As tensions between Japan and China escalate over arguments with origins in World War II, technology companies should prepare to lessen their reliance on the two countries, according to market research company Gartner Dataquest. "More than 95 percent of the largest 2,000 companies in the world have extensive interests, investments and employees in China and Japan," said Dion Wiggins, vice

Open Source is becoming a European priority: The European Union is putting money toward research into open-source software and standards across the world. The newly approved funding--660,00 euros, or $825,594--is for the two-year FLOSSWorld project, Europe's first initiative to support international research and policy development on "free/libre/open source software." Previous FLOSS

The future of business applications is on the web. IBM's interest to the area is strong proof of it. Increasing its focus on the hosted-applications sector, IBM on Wednesday launched programs designed to support companies that build, sell and market Web-based software to businesses. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company introduced a set of initiatives aimed at helping its independent software

Ukraine's IT infrastructure is rapidly developing. As the recent research conducted by the Ukrainian Democratic Initiatives Fund and Kiev International Sociology Institute has shown, 13.1% of Ukrainians have a computer. 14% use Internet and/or email either at home or at work. Internet connectivity, being one of the primary concerns for offshoring, is also developing rapidly. Telecom is one

While Microsoft is still in the process of developing Longhorn that should reportedly improve searching, among other things, they can't find anything better to do but have a go at Google. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, spoke during a lecture at Stanford Business School about the potential of the software considering the continuous expansion of the computing processes in other domains besides