Microsoft today released two new open source tools to help developers take advantage of the .PST file format that’s used in the Outlook e-mail client app. The tools, released on the Microsoft CodePlex open source portal, include the .PST Data Structure View Tool and the .PST File Format Software Development Kit. Both are available under the open source Apache 2.0 license. The first tool is mostly for... 

IBM today said it has agreed to acquire Sterling Commerce, a supplier of software that performs large scale business-to-business transactions, from AT&T for $1.4 billion. One best known as a leading provider of electronic data interchange (EDI) software, Dublin, Ohio-based Sterling Commerce processes large volumes of transactions between b-to-b trading partners through public and private networks and cloud-based... 

There’s still a fair amount of time before HTML 5 is regularly seen on the world wide web. But it’s worth taking a closer look at some of the changes that are coming, and how they may benefit your ecommerce website. The main building block of any website is its markup language. The markup language is what structures the information on the page – indicating that one block of text is a heading and...