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Today's volatile economy is pushing more companies to consider themerits of a virtual workplace for some or all of their employees.Often, however, the idea fails to goanywhere because neither managers nor their workers are sure how toget started ...

It is rather challenging to hit a moving target when it keeps changingdirections. That's a bit like how Cameron Brain, CEO of Open BoxTechnologies, felt when he set his sights ona particular business market while still in college ...

Openbravo announced on Tuesday its next-generation enterprise resourceplanning (ERP) product, called "QuickStart," an alternative to thecompany's generally more labor-intensive community package ...

Having secured funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners,Lightspeed Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures, MuleSourcecofounder Ross Mason turned what was the Mule Project into an opensource player on the fast track. Re-invigorated with new CEO GregSchott when another cofounder, Dave Rosenberg, left the company, MuleSource hasbeen ramping up its business in the wake of a recession that hasgutted some proprietary legacy players...

Mention social networks to most Web users, and they'll likelytell you about general-interest gathering places like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. However, other social networks -- some large, some small -- exist to provide users with a way to communicate about slightly more specific topics. LinkedIn, for one, emphasizes professional and career networking. Wesabe is one that's focused on personal finance...

The security of any given computer system is no better than the skills researchersbring to finding the next potential program flaw. Network securityworkers concentrate on updating patches and making sure only validatedusers can access the corporate LAN (local area network). Meanwhile, security researchershunt for existing but unidentified infrastructure flaws that could letin the bad guys...

In 2004, KnowledgeTree CEO Daniel Chalef had no idea his interest in developing an open sourcedocument management product would thrust his South African company into prominence.That's the time a government agency there approached him to help the Medical Research Council retain control of its documents and track sharedaccess ...

You might say that entrepreneur Alan E. Hall lives in two businessworlds. Don't complain to him how challenging it is to grow a businessin today's fragile economy. He knows those struggles firsthand as abusiness owner. He also knows how next-to-impossible it is forstartup business owners to find financial backers. ...

You might say that entrepreneur Alan E. Hall lives in two businessworlds. Don't complain to him how challenging it is to grow a businessin today's fragile economy. He knows those struggles firsthand as abusiness owner. He also knows how next-to-impossible it is forstartup business owners to find financial backers. ...

You might say that entrepreneur Alan E. Hall lives in two businessworlds. Don't complain to him how challenging it is to grow a businessin today's fragile economy. He knows those struggles firsthand as abusiness owner. He also knows how next-to-impossible it is forstartup business owners to find financial backers. ...

In the U.S., consumers are accustomed to paying for merchandise with checks, credit cards and debit cards. Online shopping and banking transactions are dependent on electronic money transfers between vendors and their customers' financial institutions ...

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses ways to transition into Linux without leaving Windows behind all at once ...

Microsoft has a very clever philosophy that it uses to keep consumersmisinformed about the benefits of the Linux operating system. It's asimple message that effectively dissuades consumers from deviatingfrom the Microsoft upgrade path to Windows 7 ...

Microsoft made good Tuesday on a promise it made months ago to the open source community that it would not sue software developers who use its EMCA C# programming language and Common LanguageInfrastructure, or CLI ...

It seemed like a logical leap: If you already provide shoppers with couponsonline, what's to stop you from offering them an online source for e-gift cards? ...

This story was originally published on April 6, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

Here's one of the many questions facing device makers targeting the mini notebook and netbook markets: When business users or consumers want to access the Web on the go, will they be willing to set aside a smartphone or cellphone and instead log on using a next-generation PDA? ...

Adesso's newest keyboard, the Wireless Slimtouch Ergo, is a love-it-or-hate-it type of product. If you can getalong without the features it misses and get through the learning curve,you might just keep it ...

T-Mobile's Tuesday announcement that it will offer a new Android smartphone in August has raised interest in the possibility of greater competition for enterprise adoption ...

SourceForge, a media services and e-commerce company that provides open source software downloads and development, is enjoying the best of both business worlds. It is one of the largest open source software repositories -- the SourceForge Web site has more than 30 million unique visitors permonth -- and it reported more than US$40 million in earnings for its last quarter, with no outstanding debt...