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On Tuesday, Oct. 23, Sun Microsystems will try to expand the appeal of its iPlanet portal software by giving it collaborative services that move beyond e-mail to instant messaging for the enterprise, with an ability to jointly work on documents. The Instant Collaboration Pack addition to the iPlanet Portal Server will allow workgroups to convene […]

Expect the FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program, says a source familiar with the plan. Stewart Baker, a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson, is a former general counsel to the National Security Agency. He says the FBI has spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture that would concentrate Internet […]

Fallout from terrorist attacks in the United States and a weakening global economy further undermined PC unit sales worldwide, resulting in about a 12 percent to 14 percent drop from a year ago, according to two new reports. Yet, despite the difficult environment, Dell Computer Corp., of Round Rock, Texas once again gained market share, […]

When a company that has been as unabashedly bullish about the PC industry as Microsoft Corp. has starts worrying over the prospects for business and consumer desktops, you know its bad. During its quarterly earnings call with press and analysts on Thursday evening, Microsoft warned that it had seen business PC shipments decline 10 percent […]

When a company that has been unabashedly bullish about the PC industry as Microsoft has been starts worrying over business desktop and consumer prospects, you know its bad. But during its Q1 fiscal 2002 earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft warned that it had seen business PC shipments decline 10 percent during the July-to-September quarter, and […]

PC maker Gateway Inc. reported a third-quarter loss of $520 million for the quarter, in line with the warning the company issued two weeks ago. Excluding one-time charges, Gateway posted a loss of $83 million, or 17 cents per share, in the quarter. Last year, the direct-order PC vendor posted a profit of $131.8 million, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., hard hit by a drop off in sales following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, posted a loss of $180 million for the quarter, as revenue plunged 43 percent from a year ago. Sun chose not to hold a customary call with market analysts following its earnings announcement today, contending it addressed the […]

Gateway, one of the PC companies hardest hit by the slowdown in the sector, on Thursday reported third quarter revenue of $1.4 billion and a net loss of $520 million, a figure that includes special charges. Nevertheless, the company said it still expects to return to profitability in the fourth quarter of 2001 “on a […]

Earlier this week, on Oct. 16th, Microsoft launched BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet, bringing to an end a period in which some XML observers believed Microsofts XML might function only with Microsoft products. BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet is connection software between Microsofts XML server and the RosettaNet standard for using XML documents to communicate […]

Kontiki, the peer-to-peer content distribution startup formed by former AOL and Netscape Communications executives, today announced that it has lined up a dozen customers, including Amazon.com and Sony, which will be using the beta version of its system. The startups initial customers are Amazon, Electronic Arts, eRede, Jamcracker, LivePlanet, Loudcloud, Mondo Media, MP3.com, Palm, Sony […]