Microsoft last week announced a series of initiatives designed to help Internet service providers (ISPs) and application service providers (ASPs) keep up with the demands of growing Internet traffic. During a keynote speech at the ISPCon Fall '99 trade show here, Thomas Koll, director of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group, said the company is working to sell and manage software applications for ISPs and ASPs as it prepares to launch Windows 2000 in February 2000.
Intel executives, looking forward into next year, have outlined a strategy that includes the release of a new "system-on-a-chip", code-named "Timna".
In the Internet universe of Hewlett-Packard's Nick Earle, more and more traditional business models are falling by the wayside, as development of electronic commerce accelerates to the speed of light.
Several software vendors for handheld computers, cell phones, and other mobile devices have teamed up to further develop a recently introduced, standardised protocol for devices to communicate with networks.
Driven by strong PC sales, Microsoft beat Wall Street predictions yesterday by posting quarterly earnings, excluding one-time gains, of $US2.09 billion, or 38 cents per share, up from $1.52 billion, or 28 cents per share from the same period last year.
A shortage of components for TFT LCD (thin film transistor liquid crystal display) monitors in Taiwan should limit supplies until 2001 and stand in the way of any price reductions in computer notebooks, an International Data Corp study says.
Michael Cowpland, the president and chief executive officer of Corel, disputed charges filed on Thursday by the Ontario Securities Commission accusing him of three counts of violating Ontario securities law.
Nortel Networks has launched a unified communications platform to provide small and medium-size businesses with a range of Internet-based voice and data communications.
Internet service firms are going public at a rapid pace as they try to keep up with growing demand for more sophisticated Web projects, according to a recent report from International Data Corp in Framingham.
Internet service firms are going public at a rapid rate as they try to keep up with growing demand for more sophisticated Web projects, according to a recent report from International Data Corp.
In just a few years, observers will look back at today's e-commerce as nothing but the "primordial ooze" necessary to develop the full-blown economy that is bound to emerge over the Internet, an analyst at an International Data Corp conference on the Internet economy said last week in the keynote presentation.
Informix is launching new e-commerce products specifically-tailored to "brick and mortar" retailers who want to start online operations.
Nortel Networks has launched a unified communications platform to provide small and medium businesses with a range of Internet-based voice and data communications.
Another security problem has cropped up to plague Microsoft's browser software.
In just a few years, observers will look back at today's e-commerce as nothing but the "primordial ooze" necessary to develop the full-blown economy that is bound to emerge over the Internet, an analyst at an International Data Corp conference on the Internet economy said yesterday in the keynote presentation.
The winners were honoured during the Vocus Virtual Partner Conference
