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Late last year, Gartner analysts Donald Stuart and Joe Tuset noted that competition in Central and Eastern Europe is "particularly fierce in the provision of data and IP services, as operators bring additional capacities on-stream and focus on Internet-based services." EU requ...

Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox said the now-lengthy period between rollouts "isn't necessarily best for many businesses," which are already lax about installing service packs and almost never opt to apply patches as they are made available. "There are lots of Microsoft p...

So, where's the upside in such a merger? What would Joe Q. Surfer get post-Goo-Hoo that he doesn't get now? Not a whole lot. There's also the May-December issue to consider. Yahoo had already been live on the Web for four years before Google launched. (Although, by then, even...

"The critics said this couldn't be done - a certification for an open-source configuration," SuSE spokesperson Joe Eckert told TechNewsWorld. "We knew it could." Calling it a "landmark decision" to submit to the testing, which cost an estimated US$500,000, IBM senior vice pres...

SuSE spokesperson Joe Eckert told TechNewsWorld that by giving SuSE the JVM source code, the deal will enable the Linux software seller to do much more with Java "It really means a lot to both us and our partners," Eckert said, adding that SuSE customers had called for an agre...

SBC spokesperson Joe Izbrand told TechNewsWorld that the company has received about 200 subpoenas from the RIAA in the past two weeks ...

So, are pure-play Linux companies making money? It can be difficult to tell, since most Linux vendors are not public companies. SuSE's JoeEckert told the E-Commerce Times that SuSE does not share earnings information publicly. Red Hat recently stated its earnings for fiscal 2...

"This, along with their movement into plasma TV, has a chance to juicerevenues in the near term," Joe Beaulieu, senior stock analyst forMorningstar, told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm not sure it represents a viable long-termstrategy. They seem to be grasping at straws." Reducing...

Despite the ugly economic conditions facing IT, there are a few brightspots, and the computer gaming sector is one of them. Computer games continue to sell at a brisk pace, and the hot trend right now is online gaming. Ultima Online, EverQuest and Neverwinter Nights have developed huge fan bases, and more offerings are on the way. ...

IBM spokesperson Joe Stunkard told the E-Commerce Times that the parts deal's termination reflects a shift in IBM's business that occurred during 2002. The biggest change came when IBM sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi for just over $2 billion. "The agreement refle...

With more and more people adopting broadband, and larger national ISPs swallowing up smaller regional ones, one might think independent ISPs are on the ropes ...

MorningStar.com analyst Joel Beaulieu told the E-Commerce Times that he credits part of HP's quarterly gains to its cost-cutting measures, including job cuts that were on -- and in some cases ahead of -- schedule ...

But the main selling point for OpenOffice.org is its file and platform compatibility, according to Joerg Heilig, director of engineering for StarOffice at Sun. "XML is the default file format, and we are working on the standardization. It's documented on OpenOffice.org, and we invite others to work with us," Heilig told the E-Commerce Times...

Dell will not self-brand a product segment until demand and the standardsdeveloped in the segment converge. "As Michael [Dell] likes to say, there's alot of technology innovation out there that really doesn't solve any customer problems," Dell director of global brand strategy Joe Malvezzi told the E-Commerce Times. "Certain categories don't grow and aren't profitable. So we're not going to move into anything unless it's profitable."

However, Morningstar.com stock analyst Joe Beaulieu told the E-Commerce Times, "The first-quarter results were a blip. They're the one who were pushing their customers to upgrade to these long-term licenses. And that's what caused the big jump for the quarter." Microsoft's top...

Gartner semiconductor analyst Joe Byrne also told the E-Commerce Times that he believes it would make sense for Apple to adopt a 64-bit chip, especially one that offers backward compatibility Apple was unable or unwilling to comment....

In fact, Challenger's report coincided with mixed news from various other sources. For example, data storage giant EMC announced Thursday that it will cut another 1,350 workers worldwide. EMC CEO Joe Tucci said the company faces a "brutal" tech spending environment and admitted, "We don't know when IT spending growth will resume."

At IBM (NYSE: IBM), for example, an initiative dubbed Project eLiza aims to transform the way servers interact with one another via software that makes them self-managing. According to IBM technology strategist Joe Winkelbauer, a single transaction on a Web site can involve as many as 20 different servers; therefore, servers must be enabled to communicate better...

Why? It's elementary. The DVD player is still selling like mad. And before Joe Consumer dumps it in the landfill in favor of on-demand movies, he's going to get his money's worth. So here we sit, on pause, as it were, waiting for the next stage in movie-watching's development ...

"We are delivering on our commitment to produce profitability and positive cash flow, regardless of market conditions," said Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia. "We would expect this to continue, even if the markets remain challenging." ...