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Intel spokesperson Chuck Molloy told the E-Commerce Times that the company has never tried to stop Hamidi from expressing his views on his dismissal "This has never been about his opinions, but rather about what we think is our property boundaries," Molloy said, adding that no...

Here's a day in the upside-down life of a CIO: She reads a bunch of news articles about deflation on the train and gets depressed about the economy, then takes a phone call from a pollster and tells him she's not planning any new technology buys. Later, near the end of the day, she tells her staff to enter an order for a bunch of Gigabit Ethernet cards. Such is the quixotic landscape in which tech is struggling to make a comeback. Economic data show modest signs of recovery, but the outlook of many tech buyers remains sour.

However, SCO's decision has not killed UnitedLinux as a project by any means, DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. In fact, she said, UnitedLinux is founded on a sound premise: Businesses do not want to wade through 30-plus variants of Linux. She added that interoperability and the ability to support third-party applications without a hitch are vital...

"The bottom line is that no one knows how all this is going to come out," Gartner analyst Betsy Burton told the E-Commerce Times. "The regulators, the lawsuits and whether shareholders will tender it all adds up to a lot of turmoil." ...

From behemoth to diminutive, this year's comeback companies have put at least some rough road into the rearview mirror. In this special report at the year's midpoint, the E-Commerce Times focuses on these newly spiffed-up competitors -- and explores what separates them from the rest of the pack...

Although those cases are not directly related to IPOs, they may indicate an overall culture within Wall Street banks that could allow behind-the-scenes IPO dealings to occur, Dartmouth College professor Kent Womack told the E-Commerce Times. "The incentive system in most bank...

"There's about 3 million lines of code in Groove, but it's the last 250,000 lines, the part that you use to develop applications internally, that matters to customers," Andrew Mahon, director of strategic marketing at Groove Networks, told the E-Commerce Times. Groove Workspa...

"They're targeting the things people like and dislike about broadband access and trying to answer them both," Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "To offer improved speed for no more cost is probably going to resonate with a lot of dial-up users who don't yet see the compelling reason to switch."

No, Orbitz isn't dead, dying or even feeling a bit unwell. But the Orbitz tempest, which seemed to be shaping into an antitrust battle of Microsoft-like proportions at one time, is no longer the storm it once was. ...

"Most people are scared to death of security gurus," Aberdeen Group analyst Jim Hurley told the E-Commerce Times. "Organizations are very scared of what these people can do." The result of such fear is that a company could put its data at risk by leaving jobs vacant in the sec...

IDC analyst Kitty Fok told the E-Commerce Times that it appears the impact will be "significant but not dramatic" and may even be good news for some tech equipment makers in the long run. "Consumer demand has been depressed by SARS in the short term, but we are expecting a sh...

Collis told the E-Commerce Times that three or four years ago, many companies were funding any project -- even if itwas destructive to shareholder value. Today, in contrast, it is generally difficult to fund initiatives at all, as belt-tightening has forced companies to invest only in projects that have real potential to create value.

On Monday, Apple Computer chief potentate and executive kibitzer Steve Jobs presented Apple's latest high-end computer system lineup, driven by the IBM PowerPC 970 processor and branded by Apple as the G5. The systems surprised observers with speeds higher than what IBM promised when it debuted the PowerPC 970 a year ago. In fact, the hardware adds up to what Apple claims is the fastest desktop computer, leading Jobs to punctuate his trademark marketing pitch at the developer conference with the continual refrain, "Pretty cool, huh?"...

Keith Waryas, research manager for wireless business network strategies at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times that Dell is embracing AT&T's GSM/GPRS-based standard because of its increasingly global customer base He noted that the GSM/GPRS-based standard, unlike the CDMA (code div...

Keith Waryas, research manager for wireless business network strategies at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times that Dell is embracing AT&T's GSM/GPRS-based standard because of its increasingly global customer base He noted that the GSM/GPRS-based standard, unlike the CDMA (code div...

Keith Waryas, research manager for wireless business network strategies at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times that Dell is embracing AT&T's GSM/GPRS-based standard because of its increasingly global customer base He noted that the GSM/GPRS-based standard, unlike the CDMA (code div...

Fancy the situation of the computer OEM, stuck selling the same software from Microsoft for the next two years -- software that's already been around for more than a year and a half. We may be seeing a four-year cycle between Microsoft upgrades, certainly the longest I can remember. With PC sales in dollars predicted to be down by perhaps 1 percent this year, it's enough to make a computer OEM wonder: Why don't they just slap that "Bob" software on the thing and call it Win95: Reloaded? ...

"We have a lot of small companies that are growing, and others have them in their portfolios as well," Krupka told the E-Commerce Times. "The question is, how big can these businesses realistically get, and how long will it take? We now know you can only go so fast. Spending more money doesn't make you grow faster."

Gartner desktop computing analyst Charles Smulders told the E-Commerce Times that the processor overhaul was overdue and is certain to please existing Mac users, particularly graphics and desktop publishing professionals However, he said he doubts that the new processor will c...

"The printer segment was traditionally one that HP didn't have to worrytoo much about," Forrester analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times."They've always had competition, but the threat from a company that canalso supply customers with all their other computing needs is a new wrinkle."