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While Microsoft and most customers equate Windows XP Service Pack 2 with security updates, SP2 includes refreshed versions of Microsofts Tablet PC and Media Center versions of Windows XP, too. And there are plenty of other non-security-specific features buried among the SP2 bits that have gotten far less publicity than the new firewall, pop-up blocker, […]

Microsoft is bracing for the next phase of its rollout of its Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), which kicks off Wednesday. Microsoft is set to begin pushing the service pack to Windows XP Professional users tomorrow via Windows Update/Automatic Update. A week ago, Microsoft began delivering SP2 to Windows XP Home users via its […]

On Monday, Agilent Technologies announced its acquisition of privately-held life sciences software developer Silicon Genetics. By adding Silicon Genetics genomics data analysis and management tools, Agilent is hoping to gain a foothold in life sciences informatics. In the most recent fiscal year, Agilent derived 42 percent of its revenue from test and measurement tools, 13 […]

A number of IT professionals grace the roster of Modern Healthcares annual readers poll. David Brailer, the health information technology coordinator topped the list. Brailer was appointed to the post in the Department of Health and Human Services the May. Read the story in Modern Physician.

CHALLENGE Keeping your companys data clean isnt a set-it-and-forget-it project. As long as there has been data, there have been errors. But at least in the good old days (way back in the 1980s, say), there was less data to manage. “The main source of customer data was basically the address to ship an item […]

eWEEK labs asked members of the eWEEK Corporate Partner Advisory Board whose companies are running Windows XP whether and when they are planning to deploy Windows XP Service Pack 2 and what challenges they anticipate in doing so. We also asked them what more they want to see from Microsoft Corp. About 80 percent of […]

Conceding a widening gap between his company and major large-scale relational DBMS vendors, Sybase Inc. Chairman and CEO John Chen understands the time is right to make a bold move. To that end, Chen has set in at Sybase a major refocusing of efforts that fall under an umbrella mobile strategy. Chen sat down with […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. officials are betting that the combination of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s Opteron processor and Suns Solaris operating system will enable the company to gain traction in the highly competitive x86 server space. Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., is in the early stages of its strategy—according to Gartner Inc., the company shipped 490 […]

Even though the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) bits are done and in the midst of being disseminated, theres no rest ahead for Microsofts security team. Next up on the companys security agenda: Porting the pertinent SP2 security fixes to Windows Server 2003 and certain versions of Internet Explorer; introducing new patching technologies, including […]

Ford is sending Oracles Everest software to the junkyard. After investing four years and hundreds of millions of dollars on the project, Ford says it wants to return to its proven legacy software already in place. The car giant is reportedly abandoning its $200 Million Web-based purchasing project because it cant get the software to […]

The news isnt all good for Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. A law firm on Wednesday said it is filing a class action lawsuit in Virginia against the carrier on behalf of investors who purchased the companys stock between mid-November, 2003 and the end of July 2004. The complaint alleges misrepresentation of revenue projections. According to […]

Microsofts top brass has become fond of saying that Microsofts got a lot of innovative new products in the pipeline. But what they havent admitted is that their “pipeline” has been in serious need of some Roto-Rooting for more than a year. In recent months, whenever Microsoft was running late with a product, officials blamed […]