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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...

Wind River on Tuesday announced the availability of a high-performance Type-1 hypervisor as the latest addition to its VxWorks product portfolio. ...

The economy is still broken, and businesses are scampering to savemoney and entice back lost customers. Don't remind Brett Caine, though. As president of Citrix Online, he's too busy growing thecompany's customer base into aUS$100 million business that a few years ago didn't exist ...

The Asus EeeTop ET1602 is an interesting computer with some potentialfor home and business use. However, it will surely cause considerablediscussion over what users might really do with it ...

Google released on Tuesday a plug-in to its Google Apps arsenal thatcould be the last push needed to nudge some businesses into fully adoptingits cloud computing services ...

Trend Micro on Monday announced LeakProof 5.0, designed toreduce the complexity and cost often associated with the discovery,monitoring and blocking of sensitive enterprise data. New features are builtaround the Active Update service andlanguage-independent fingerprinting technology the company calls "DataDNA." ...

The end of mainstream support by Microsoft for Windows XP ended onApril 14. That deadline came and left with barely an audiblegroan from the minions of enterprise, small business and consumerusers of the decade-old operating system ...