Matthew Hicks

Qualcomm Inc. Thursday released the latest version of its Eudora e-mail software with a focus on stopping unwanted e-mail and simplifying long e-mail threads. With Eudora 6.0, Qualcomm is beginning a more aggressive push in updating the Eudora product line and pitting it as an alternative to Microsoft Corp., which dominates the e-mail space with […]

Charles Phillips knows the software market. Before moving to Oracle Corp. in May 2003 and working directly for Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison, Phillips analyzed enterprise software with Morgan Stanleys Institutional Securities Division. Phillips, an Oracle executive vice president, talked with eWEEK.com Reporter Matt Hicks about Oracles next big push—grid computing—and the companys future plans. […]

Heading into its major trade show of the year, Oracle Corp. is at a crossroads. It is launching what its executives say is its biggest new technology release in a decade, and it is doing so in the middle of an ongoing tussle to take over business applications competitor PeopleSoft Inc. At next weeks Oracle […]

FileMaker Inc. is expanding beyond database software this week by entering the business applications market. On Wednesday, FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc., plans to announce two of a series of forthcoming applications—FileMaker Recruiter and FileMaker Meeting—that will sit atop its FileMaker Pro 6 database. FileMaker Recruiter is targeted toward helping recruiters manage searches, […]

The Mozilla Foundation this week launched a beta of the latest version of its open-source browser and applications suite, the first release since the project separated from America Online Inc.s Netscape Communications subsidiary. With the Mozilla 1.5 Beta, the project is promising improvements in performance, stability, standards support and Web compatibility. But new features are […]

Microsoft Corp. is planning to alter its market-leading Internet Explorer Web browser as a result of a recent $521 million browser-patent verdict against it. “Microsoft has indicated to W3C [Worldwide Web Consortium] that they will very soon be making changes to its Internet Explorer browser software in response to this ruling,” wrote W3C Chief Operating […]

Opera Software ASA has released a beta version of the next release of its Web browser for Windows that features faster performance and support for bidirectional languages. Opera 7.20 for Windows Beta, announced Wednesday, focuses on improving Java Script performance, once a weak point for Opera, as well as faster user interface, and Web page […]

The new management of a company that had claimed to be working on a PC emulation product called RealPC for the Mac OS X admitted on Wednesday that no formal development had ever begun on the product. FWB Software Inc., before a management shakeup in July, had indicated during media interviews and on the companys […]

Microsoft Corp. is developing a licensing program for third-party instant messaging clients and services that want to continue accessing its .Net Messaging Service, but it comes with a catch. Microsoft cant guarantee that formal licensing terms and conditions will be ready in time to meet the Oct. 15 cutoff it set for blocking unauthorized IM […]

Amazon.com has ratcheted up its fight against spammers this week, filing federal lawsuits on Monday and Tuesday against 11 online marketers it says are fraudulently sending e-mails that appear to come from the online retailer. Amazon.com, of Seattle, is seeking both to restrain the marketers from sending further forged e-mails and to deter copycats by […]