the 750,000 transactions in 2001. A 300 percent annual growth is not something one shakes an ATM card at. The popularity […]

Journalists are typically supposed to remain neutral, but there comes a time when we have to show that our words match our passion. Mark Roberti, the Editor of RFID Journal, has set aside tradition with a public wager of $10,000—thats a lot for us underpaid and cheap professional wordsmiths—that RFID is going to be where […]

Although it looks like IT spending is likely to sharply increase on almost all levels, the growth for CRM is expected to be much less robust, according to a recent Forrester Research report. In a world where IT spending next year is expected to increase some 6.4 percent, CRM is projected to grow only two […]

With automation dominating more and more retail shops, the personal touch has often been lost. In some cases, it gets to the point where the consumer wonders what they are truly paying for. Read the entire Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story here.

The legal privacy monster of CRM systems has raised its frightening head again, this time with Albertsons accused of selling customer names to major drug companies. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego-based consumer advocacy group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of customers who received the pitches. What privacy expectations do consumers have? What expectations […]

Although the Department of Justice vs. Oracle case over Oracles attempted takeover of PeopleSoft was not about Microsoft, the Redmond software vendor cast quite the shadow in the matter, from the time of Oracles initial PeopleSoft bid through to this weeks ruling in the matter. To wit: The word “Microsoft” figures 77 times in the […]