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Microsoft Seeks to Lure PeopleSoft Users
Microsoft Corp. didnt waste any time in trying to win over ERP customers who might be unhappy with Oracle Corp.s recent purchase of PeopleSoft...
Yahoo Builds Traffic Updates into Maps
Yahoo Inc. wants to make driving easier by merging traffic information into its online maps and driving directions.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced late Wednesday...
IBM Unleashes New RFID Middleware
In the increasingly competitive RFID arena, IBM on Thursday will release the first three products from its recently formed $250 million S&A (Sensor &...
HP to Invest $3 Billion in Itanium-Powered Servers
Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to spend $3 billion over the next three years to grow the server product line that runs on Intel Corp.s...
Microsoft Makes Giant Anti-Spyware Acquisition
Microsoft Corp. has bought into the anti-spyware business.
Just two months after Chairman Bill Gates dropped a strong hint that Microsoft planned to do something...
EU Council Set to Approve Patent Proposal
The EUs controversial proposal on patenting "computer-implemented inventions" has unexpectedly cleared a major hurdle, with the Council of the European Union set to give...
IBM Storage Bricks Build Toward Petabyte Level
IBM has made progress over the past year in developing a new water-cooled, modular mass storage system designed to be highly fault-tolerant and make...
Holes Found in Cisco, Veritas, Samba Products
Thursday was a big day for vulnerability announcements, but not necessarily for big vulnerabilities. Cisco on Thursday announced two problems with its products, one...
With Non-Critical Bugs Like These, Who Needs the Real Thing?
It sure caught me by surprise. After Microsofts early warning indicated that the five vulnerability disclosures this week would be no more than "Important"—as...
Oracle Launches Low-Cost Storage Initiative
Oracle Corp. is using the same "tie together cheap boxes" mindset that it cooked up for its Database 10g push, but this time, its...