Erin Joyce

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 […]

NEW YORK — A day after getting slapped with a new lawsuit over Linux, Novell’s top man said 2004 will be a year of further growth of open source in major enterprise applications and the desktop — albeit with a few assumptions. CEO Jack Messman Wednesday said, first his company must defend itself against a […]

Investment banks are in love with technology again, fueled in part by the continued rally in the tech-heavy Nasdaq index, which is up by over 50 percent in the past 24 months, thanks in part to a solid outlook in the semi-conductor sector. SG Cowen is the latest technology investment research concern to adjust its […]

Open source advocates say IT research bears out their claims that the many flavors of Linux are making steady strides in enterprise deployments. But ask open source fans to comment on IBM’s refusal to indemnify its Linux customers in the face of litigation over copyright disputes in some Linux code, and the arguments tend to […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft’s pre-beta version of its Visual Studio .NET platform, “Whidbey”, is offering a trove of new simplified tools and features that should make developers jobs easier, while giving Microsoft critics new fodder, attendees at the Professional Developers Conference here said. “What we are hearing from developers on Visual Studio .NET is that […]