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/zimages/3/102204.jpg In launching the new organizational structure at Computer Associates International Inc., CEO John Swainson is making his biggest mark yet on CA, as he tries to put its troubled past behind the software behemoth. With five months at the helm, Swainson has moved swiftly to bring growth and focus back to CA. He detailed […]

/zimages/2/102236.jpgIts been nearly a year since longtime IBM executive Michael Lawrie replaced founder Tom Siebel as CEO at Siebel Systems Inc. In that time, Lawrie has increased Siebels focus on small and midsize businesses, made customer success a bigger priority, and sought to change the top-down culture at the company. So far, so good: Siebel […]

Online consumers are using Internet pharmacies to take control of their own medication and to sometimes cut the physicians out of the process. More than 17 million Americans visited Internet pharmacies last quarter, up 14 percent from the same period last year, according to Internet audience measurement service comScore Networks. Almost two-thirds of these visited […]

Visa has dealt with problems online merchants were having with its Verified by Visa authentication program, according to Mike Yakel, vice president for risk product development. E-retailers had complained the program would create pop-up windows that would drive customers away. Visa has tried to make the information given to consumers more understandable. ”The cardholders need […]

Retalix has made a merger agreement with TCI Solutions, a company that provides strategic pricing, merchandising and inventory management technology for grocery stores. TCI’s technology allows grocery stores to automate complex pricing and streamline inventory. Retalix expects the merger to be complete during the second quarter of 2005. Read the entire Destination CRM story here.

Will Adobes DNG (Digital Negative ) displace the current multitude of raw camera formats? I dont really have an opinion, but I can provide some explanatory material to inform the debate. In a previous column, I said that exposure is easy in digital photography. True, but only true because of the miracle of “Raw.” Raw […]

Selected U.S. customers of Quark Inc. received an unexpected piece of mail at the beginning of March: a postcard from the Denver-based company that directly compared QuarkXPress 6.5 with Adobes InDesign—the first time in memory that Quark has deigned to publicly attack its main competitor. This aggressive approach isnt what Quarks customers are used to, […]

Microsoft is expected to announce this week—most likely on Thursday morning—that it has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). SP1, the server counterpart to Windows XP Service Pack 2, is primarily a security update. But, as was the case with XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 also will include some brand-new […]

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive ones self. What we wish for, we readily believe.” —Demosthenes Too many executives with control over system implementation projects practice MBWT (Management by Wishful Thinking), blundering into predictable box canyons, and incinerating budgets and energy that could have been spent wisely elsewhere. The wishful thinkers share amazement at […]

Top Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley revealed Wednesday that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 has finally been released to manufacturing. Thats the good news. The bad news is that now youll get to start installing Server 2003 SP1. Ive been looking forward to this patch for a long time. Yes, Server 2003 was a […]

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Studies of how IT is used in medicine have consistently shown that the people most resistant to information technology are the ones who are most central to making it effective: doctors. Some doctors fulfill the stereotype of the distracted clinician who is forbidden to use the office equipment by administrative staffers who are tired of […]