Stacy Cowley

Since WorldCom Inc.'s revelation last week of the largest accounting deception in corporate history, a snowball effect has kicked in, with company after company admitting to bookkeeping irregularities and management crises. The flood is unlikely to end soon: With a corporate earnings season beginning and increasing pressure from politicians and regulators, the next few months will be a prime time for further disclosures.

With corporate portals still a developing and nebulously defined software category, a successful implementation hinges on having clear goals and on paying keen attention to user experience

The biggest challenge facing Java is a marketing one, agreed panelists pondering the issue of "Supercharging Java with Web Services" at a Web Services Edge keynote in New York Tuesday. The Web Services Edge conference is being held alongside TechXNY/PC Expo this week at New York's Javits Convention Center.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is furloughing for three weeks most of its North American network of outside contractors that provide IT support, a move the company estimates will save it US$15 million to $20 million.

Microsoft Corp. plans to bundle a version of Crystal Decisions Inc.'s Crystal Enterprise business intelligence application with its forthcoming Microsoft CRM (customer relationship management) software, the companies said Wednesday.

IT companies lose billions annually through inefficient management of their working capital, a problem that is exacerbated when the economy worsens as it did during 2001, according to a study to be released Monday by REL Consultancy Group.

IT companies lose billions annually through inefficient management of their working capital, a problem that is exacerbated when the economy worsens as it did during 2001, according to a study to be released Monday by REL Consultancy Group.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will finish its planned 15,000 layoffs by the end of its 2003 fiscal year, with 10,000 of those layoffs completed by November of 2002, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Carly Fiorina said Tuesday in her opening address at a daylong meeting with financial analysts in Boston.