Susan Kuchinskas

IBM said it would spend a quarter of a billion dollars over the next year and a half to grow its RFID business. Big Blue launched Sensor and Actuator Solutions on Monday, a new division under the umbrella of its Pervasive Computing division. The company said this line of business grew 36 percent last year, […]

Are you a charmer with strong programming skills? Can you find happiness toiling in the IT department of a manufacturer or transportation company? Then American businesses would like to meet you. Non-IT companies added the overwhelming majority of IT workers from 2003 to 2004 — and they were more interested in candidates with good interpersonal […]

Microsoft is ready to ship Host Integration Server 2004, offering a Windows interface to mainframes and legacy applications. HIS 2004, the latest in the company’s line of server tools, is a set of technologies and tools that let companies working on the Windows Server 2003 platform connect Windows with IBM zSeries mainframes and iSeries servers. […]

While the semiconductor industry overall can expect a modest 6 percent compound annual growth rate in the next four years, demand for networking and consumer products will give 64-bit chips a huge boost, In-Stat/MDR says. The technology research firm’s latest report forecast that the cell-based 64-bit embedded processor market will thrive, jumping 83 percent from […]

UPDATED: Early this afternoon, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies, the company’s long-awaited security upgrade to Windows XP. It’s been a long, hard slog for Microsoft, and now it’s time for customers to feel the pain. Analysts say that customers must expect some drama when they install […]

MILLBRAE, Calif. — Spam is a global problem: Even though most of it originates in the United States, the bulk of it is sent from overseas on behalf of American spammers. Is law or technology the best way to solve the problem? That’s the question considered by privacy experts at a conference called ”International Spam […]

A new report from research firm Directions on Microsoft says that Windows Server 2003 is a win-win-win product. Customers can optimize use of hardware, IT staff and physical space by consolidating servers. Microsoft partners can make money by helping businesses with planning and migration. And Microsoft can use the consolidation advantage as a carrot to […]

Many large businesses are already awash in a flood of RFID data, much of it too poorly integrated and barely managed. IBM says its WebSphere Product Center is a link to help filter the flood of RFID data heading into enterprise systems. On Monday, it launched a new version of the product management middleware it […]

Microsoft reached settlements with the States of Vermont and Minnesota, ending a long line of consumer class action suits alleging it used its market dominance to jack up prices. The basis of these and other consumer class action suits against Microsoft is that, because a court found the company engaged in anticompetitive practices, other vendors […]

It seems like every major software maker has gotten open source religion, with Sun Microsystems now considering opening its Solaris code and Microsoft posting some source code into a Linux lair. Experts tick off compelling reasons why a vendor of closed-source software might release code: to make the product more ubiquitous, speed development, get fresh […]