Stories about: Burger King

The long, oft-baffling "teaser" ads" by Microsoft featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates that kicked off two weeks ago are abruptly ending, the company said late Wednesday, as part two of its US$300 million Windows marketing rehab campaign begins.

As made abundantly clear with Friday's announcement, Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bid for search engine Yahoo was driven by the software giant's desire to stay viable in the online advertising market.

BEA Systems Tuesday rolled out a blended set of development products that meld open source and commercial Java tools.

BEA Systems is blending open source and commercial developer tools in a release of its Workshop development tool for Java.

Many of us thought that the great chasm that divided us into free and not free ceased to be a model of the world orderabout the time that the Berlin Wall fell. Politically, that's true, but a similar chasm is developing today in the worlds of business and IT. In fact, any IT professional who is not thinking in terms of free vs. not free is behind the times. You need to polish your strategy lens and recalibrate your business model. You need to get busy giving stuff away and getting it for free.

Boingo Wireless announced last week that it is further expanding its Asia-Pacific presence by inking agreements with three providers in that region.

Want to complete a project successfully? Then you'd better have success at the start. That means getting requirements right, and there are as many ways to do that as there are business analysts charged with getting it done.

Diageo's IT organization is going through a period of change. At the core of our transformation is our vision of complete IT and business alignment. We're on a journey to become a seamless extension of our business, helping to drive top- and bottom-line growth.

MWeb Business has postponed an eMarketing workshop due to be held in partnership with Cape-based eMarketing company, Quirk Business Solutions, and aimed at SME owners in Cape Town. This was due to a lack of attendance. This postponement raises the question: Have South Africa's businesses really woken up to the realization that eMarketing can be an extremely valuable, cost-effective tool?

Alcoholic-beverage giant Diageo PLC has hired IBM Corp. to transform and manage its IT infrastructure, which, after several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, needs to be made more uniform and homogeneous, the companies announced.

My next few e-business insights will be posted from various European locations as I and my son spend the summer in a sort of combination father-and-son-bonding/midlife-crisis wander around the globe. Last week in London I saw my first Internet booth while traipsing through Soho - it looked like a phone booth, just out on the street corner, and provided a convenient way for passersby to check e-mail, and for errant correspondents to stay in touch with their editors. My son and I marveled also at the fact that there was a free e-mail station in the dining room of the local Burger King.