Forrester sees online sales through 2010 rising
Consumers' love of online research and purchasing convenience is fueling online retail sales growth, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research.
Consumers' love of online research and purchasing convenience is fueling online retail sales growth, according to a report released Wednesday by Forrester Research.
Novell is set to release Identity Manager 3, which it said will speed up the process of managing employee passwords and user access rights inside the corporate network by moving that function away from the IT department. "IT people are not the people who know who should have access to things," said Ferris Argyle, product manager for the Identity Manager software.
Novell reported unexpectedly strong operating profit and revenue for its fourth quarter, though restructuring expenses pulled the company into the red.
IBM last week released the initial open beta of a planned update to its flagship DB2 database that will offer users the ability to natively store unstructured XML data separately from conventional relational data.
IBM last week released the initial open beta of a planned update to its flagship DB2 database that will offer users the ability to natively store unstructured XML data separately from conventional relational data.
Microsoft continues to edge toward the high-performance computing space, releasing Tuesday the second beta of its Windows Server 2003 operating system for clustered systems.
Microsoft has officially released its flagship database SQL Server 2005, a product the company said is now truly ready for big businesses.
Informatica claims that features in its upcoming PowerCenter 8 data integration software trump those offered by rival IBM.
Many self-avowed Microsoft haters have stopped short of switching to Linux when they realized the pain involved with abandoning all of their favorite Windows software.
Computer Associates International Wednesday filed restated financial results with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for all but one of its fiscal years between 2000 and 2005, reporting changes that boosted revenues during the period but also raised pretax compensation expenses.
Computer Associates International announced plans to buy iLumin Software Services, a move designed to give CA a stake in the fast-growing market for software that manages and archives e-mails and instant messages.
Using a self-propagating worm that exploits a scripting vulnerability common to most dynamic Web sites, a Los Angeles teenager made himself the most popular member of community Web site MySpace.com earlier this month. While the attack caused little damage, the technique could be used to destroy Web site data or steal private information -- even from enterprise users behind protected networks, according to an Internet security firm.
Led by small to medium-size businesses, IT spending in the U.S. will increase by 5.5 percent in 2006, although the job market for IT workers will remain "challenging," Gartner said Wednesday.
A key feature in version 8.0 of Netscape Communication's Web browser may have deflated the Netscape browser's market share by as much as half earlier this year -- while artificially boosting the market share of rivals Firefox and Internet Explorer, a Web tracking firm said Tuesday.
The Mozilla Foundation has released a second beta of the Firefox 1.5 Web browser that, like the first version released last month, focuses on tackling nagging security issues.