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- Company says the upcoming WebSphere App Server Version 6.0 will be instrumental in helping corporate users take their first stab at creating service-oriented architectures. |
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- Oracle, Sun and BEA Systems head a list of 10 vendors that last week announced the formation of a group called the Java Tools Community. But two of the biggest Java vendors, IBM and Borland, decided not to join. |
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- H. Lee Scott, president and CEO of the retailer, said at the National Retail Federation conference that he remains confident that suppliers will be able to move to the technology by next January. |
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- The high volume of support calls for the operating systems from users in small, emerging markets, including Kazakhstan, Kenya, Slovenia, Tunisia and Ivory Coast, drove the decision, Microsoft officials said. |
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- The new fund is being created with support from Intel, IBM and others to help defend Linux users from copyright-infringement lawsuits that might be filed against them by The SCO Group Inc. |
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- Technology news in brief. |
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- Frankly Speaking: Frank Hayes asks, Are there open-source alternatives good enough for you to use? It's a good time to find out because, if so, you can use them to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft. |
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- Despite the discovery of more flaws in the Linux kernel, users last week remained confident about the security of the operating system. |
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- On the Mark: Mark Hall observes that Apple is breaking into new markets with cheap, fast, dual-processor servers. MySQL 5 goes alpha. And what's with wireless TV? |
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- The high volume of support calls for the operating systems from users in small, emerging markets, including Kazakhstan, Kenya, Slovenia, Tunisia and Ivory Coast, drove the decision, Microsoft officials said. |
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- Frankly Speaking: Frank Hayes asks, Are there open-source alternatives good enough for you to use? It's a good time to find out because, if so, you can use them to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft. |
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- Frankly Speaking: Frank Hayes asks, Are there open-source alternatives good enough for you to use? It's a good time to find out because, if so, you can use them to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft. |
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- HUD's decision to award an $860 million IT services contract to EDS was "troubling," according to the GAO. |
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- The General Services Administration decided to stop proceedings that could have led to MCI being banned from competing for new federal contracts or extensions of existing ones -- and that could have forced agency IT execs to find new network services providers. |
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- Toshiba develops first 0.85-inch HDD for mobile phones and portable consumer electronics |
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- What's the PM got to hide? |
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- Vital role for traffic police, not road cameras, says Damian Green. |
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- A quick review of an interaction design basic: affordances. An affordance is a design technique that allows people to intuit how to use an interface control by sight alone. For example, a knob affords turning. A switch affords flipping. |
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- Your guide to Phoenix, Arizona: Do eat at La Tolteca, 1205 E. Van Buren. Open for 42 years and serving some of the best El Pastor I've ever had. Do visit the Desert Botanical Gardens in Papago Park. |
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- Stellent, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Optika Inc. an enterprise content management (ECM) provider of imaging, business process management (BPM), collaboration and records management software, for $10 million in cash, approximately 4.1 million shares of Stellent common stock and the assumption by Stellent of Optika's outstanding options. Based on Stellent's stock price as of Jan. |
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- Adobe Systems Incorporated shipped Adobe FrameMaker 7.1 software, the upgrade to its enterprise authoring and publishing solution. Importing and migrating technical documents into FrameMaker 7.1 is now easier and faster. With the Conditional Text feature, authors can maintain different variations of a document in a single XML source file. |
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- Cardiff Software Inc. and Relizon announced a strategic alliance to deliver business process automation solutions for Relizon's customers. The integration of Cardiff's eForm solutions with Relizon's end-to-end business process design and management will provide productivity gains from the enterprise-wide document management process. The Relizon-Cardiff solution development will center on Cardiff's LiquidOffice, a Web-based eForm automation solution for creating, deploying and automatically managing the routing, tracking and approval processes for electronic forms. LiquidOffice's automation of internal and external forms helps organizations increase efficiency and productivity, while its use of XML, HTML and PDF ensure enterprise connectivity with database, ERP, accounting and back-office applications. |
