Emerging Tech

The market for online business-to-business integration is in the middle of a consolidation as vendors join forces to offer solutions that expand traditional EDI (electronic data interchange) trading by implementing emerging XML technologies.

The professional services market felt another jolt from its smaller-size occupants last week as MarchFirst Inc. suffered resignations from some of its top executives and struggling Cambridge Technology Partners was bought by Novell Inc.

Silanis Technology Inc. announced on Monday its ApproveIt Collaboration Server (ACS), which allows trading partners to engage in online signing and documentation approvals without each party having Silanis' ApproveIt Desktop.

Feeling the competitive squeeze from Pocket PCs and Handspring Inc. Visors, Palm Inc. is releasing a new model that combines some of the major attractions of each while trying to keep the sleekness of a Palm V.

One in five children using Internet chat rooms are at risk from pedophiles, according to a report produced by the Internet Crime Forum and sponsored by the British government.

The recent market downturn has turned sentiment against the Internet portal concept, and the next 12 months will see a lot of consolidation among portals in Asia-Pacific, according to a report released Friday by market analyst International Data Corp. (IDC).

There's a saying in Spanish, "no hay mal que por bien no venga" (every cloud has a silver lining), which sums up well the views of a small panel that assembled in Los Angeles Friday to discuss e-commerce opportunities in Latin America. Even when times are hard, they said, opportunities present themselves to the industrious.

South African-based Dimension Data Holdings PLC (Didata) has agreed to buy North Carolina-based systems integration company, Premier Systems Integrators LLC in a US$138 million cash deal, the companies announced Thursday.