Monthly Archives: August 2004
ILM System Eases Insurers Storage Tasks
Mitchell International Inc. needed to find a way to archive its data—while keeping it easily accessible on demand—to avoid a storage wreck.
Mitchell, based in...
eBay: Sold on Grid
Following the disastrous outages of 1999, online auction company eBay Inc. launched an overhaul of its IT infrastructure, rebuilding its data centers around a...
VBSALT 1.0 Quickly Builds Speech Apps
Pronexus Inc.s VBSALT 1.0, the first rapid application development tool for Microsoft Corp.s Speech Server 2004, does a good job of abstracting call flow...
Checking Up on Vendor Consistency
The hard drive in my much-abused laptop recently had its consistency checked for the umpteenth time. During the checking process, I suspected—and was correct—that...
Minibar Madness
From: [email protected]: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:42 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: Conspicuous Cron-ic consumption; MSG purveyorsIn the Big Apple for vendor meetings, Spence sat in...
HP Still Working Out Compaq Kinks
More than two years after Hewlett-Packard Co. merged with Compaq Computer Corp., integration of the two companies IT systems is still causing HP headaches.
The...
Cisco Links IP Telephony to Microsoft CRM
Cisco Systems Inc., in its small and midsize business alliance with Microsoft Corp., last week released a program that integrates its IP telephony software...
Speech Applications Voice New Strengths
Companies that want to broaden the range of features in telephony-based applications now have more options through speech recognition, but the new technology will...
Bank Aims to Cash In with Speech Services
Woodforest National Bank is looking at speech recognition as a way to improve customer service over its existing touch-tone telephone banking system.
Based in The...
ATG Provides a Solid E-Commerce Platform
Art Technology Group Inc.s ATG Commerce 6.4 may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking of high-end e-commerce platforms, but...