Sharon Machlis

Version 10 was already an improvement but version 11 of the venerable database app now includes charting and improved search

New York Times and Yellowpages.com development directors reveal how they achieved lightning fast turnaround and performance from 'tweak-friendly' Ruby on Rails

Without paper ballots, there is no way for candidates to contest a suspicious result.

The Mozilla Foundation released a beta version of Firefox 1.5, the first major upgrade of its popular open-source Web browser since Version 1.0 was released last November. Code-named Deer Park, Version 1.5 features automated patching and updates, which the foundation sees as a key security enhancement.

Students and developers at Google Inc. have jointly created an open-source tool designed to better predict the effect on real-world Web site performance if changes are made to things like network infrastructure.

Legacy systems pose a special challenge to retail and financial companies offering services online, several chief technology officers agreed during a panel discussion at last week's eTail2003 conference in Boston.

The U.S. government has formally adopted its next-generation data encryption standard, aimed at better protecting government data transmission and storage.

Channel conflict isn't something companies only need to worry about when they launch their e-commerce initiatives. If not handled properly, such conflicts can sabotage how businesses deal with their customers long after a Web site is in place, a Gartner Group Inc. analyst warned this morning at a conference here.