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Xerox Corp. is heading into autumn after a busy summer. In addition to launching new hardware and software and tweaking its brand strategy (it bid farewell to the decade-old “The Document Company” tag line last week), Xerox also reported strong second-quarter results that prompted it to raise full-year earnings expectations from 67 to 72 cents […]

BEA Systems Inc.s new executive vice president of products, Wai Wong, claims BEA is not down and certainly not out despite losing a host of executive and technical talent. In an interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft, Wong explained that his goal is to help the San Jose, Calif.-based company stay the course […]

Nasdaqs Data Factory Project is designed to give traders, issuers and consumers more data than they receive today. It will be powered by HyperFeeds ticker-plant technology in order to receive, process and distribute data from any source, as well as mixing in proprietary data. The three-year, multi-million dollar deal gives Nasdaq the right to use […]

The market for wide area file services strategy is growing, and Tacit wants to grow with it. To accomplish this, Tacit has brought onboard Charles Foley, of InfiniCon Systems, to lead the way. Read the full story at internetnews.com.

It is not just the product teams at Microsoft Corp. that are focusing heavily on search. The Microsoft Research unit is doing so, as well. To wit, Microsoft Research recently reorganized its Redmond, Wash., labs by creating four new research teams. A text mining, search and navigation team is prominent among the newly minted groups. […]

Fear has been mounting in the open-source community that Microsoft could start suing users at any time for alleged patent violations. That possibility became even more worrisome to some with a new disclosure by Sun Microsystems this week regarding terms of its sweeping legal settlement with Microsoft, hammered out earlier this year. According to the […]

When JP Morgan and IBM forged their outsourcing contract in 2002, IBM was to take over the global computing operations in numerous key areas including retail banking, trading and securities processing. The original goal was allowing JP Morgan to cut its own spending on technology. J.P. Morgan, the No. 2 U.S. bank, said following its […]

Maxtor Corp. on Monday announced that it had begun shipping its Maxtor SATA Ultra16 hard drive kits. The 250GB and 300GB kits are available from most retailers for $239.95 and $279.95, respectively. Parallel ATA Ultra16 hard drive kits will be available in the fourth quarter, according to the company. The drives themselves contain a 16MB […]

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a Los Angeles hospital, shut down its computerized physician order entry system in early 2003 after only a few months of use. Hospital staff forced the abandonment of the CPOE system, complaining that it was slow and inefficient. Currently, the hospital is conducting a review of the reasons behind this initial failure. […]

Users of Contra Costa County Health Services once had to employ as many as 10 passwords to access patient information. But recently the public health organization instituted a more comprehensive access plan. All its systems were converted to a combination biometric and single sign-on technology. Read the full story at Health Data Management

At El Camino Hospital in Californias Silicon Valley, Wi-Fi phones send information over the Internet instead of phone lines. The phones look and feel like walkie-talkies and can send messages to several staffers at once, or try several numbers until someone answers. Wi-Fi calls cost less and connect faster than cell phones, but maintaning Wi-Fi […]

When computers crash during a busy at the hospital, a doctor reminisces on lost opportunities for communicating with patients and recalls the usual hiccups caused by information systems that dont communicate with each other. She wonders how much smarter, more-connected computers might help. Read the full story from the New York Times