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Oracle Upgrades Financial Modules
Beefing up the financial modules that complement its E-Business Suite, Oracle Corp. announced Wednesday upgrades to its namesake Internal Controls Manager and Financial Consolidation...
Glitchy Systems Worsen Drug-Benefit Snafus
As the year ended, Bonnie Burns—a training and policy specialist with California Health Advocates, a nonprofit that counsels people on Medicare—was stretched to the...
Symantec Caught in Norton Rootkit Flap
Symantec Corp. has admitted to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious...
AMCC, Maxtor Give Mac Users a Taste of Storage
Establishing a foothold within the largely untapped Macintosh platform storage arena, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. and Maxtor Corp. have rolled out new Serial ATA...
CA Nabs Remote Control Provider Control-F1
Computer Associates International Inc. on Wednesday filled in a missing piece of its service desk offering when it acquired privately held remote control provider...
VeriSign Buys Billing Specialist for $30M
VeriSign Inc. said Wednesday it plans to buy online phone billing and customer care specialist CallVision Inc. for $30 million in order to improve...
Sun Pushes Eco-Friendly Tech with SWaP Metric
Sun Microsystems Inc. wants its users to SWaP for energy efficiency.
The Santa Clara, Calif., company is pushing the SWaP metric as a cornerstone of...
Nokia and Kyocera Settle Patent Spat
Handset makers Nokia Corp. and Kyocera Wireless Corp. have ended their long-running patent dispute in favor of a new agreement through which the mobile...
DHS Funds Open-Source Security Project
The U.S. governments Department of Homeland Security plans to spend $1.24 million over three years to fund an ambitious software auditing project aimed at...
Dell Eyeing AMD Again?
Dell Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. could soon be more than neighbors in Texas, reports say.
Financial firm Piper Jaffray & Co. suggests, in...