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Sterling Commerce to Acquire E-Commerce Firm Comergent

"Comergent and Sterling Commerce share a vision for seamless order management, which encompasses order capture and order fulfillment," Sterling Commerce VP of Global Product Marketing Joel Reed and Comergent CEO Jean Kovacs told the E-Commerce Times in e-mail correspondence Th...

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Green Energy, Part 1: The Second Coming

Situated in California's scenic Ojai Valley within a large agricultural community just minutes from the Pacific Ocean,Veg Powered Systems is a small but growing business. The husband and wife team of Joel and Rebecca Woolf started out several years ago converting diesel engines to run on straight or recycled vegetable oil -- SVO and RVO, respectively -- for local farmers and other residents. They were in pursuit of an ideal: that by burning vegetable oil California's "fuel fields could go from oil fields to canola fields."

Red Hat Releases RHEL 5 Beta 2

Red Hat is focusing RHEL 5 Beta 2 on its own technology forvirtualization -- which involves the running of multiple instances of software on single servers -- its partnership with VMware, and the incorporation of the open source Xen virtualization technology, Red Hat Product Manager Joel Berman told LinuxInsider...

Cell Phones at School: Nuisance or Necessity?

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein implemented such a ban to deal with these and other problems -- for instance, students used cell phones to organize gang activities. Also, phones were often stolen. The city has restricted the use of beepers since the late 1980s, and it prohibits the use of other electronic devices, such as iPods...

Vista Finally Released to Manufacturing

"The quality of Vista looks good. The security looks good. The usability is ok. Microsoft could have done better. There are a lot of features that extend the usability but there is also a lot of additional complexity, too," JupiterResearch Senior Analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld...

The Emerging Threat of Cell Phone Spam

"Spam isn't a problem; however, it's an evolving threat that carriers are constantly working to combat," Joe Farren, a spokesperson for CTIA-The Wireless Association, told TechNewsWorld Volume Still Small...

Microsoft Puts Finishing Touches on Office 2007

The changes, though -- particularly the new interface -- could also represent a catch-22 for Microsoft, senior JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld "Microsoft's position is that the new user interface will increase productivity because it is moretask-oriented ...

Google Scoops Up Wiki Tool Maker JotSpot

"It was pretty apparent that Google shared our vision for how groups of people can create, manage and share information online," JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus wrote on Google's official blog Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Privately held JotSpot has been around since 2004...

Microsoft Rolls Out Media Player 11 for Windows XP

Zune is creating a lot of uncertainty for Windows Media Player partners, including URGE, said Joe Wilcox, senior analyst for JupiterResearch. "Until Microsoft releases Zune in a few weeks, we won't know for certain what the impact on these companies will be," he told TechNewsWorld...

Microsoft Unleashes IE 7 Browser for Windows XP

IE 7 is unquestionably a major upgrade that is safer and more secure than its predecessors, but JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox is concerned that a few too many security prompts and warnings may detract from the usability of the browser "You get a warning for pop-up block.

IBM Registers Stellar Performance in Q3

IBM is benefiting from a largerpush among enterprises to consolidate and betterintegrate their heterogeneous IT environments,JupiterResearch Senior Analyst Joe Wilcox told theE-Commerce Times "IBM's middleware business offers that glue to pullthe different pieces together. It ...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0 Beta, Invites 3.0 Suggestions

"Companies working in the Web 2.0 space are doing more beta, and also facilitating more community feedback and participation. The process is not new, it's been done in the past -- Microsoft even did it in the 1990s for DOS and Windows -- but it's taken on a rejuvenated role over the last couple of years," JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox told LinuxInsider...

Explorer Slides, Firefox Gains in Latest Browser Rankings

"We're seeing the strongest Firefox appeal among 18- to 24-year-olds. There's a couple of reasons for this," JupiterResearch Analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld. "Younger users are probably a bit more tech-savvy. For some, there may even be some philosophical appeal with open source."

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Sunbelt Chief Scientist Wells: The Art of Testing Security Software

When consumers buy a top-rated software product, are they really getting what they pay for? That's what Sunbelt Software's Chief Scientist Joe Wells is addressing in the wake of anti-spyware and antivirus testing methodologies that appeared in Consumer Reports, the magazine published by the non-profit Consumers Union...

Microsoft Unleashes Vista RC2 for Testing

"I would have been shocked not to see a Release Candidate 2," JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld. "I expect Microsoft will release another build or two to its internal testers. It's pretty typical for there to be a few release candidates." Major Improvements...

Fox on Demand to Offer Fall Series Episodes Online

Fox's strategy is to find the people who are bored with television and give them a choice, according to Dr. Joe Pilotta, vice president of research at BIG Research, a media research firm. "We find out that most people who are online anyway usually have the TV set on and most people who have the TV set on are online," he said...

Google Buys Its First Humble Abode

"It's interesting that so many successful high-techcompanies started out like that," Joe Wilson, senioranalyst for JupiterResearch, agreed. "I guess onlytime will tell if this was a truly importantdevelopment or just another milestone in theInternet's evolution," he told TechNewsWorld...

Board-Spying Scandal Claims HP’s Top Lawyer

Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who chairs the committee, said in an opening statement that pretexting "in plain language, is pretending to be somebody that you're not, to get something you probably shouldn't have, to use in a way that's probably wrong." Barton also noted ...

Where Data Goes, Security Must Follow

It used to be that armed guards, locked file cabinets and vaults were the tools for securing currency, as businesses operated in a physical world. Today, information is the currency of the global economy, as consumers pay through electronic card swipes, employees are paid through direct deposit, and businesses sell a good deal of their wares online. More than ever before, companies are now challenged to find ways to protect "currency" as it is exchanged with people inside and outside secure corporate networks...

Nokia, Alcatel Team on Telephony Services for Mobiles

"With VoIP services starting to become a serious contender for voice traffic and the bandwidth limitations twisted pair creates, a whole series of competitive dynamics emerges," Joe Nordgaard, director of the wireless consulting firm Spectral Advantage, told TechNewsWorld A Se...

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