Stories by Mark Boslet

R&D drives on

At technology companies across the US, travel budgets have been slashed, hiring has been frozen, advertising has been put on hold and perks have been reined in. But there's one expense too important to cut: research and development.

Oracle says things could get worse

Oracle Corp. (ORCL) is finding the software market to be in greater turmoil than even it believed only two weeks ago - and things could get worse before they get better.

Clash of the titans

First it was the battle for the desktop. Then came the browser wars. Now the software industry is fighting over a new prize: dominance in Web services - products that help corporations migrate their operations to the Internet.

Two faces of Sun

Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott McNealy was in no mood for apologies. The financial markets were in turmoil, competitors were complaining of slowing sales and the exec was addressing analysts and investors in a mid-January conference call after the company released its second-quarter earnings. Sun, he asserted, would not only weather a deepening market downturn, it would actually prosper.

Comdex a Victim of Its Own Success

On the one hand, technology companies can get some pretty good exposure at Comdex.

Cisco's Earnings Soothe Wall Street

Cisco Systems eased Wall Street's worries of slowing growth by posting solid first-quarter results and projecting faster growth for next year than analysts had expected.

Cisco Leads Charge to Fund Optical Startup

Cisco Systems has joined 16 other venture investors to cough up $US109 million in funding for optical startup Novalux of Sunnyvale, Calif.