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When Yahoo and AOL instituted a program in February that would charge advertisers microscopic amounts to send e-mail ads to AOL and Yahoo customers, they triggered and ear-shattering level of caterwauling. That whingeing was music to my ears—I love the sound of incompetent marketers crying in the morning. The leadership AOL and Yahoo provided may […]

After a full year under the watchful eye of Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, the Palo Alto, Calif., company is aggressively reinvigorating its storage business following years of underperformance. With solid technology acquisitions such as AppIQ and OuterBay, coupled with storage portfolio enhancements designed to more closely align the relationship of storage to other enterprise systems, […]

Microsoft Business Solutions unit and its partners are testing new Web-service add-ons to Microsofts ERP and CRM applications by making code available under various Microsofts Shared Source licenses. Microsoft quietly has been posting these add-ons to workspaces on its GotDotNet source-code hosting site since last fall. Like the MSN business unit, MSB (Microsoft Business Solutions) […]

IntegrationJuly 05 ContextMedia; some assets of ContextMedia, a content integration software developer; undisclosed sum Vertical marketsApril 05 Retek; retail software; bidding war with SAP; $496 millionJuly 05 ProfitLogic; pricing optimization software for retail industry; undisclosed sumAug. 05 I-Flex Solutions; banking industry software and Indias largest software company; $909 millionJan. 06 360Commerce; merchandising and supply chain […]

ThinMind Helps Get the Job(S) Done One of the most amazing aspects of Shift Technologies ThinMind is that such a well-done application costs so little: Each of the three ThinMind modules—time, expense and project management—costs $5 per user per month. ThinMind is particularly well-suited for consulting because Shift Technologies has made it easy to associate, […]

After months of maintaining that it had not yet finalized its Windows Vista lineup, Microsoft seems finally to have decided upon a half dozen core Vista versions. According to a posting on its Web site, Microsoft is readying six core Vista packages, or SKUs, plus two additional releases customized for the European Union that wont […]

NEW YORK—Here you have a healthy appetite. Since the Informix deal in 2001, IBM has acquired a whopping 16 companies in its Information On Demand initiative. But that aint nuthin. It capped off the buying spree on Feb. 16 by announcing a three-year, $1 billion, 25,000-body effort to turn Information On Demand into packaged products. […]

Enterprise router customers voted with their dollars in 2005, send-ing the worldwide market up 14 percent in unit shipments, but down 3 percent in total revenue. Those findings, reported on Feb. 16 by Infonetics Research Inc. in its latest Enterprise Router report, suggest that competitive pricing pressure has pushed down prices across the board, even […]

Microsoft still is expected to deliver the next Windows Vista milestone, the February Community Technology Preview release, next week — most likely on Feb. 21, according to testers briefed last month by Microsoft. While beta testers contacted this week said they had received no updated information as to when to expect the so-called February Community […]

Microsoft is expected to deliver the next Windows Vista milestone, the February Community Technology Preview release, next week—most likely on Feb. 21, according to testers briefed last month by Microsoft. Around the same time that it releases the updated test build of its next version of Windows, Microsoft also is expected to launch a beta […]

After more than two years of rumor and speculation surrounding its plans to create a new suite of Office servers designed to complement its desktop Office offerings, Microsoft on Feb. 16 revealed its final Office 2007 server packaging line up. While the company is introducing several brand-new servers as part of its next-generation office-productivity family, […]

Given the amount of feedback weve received from customers recently about the WMF vulnerability found in Windows, we wanted to provide some context around our response to that vulnerability. We first learned about the WMF vulnerability and exploit code on Dec. 27. We immediately mobilized our Software Security Incident Response Process and started investigating the […]