Erin Joyce

NEW YORK — As information technology migrates to a new era of on-demand computing, the head of Computer Associates is urging the industry to take a page out of the consumer technology sector’s playbook. “Consumers have very little tolerance for products that fail to deliver functionality, simplicity of use and low cost,” Ken Cron, interim […]

Call it one step forward in a years-long slog to renegotiate interconnect fees among long distance and local phone service providers — with the burgeoning growth of voice over IP (VOIP) keeping all parties on their toes. Nine telecommunications providers have submitted a plan to the Federal Communications Commission that proposes new fees for wireline […]

REDMOND, Wash. — Analysts and reporters are descending on Microsoft Corp.’s campus for an all-day meeting to hear the world’s largest software company talk about it plans for growth. The gathering follows two weeks of blockbuster financial news from Redmond, such as the record-setting one-time dividend payout of $32 billion. (In all, the dividend payout […]

You can stop staring at the ceiling each night, wondering. A new study has confirmed what many a cubicle dweller has long suspected: Many companies, maybe even yours, are monitoring outgoing e-mails. According to a new survey conducted by Forrester Consulting and sponsored by Proofpoint Inc., a company that makes anti-spam and filtering software, more […]

Now that an appeal to increase Microsoft’s penalties for abusing its monopoly and violating antitrust law has been effectively denied, will the past be a prologue to Microsoft’s future business tactics? Analysts, experts and lawyers involved with the appeal agree that Microsoft is now free to repeat the same exclusionary tactics that got the company […]

Worried that your IT job is going offshore? Trends suggest you might be. Gartner predicts that by 2010, 25 percent of traditional U.S. IT jobs will be done in emerging countries, up from roughly 5 percent today. If your job is at risk, you need to determine what to do about it. Veteran programmers have […]

The European Commission has fined Microsoft a record US $613 million (497.2 million euro) after it found the company abused its “virtual monopoly” with its Windows operating system and broke European antitrust law governing competition. EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said the EU found that Microsoft “has abused its virtual monopoly power over the PC […]

ATLANTA — The next big opportunity for the mobile computing industry involves the work of bridging gaps between a growing universe of networked devices, the CEO of chip and cellular giant Motorola said Tuesday. Without those connections, the concept of seamless mobility won’t be fully realized, Ed Zander told a keynote audience at the CTIA […]

ATLANTA — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told the wireless industry to be a part of the future with improved data transmission services or risk “being run over by someone who is leading it.” During a keynote discussion at the launch of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association’s trade show, CTIA Wireless 2004, […]

Get ready for a more mature demonstration of Linux in the enterprise — and on the desktop — as the LinuxWorld Expo springs to life in New York City this week. Although Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is not expected to attend the conference and expo in New York’s Javits Convention Center, the gathering […]