Ariba and Rightworks produce similar technology.i2 partnered with Ariba and IBM last March in a major B2B alliance. A total of $90m was spent on advertising the pact, but the alliance suffered from poor demand and conflicting business strategies.
The Consumers' Association has predicted the death of email, as more and more people see answering their inbox as a chore rather than a pleasure. In the annual Which? Survey of internet use 16 million UK citizens were regularly logging on, of whom...
Chip firm Rambus saw its profits and revenue fall last quarter in a tough market - but lower legal costs have helped the company beat analysts' estimates. Profits for the quarter were down on the same period a year earlier, at $6.75m compared to...
UK businesses sold 39 per cent more over the internet in 2002 than they did in 2001, up from £16.82bn to £23.3bn. The latest statistics for that calendar year, as produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), also found £6.4bn of the...
A smarter form of radio frequency ID chips called Near Field Communications (NFC) will take off but that will be as much because of the mobile phone industry as because of their use in consumer electronics.
O2 has promised its new found love for the i-mode data platform won't see it kill off its own portal, O2 Active, which is based on WAP.i-mode, the mobile internet platform invented by NTT DoCoMo in Japan and used by more than 45 million people...