06:43 20.05.2006
SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, would be open to a merger or a takeover by companies such as IBM, Microsoft or Google, if the price were right, one of SAP's co-founders and biggest shareholders said.
In a research note to clients, Gartner said Microsoft is likely to push back the release of its Vista operating system to the second quarter of 2007, an assertion the company denied.
The cultural tendency in Chinese businesses to avoid the embarrassment of bad news can help turn minor problems into full-blown crises. One way of addressing the issue is to have good technology in place to automate reporting functions.
It's clear to me that there are pandemic memory problems in Firefox and that Mozilla has not responded adequately to them. But this is still my browser of choice, says Online Editorial Director Scot Finnie.
Microsoft scored a big win over the weekend when Amazon.com began using the software company's Windows Live technology to power the Internet retailer's A9 search unit.
Pure Digital Technologies'$129 Pure Digital Point and Shoot Camcorder, which went on sale at Target stores Monday, is aimed at young adult moms and dads. The new camcorder comes with a USB connector, which pops out of the side to plug directly into PCs. Built-in software is transferred to the PC, without doing an install.
MP3 players from mobiBLU have begun shipping to retail stores with preinstalled software that lets users download podcasts in one click.
Microsoft launches its Windows-based platform for companies that want to offer software as a service over the Web.
The next generation of spam and phishing e-mails could fool both software filters and the most cautious people by mimicking the way friends and real companies write messages.
What to do when facing plant closings, employee buyouts, and a flood of red ink? Start a blog. General Motors last week launched one on which employees can post, and it promised not to shy away from controversy. ... JDA Software plans to buy Manugistics for about$211 million cash, creating a$390 million-a-year supply chain and revenue management company. ... Microsoft last week bought AssetMetrix, an asset management vendor that at times refuted Microsoft's claims about how widely used its operating systems were in the months after new versions were released. ...
The Labor Department had ruled that downloaded software wasn't a product, so workers didn't qualify for the program.
