President George W. Bush has announced that IBM has been awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Technology Administration in recognition of more than four decades of innovation in semiconductor technology.

A year and a day exactly after Mozilla first rolled out its popular Firefox Web browser, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 became available for download - made available to the techno-savvy for testing purposes only, with no end-user support.

New companies like salesforce.com and Google have 'real businesses that can challenge and win against the old guard companies,' said SalesForce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff this week in a public riposte to Gates's speech this week about the end of software an...

HP has introduced an expanded Total Print Management portfolio - the company's integrated suite of devices, management software and services designed to help businesses streamline their printing and imaging resources and document output.

The Associated Press and MSN have announced that they are teaming to provide AP members with news video for their Web sites: the AP Online Video Network is born.

MicrosoftZone.Com has started the process of building new Corporate Board of Directors to coordinate bringing to market our new suite of Business Intelligence products and services.

Synaptris, a provider of enterprise reporting solutions has announced the release of IntelliVIEW Designer 3.0, a product that is slated to add significant power into their IntelliVIEW suite of products.

MapInfo has reported earnings per share of $0.18 for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005, representing the tenth consecutive quarter of year-over-year earnings per share growth for the company.

In conjunction with the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Software FX is offering Chart FX for Visual Studio 2005 which has integrated development environment integration and easy deployment.

Perforce Software has announced that IHP has selected Perforce, the fast Software Configuration Management system, to manage the development of its hardware and software solutions.

Dassault and IBM has announced the release of Version 5 of their Product Lifecycle Management portfolio.

GraphOn Corporation, a developer of cross-platform application publishing and Web-enabling software, has announced that it has entered into a distributorship agreement with Netherlands-based Acropolis Automation BV.

Now the next question coming from the spin circles is 'Will Oracle buy Borland?' Similar questions were raised when IBM's WebSphere chief John Swainson joined CA as their CEO earlier this year.

A report in The New York Times yesterday suggests that 'Microsoft has emerged as the front-runner in the talks surrounding the potential sale of a stake in America Online.'

Seapine Software has announced that it is giving away fully functional TestTrack Pro and Surround SCM software licenses at the Australian Game Developers Conference in Melbourne.

'Over the past few months, I have been pleased to see a renewed focus on AOL at Time Warner, and the emergence of so many strategic alternatives,' said America Online co-founder Steve Case as he yesterday resigned from the board of Time Warner. He remains one of T...

SYS-CON Media's new Website, currently serving readers in its beta version, becomes the fastest growing i-technology media Website in the world, according to independent Alexa ratings, an Amazon.com company. Two year comparison of SYS-CON.com 'page views' statis...

IBM has announced a new plug-in for its enterprise search technology that will allow it to integrate with Google Desktop for Enterprise, a free downloadable application that enables companies to provide employees with the ability to search for information on their computer.

'VitalStream is one of the only companies with the knowledge, experience and delivery platform to bring these diverse elements together into a full-service solution,' said Jack Waterman, CEO at VitalStream, as his company today introduced a single-source, full-ser...

OutsourceWorld New York 2005, the leading outsourcing event in the U.S., will present a highly focused program of expert industry speakers and the largest compilation of onshore, nearshore and offshore outsourcing vendors and service providers in a single venue. T...

Virgin Mobile USA, Visage Mobile and Covad, will present scenarios combining their strengths with Patni Computer Systems telecom capabilities at Siebel CustomerWorld 2005.

The largest interoperability announcement of the year so far is due to come today, as Microsoft and Yahoo! announce that they will link their IM services to compete with the other giants of instant messaging and VOIP, AOL and Google.

Even though Apple sold 6.5 million iPods and achieved quarterly revenues of $3.68 billion, analysts who had been hoping to see $3.73 billion in sales were disappointed with its fiscal 2005 Q4 results and Apple shares accordingly fell 10% last night.

Real Networks, which has been suing Microsoft for $1BN, is about to settle for $750M today, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper says that ex-Microsoftie Rob Glaser (pictured), founder and CEO of RealNetworks, Inc, will agree to end the ...

'Gathering intelliegence data is only half the battle. Making effective use of it is a critical next step,' said Shiv Kumar of Synaptris during his SYS-CON.TV interview with host Roger Strukhoff. 'Let's take for example the advent of the Web. Five years back anybo...

Jeremy Allaire's Brightcove today announced that About.com founder and Internet visionary Scott Kurnit will join its board of directors along with former Lycos General Counsel Andrew Feinberg and former Macromedia VP Adam Berrey.

'Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt take the stage at the Computer History Museum on October 4 at 10:30 AM PT to discuss joint activities.' That, in total, is the announcement up on the Sun web site. What will they announce? The industry guessing has begun.

The Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) came alive on Friday when Linus Torvalds chose to write, in a discussion about the risks of following specs without being flexible enough to take reality into account: 'A 'spec' is close to useless. I have _never_ seen a spec t...

'The success of our free browser proves the world is ready for a fresh option,' said Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner, just a few days after gaining hundreds of thousands of new users for the Opera browser through the simple device of making it free as in beer. It i...

Internet advertising revenue in the USA, according to a newly released report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, shot up by 26% (to $3BN) in the second quarter of 2005, bringing the total revenue for the first half of 2005 to $5.8BN.

'Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they're tremendous tools of freedom of express...

It was confirmed today that Palm is going to release its first Treo running not the Palm OS, but Windows Mobile 5.0 - and today too Windows Mobile is at the very heart of Derek Ferguson's SYS-CON interactive webinar. You can register right away, the webinar starts at 3PM today.

Internet search powerhouse Google has launched an engine tuned to scouring blog entries for fresh news and views. 'Every day, millions of bloggers use the web to express themselves -- sometimes to just a few friends, sometimes to a worldwide audience,' Jason Goldm...

Working with MSN Virtual Earth, MSNBC.com has devised 'Katrina Flyover,' a collection of one-of-a-kind before and after images of coastal and inland areas damaged by the hurricane, including New Orleans, La., and Biloxi, Miss.

Nanocasting, a model for commercial podcasting based on established media and direct marketing principles, differs from early podcasting by beginning with a clear definition of the target audience, the business model, the revenue model and use of a system specific...

'We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there,' said Sun's president and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, this week as Sun indicated the thawing of its long-standing chilly relations with Linux vendor Red Hat.

'By combining the two leading ecommerce franchises, eBay and PayPal, with the leader in Internet voice communications, Skype, we will create an extraordinarily powerful environment for business on the net,' said eBay's Meg Whitman as it was confirmed yesterday tha...

SYS-CON's various news desks continue to bring word of the latest companies to join to concerted effort to help with money and resources, both cash and human volunteers. Not since the Asian tsunami disaster have so many companies rushed to show corporate America a...

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 just became available for early adopters, Web site/Web application developers, and Firefox Extension developers. Mozilla.org provides Firefox for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages and 1.5 Beta 1 can be downloaded from the Mozilla.org site.

The Adobe LiveCycle server platform, which runs on BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and JBoss, has been enhanced and – beginning September 19, for a subscription fee of US $1495 for one year – developers can receive access to Adobe LiveCycle software, suppo...