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Not All Welcome Open XML Standard
Microsoft Corp. is welcoming Ecma Internationals acceptance of its application to turn its Office Open XML Formats into a standard, but some analysts, lawyers...
Compuware Updates Application Quality Tools
Compuware Corp. Tuesday announced enhancements to its application quality solutions—The Compuware Application Reliability Solution and Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition.
The new releases, version 5.1 of...
NetScout Boosts Disaster Recovery Capabilities
NetScout Systems Inc. on Tuesday delivered disaster recovery to its performance and application management users when it released a new standby server for its...
AMD Pushes for Greater Enterprise Share
AUSTIN, Texas—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is looking to use its AMD64 technology to drive adoption of such form factors as blade servers and client-side...
Companies Embracing Skype—With Reservations
With more than 13 million users worldwide, Skype has quickly become the Internets favorite free peer-to-peer voice-over-IP application.
"Skype has become very successful because its...
Changes in Firefox 1.5 are Few but Significant
Calling Firefox 1.5 a major new release is probably overstating things a bit, but the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser does...
Staying the Course—or Not
• Consistency. In 1996, IBMs then chairman and CEO, Lou Gerstner, set about codifying the rules and the borders between direct sales and sales...
IRS Makes Less Taxing Web Site
A major redesign of the Internal Revenue Services public-facing Web site makes search and navigation less taxing for users.
The IRS Web site was launched...
Executives Lobby for Increased R&D
Top executives from more than 50 corporations and universities around the country were in Washington last week to hobnob with members of President Bushs...
Cisco Suite Breaks Ground
Cisco Systems Inc. this week will launch a suite of network management tools that marks the companys first attempt at providing multivendor network management.The...