According to this article in E-Commerce Times, users only spend one third of their time online to send email. Most of the remaining 70% is consumed by reading. The only thing really interesting about...

The HotLan Trojan is the latest development of an industry that is apparantly worth a lot of money. Recently it was reported that the captcha system had been cracked, and aparently that has been done...

Oracle has never been known to be cheap, and they hold on to the image. After a long wait, the price of Oracle 11g has finally been announced at a staggering $40,000 per cpu or $800 per user. The...

The Santa Cruz Operation, probably the most hated company that has even been involved in unix, has claimes to "own unix" for years, trying to squeeze cash out of a lot of companies. Several...

Palm's latest product, the Foleo, will be Linux powered. The device is meant to be a companion for other Palm devices such as the treo smartphone, and flawlessly integrates with it. Palm has just...

Google tried to bid on the 700mhz spectrum recently with added conditions to their bid. Google wanted the regulator to specify the winning bidder must give users freedom to connect any devices to the...

When Novell adopted linux, we all thought this was not going to last. But it seems that it is a (relative) success, as Novell has made SUSE Linux grow up and they've accomplished selling it to...

SUN Microsystems is doing well. It has been troublesome for quite some time, after the rise of Linux which was more flexible from the beginning. Where SUN tried to gain ground by trying to convince...

Skype, probably the biggest non-SIP voip provider in the world, violates GPLv2, the open source license. The software itself is fine, but one of the SMC phones they sell through their site runs linux....

Nokia is one of these companies of which you don't expect to move into another field but the cellphone business. But Nokia looks beyond it's horizon and expands into the Web world. Not so long...

Tomtom, the famous producer of gps navigation units, currently the biggest in Europe, has announced a bid of €1.8bn on Teleatlas, a creator of maps for use in electronic navigation devices. It's...

Nickelodeon is one of the bestknown producers of programs and shows for children - my little girl (3) loves the nickelodeon junior channel here in the Netherlands, and she's right. Some of the...

In the US, a company called Ooma offers a VOIP solution with free domestic calls for the rest of your life. You can obtain this by buying their phone (called the Hub, 399 USD), which connects to your...

Sunrocket is a VOIP provider, which means their main product is a telephone connection running over an IP network, which is in most cases, the internet. Sunrocket has closed it's doors.SunRocket...

IBM has never had the reputation of being open before, but in 2007, where SUN's Solaris is now known as OpenSolaris and can be downloaded for free, IBM has shown they did not get stuck in the...

eSnailer is a webservice that let's you send regular mail (aka snail mail) to anyone in the US using only your webbrowser. Why ? I am not sure, however I know there are cases where you simply need...

Verbatim is one of the biggest producers of media (cd's, dvd's and such) worldwide, providing solid quality at an ever-growing demand. Verbatim has just aquired SmartDisk, a vendor of portable...

RIM, the company that invented and markets the blackberry will start selling blackberry devices in China. This gives RIM a big headstart in the mobile messaging market. The only remaining question is...

Apple obviously wants to become the biggest in the electronic music delivery world, and Vivendi's Universal wants to be art of it. The two signed a deal for two years, which was extended with on...

In every profession, every business there are jobs nobody wants. In IT, I would really hate working at a helpdesk, and I never have. Apparently, working at Microsoft's Security Center is one of...