HomeLatest News

Latest News

MasterCard Pursues No-Touch Retail

MasterCard International Inc. Vice President Oliver Steeley is working to make contactless payment available to millions of Americans. Contactless payment is where a customer...

U.S. Military Moves Toward Networked War Model

SAN JOSE, Calif.—All branches of the U.S. military are well into the process of designing their future combat systems to connect every soldier and...

IM Federation Is Still a Mess

During the past few weeks, I have been working with a few enterprise instant messaging platforms to test their interoperability in the context of...

IBM Drops Patent Counterclaims in SCO Case

In a surprise move, IBM has dropped its patent counterclaims against SCO in a memorandum to the U.S. District Court in Utah filed on...

To Bundle or Not to Bundle: Thats the Microsoft Security Question

Microsoft Corp. has not yet launched a paid anti-virus product, but questions about software bundling and unfair competition are already swirling in Europe. Rival Symantec...

Cogent-Level 3 Peering Spat Ends—for Now

Network operator Cogent said Friday that rival Level 3 "has taken the necessary actions" to once again carry its customers Internet traffic, a sign...

Conway Adds No Luster to Salesforce.com Board

The appointment of former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway as a Salesforce.com board of directors member is surprising, and a bit dismaying, considering that he...

VeriSign Tackles the Scandal of Splog

Its not about where influential Weblogs—Robert Scoble, Dave Winer or Doc Searls—will live. Theyll live on the servers theyve called home, and Weblogs.com will...

Improved Thunderbird Still Fails Enterprise Test

As you may know, I have a love/hate relationship with Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations open-source stand-alone e-mail client. On the one hand, while Thunderbird is...

Salesforce.com Appoints Conway to Its Board

Salesforce.com, the current darling of the On Demand world, announced Friday the appointment of former PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway to its board of...