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- iPhrase Technologies, Inc. announced the acquisition of Banter Systems, Inc., a provider of automatic classification software used to understand unstructured content and informal communications. iPhrase acquired Banter in an all-stock transaction. The deal doubles the size of iPhrase's engineering team. |
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- H. Lee Scott, president and CEO of the retailer, said at the National Retail Federation conference that he remains confident that suppliers will be able to move to the technology by next January. |
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- MetroFi, a start-up founded by former Covad executives, plans to build a nationwide broadband access network based on Wi-Fi technology. |
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- The Wi-Fi Alliance puts products through rigorous testing process before granting stamp of approval. |
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- Intel and several European retailers have created The EPC Product Retail Users Group of Europe. |
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- Paul Funk, president of Funk Software, traces the evolution of the RADIUS server through different network mediums and its growing role in wireless technologies. |
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- Three emerging display technologies could extend the life of the CRT and offer improvements in area such as projection systems and digital signage. |
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IV 04 (Jan 12 2004 00:00 GMT) - 8th international conference on Information Visualization, including Symposium of Human-Computer Interaction for Information Visualization. |
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- Det Spøker I Vagbladet! |
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TheSpoof (Jan 12 2004 00:00 GMT) - Elicia Battle Claims She Lost Her Ticket To See 'my Baby's Daddy' |
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TheSpoof (Jan 12 2004 00:00 GMT) - Dead Hand Up BirdAnd#39;s Arse To Save British Entertainment |
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- Mit 2000 Dollar im Reisegepäck kehrte Daniel Devigili aus der Spielermetropole Las Vegas nach Österreich zurück. |
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- Oracle, Sun and BEA Systems head a list of 10 vendors that last week announced the formation of a group called the Java Tools Community. But two of the biggest Java vendors, IBM and Borland, decided not to join. |
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- Even so, there was still a late surge in job cuts in the telecommunications industry in the fourth quarter of the year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. |
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- Is studying overhead costs, such as sales, general and administrative expenses, a valid way to measure IT productivity? |
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- Opinion: Paul A. Strassmann says that the IT infrastructure will follow labor out of the organization. |
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- When DaimlerChrysler Services' integration project hit snags, good project management practices put it back on track. |
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Think Tank (Jan 12 2004 00:00 GMT) - Brain food for IT executives: IT's role in "flawless operational execution," and how to give job applicants a test drive. |
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- Management guru Warren Bennis applies Shakespeare's soliloquy about the seven ages of man to leadership development and comes up with a career plan for growth and effectiveness. |
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- MySQL AB, Hersteller der weltweit populärsten Open-Source-Datenbank MySQL®, gibt bekannt, dass ab sofort die neue Version MySQL 5.0 erhältlich ist. Das neue Release unterstützt nun erstmals Stored Procedures sowie weitere Technologien, die die Entwicklung umfang-reicher Geschäftsanwendungen vereinfachen. MySQL 5.0 steht der Open-Source-Community derzeit in der Alpha-Version für Test- und Evaluierungszwecke zur Verfügung. |
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- Company says the upcoming WebSphere App Server Version 6.0 will be instrumental in helping corporate users take their first stab at creating service-oriented architectures. |
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- Oracle, Sun and BEA Systems head a list of 10 vendors that last week announced the formation of a group called the Java Tools Community. But two of the biggest Java vendors, IBM and Borland, decided not to join. |
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- The Nasdaq resumed its merry climb in defiance of scant job growth, high oil prices and the ailing dollar. Alcoa and Merck slowed the Dow. Accounting woes slammed Adecco. |
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- Walgreen has both. Why the drug-store legend's prospects still look bright. |
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Swiss Miss (Jan 12 2004 00:00 GMT) - Adecco's shares sank 31% after the Switzerland-based staffing firm warned of problems with its books. |
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- Stock picking isn't very important. It's what you do next that counts. |
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