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Online retailer Amazon.com late last month announced it had its busiest season to date, setting a single-day record with more than 2.1 million units ordered. Among the highlights, Amazon officials announced that on its peak day this season, Amazon shipped more than 1 million packages worldwide and that more than 70,000 gift certificates were ordered […]

SPX announced last month that Microsoft has agreed to pay $60 million to the company to settle a patent infringement lawsuit. A jury in November awarded SPXs software unit, Imagexpo, $62.3 million in compensatory damages because Microsoft had infringed on a patent for conferencing software. SPX said at the time that the jurys decision was […]

Users looking for a “fast” notebook can check out Acer America, which is rolling out this month a colorful thin-and-light notebook that marks the computer makers partnership with the Scuderia Ferrari racing team. The Ferrari 3000 offers technology such as a mobile Athlon XP-M 2500+ chip, from Advanced Micro Devices, and an ATI Technologies Mobility […]

Apple Computer and IDG World Expo last month announced that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will return to the Macworld Conference & Expo keynote stage this week in San Francisco after skipping Julys event in New York. Jobs instead appeared at Apples Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco in June, where he unveiled the “Panther” 10.3 […]

Several members of eWEEKs corporate Partner Advisory Board recently met with eWEEK Labs Jason Brooks, Peter Coffee and Debra Donston to discuss their organizations client-side hardware experience and plans. Roundtable Participants Frank CalabreseManager of Global Desktop Strategy and Support, Bose Corp., Framingham, Mass. Gary GunnersonIT Architect, Gannett Co. Inc., McLean, Va. David MilkovichAdvisory Software Engineer, […]

FreeBSD.org last month posted Release Candidate 5.2 of its open-source Unix operating system. The group is preparing a final candidate, which is due this month. As a release candidate, Version 5.2-RC2 is not recommended for most FreeBSD users but is available for download for experienced users and developers to test and return bug reports, officials […]

If you want to keep up to the minute on the legal side of the SCO case, there is no better site than Pamela JonesGroklaw. In this LinuxPlanet interview, Jones tells reporter Jacqueline Emigh about why she started Groklaw, what she thinks about the case today, and where she sees Groklaw going tomorrow.

You might want to sign up for Microsofts Webcast launch of its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services technology on January 27. Microsoft was hoping to deliver its next-gen business intelligence technology before the end of 2003. Instead, its doing the rollout honors later this month.

Before kicking off my 2004 predictions column, Id like to offer a quick self-critique. After reviewing my predictions from last year, Id say (to be generous) that your all-seeing Microsoft Watcher achieved a barely 50/50 accuracy rate. This year, while I am admittedly going out on a few precarious limbs, I vow to do better. […]

The customer is always right: Especially when you help make the customer feel right, and rewarded, on the Web and beyond. In this detailed Customer Relationship Management (CRM) guide on the evolving convergence of business strategy and IT, the customers experience on the Web is examined from many angles including: successful loyalty programs that really […]

Oracle on Tuesday disclosed that it had slashed its credit line with banks to $1.5 billion from $5 billion but said that it still had plenty of money to buy PeopleSoft, which its trying to grab for $7.5 billion. Read the full story at the Boston Globe.

Heres a select sampling of what Slashdot users had to say about the recent, independent study of MySQL code on the part of Reasoning Inc. To read the whole string, click here. Not only is it hard to define defect (and it is very obvious that some defects are worse than others), but this code […]