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Dont you just hate it when you go and misplace 100,000 rakes? Ace Hardware was in that predicament before it discovered the joys of data warehousing. Now its got a Teradata database with MicroStrategy reporting and an Informatica data integration tool. Point-of-sale data is FTPed and routed to the warehouse, where rake-related data and other […]

DBAs with loads of technical skills are a dime a dozen in the current job market. Thats why employers are seeking candidates with something extra, whether thats experience with Oracles Real Application Clusters, SQL Server, willingness to travel abroad or just a sunny, smiley outlook on life. Read the full story at SearchOracle.

With the Democratic partys presidential candidacy run in full gear (and after those “hanging chads” in the close presidential election in 2000), when will we see electronic voting in the U.S.? Weve seen a decade-plus of technological and security advances in areas of Internet retailing, online banking, auctioning, video, audio, you name it… It would […]

Four former Microsoft Corp. executives have banded together to form a new company that is developing social-networking software and Web services that will build on top of .Net and Microsofts forthcoming Longhorn Windows operating system. The new venture, The Graw Group, officially launched in October 2003. The principals behind Graw include Jeremy Jaech and Ted […]

Hitachi Ltd. cut the losses in its hard-disk division (HDD) by about 75 percent, as Japans largest electronics company announced profitable third-quarter financials. “We had originally forecast an annual operating loss of [about $400 million] for the HDD business,” said Hitachis executive vice president Yoshiki Yagi in a statement. “But thanks to restructuring efforts, the […]

Chipmaker Broadcom Corp. this week announced its acquisition of RaidCore Inc. Broadcom spent $16.5 million on the RAID controller startup. Broadcom expects the combination of its own technology with RaidCores to lead to new server I/O chipsets; broadband processors, PCI-X and PCI-Express-based Serial ATA I and II controllers and multiplexers, and Gigabit Ethernet controllers. But […]

Microsoft Corp. Group Vice President Jeff Raikes says its high time to move beyond the industry debate over whether IT offers companies competitive advantage. Instead, he says, its time to question how companies measure the impact of IT. Raikes, along with executives from Microsoft, Accenture, Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Xerox and myriad […]

Jerome Heckenkamp pleaded guilty on January 29 to defacing the online auction house eBay and penetrating systems at the San Diego-based telecommunication equipment maker Qualcomm. Heckenkamp admitted to penetrating the systems of Exodus Communications, Juniper Networks, Lycos, and Cygnus Solutions. His pre-trial claims had angered a judge into declaring him a flight risk. Read the […]

Ensim Corp. has released two new control panels that enable service providers to offer user-level spam filtering. The products, dubbed Ensim Pro and Ensim Basic, are the latest iterations in the companys WEBppliance Pro and Basic lines, products designed to help solution providers build and manage automated hosting businesses. The new products also feature functionalities […]

There are no universal truths in the I.T. world, but one statement that comes as close as any is that the demand for I.T. professionals with bona fide enterprise-security experience is strong and growing. While the overall job market has begun to pick up, information security hires have been increasing for three or four months, […]

Symantec Corp. is planning to introduce a Clientless SSL VPN Gateway by mid-February. Client software does not have to be installed on end-user devices since users gain remote access to non-Web and Web-enabled applications through SSL technology built into Web browsers. The offering grew out of technology Symantec inherited through the acquisition of SafeWeb in […]

Several top names in mobile phones, microchips and media this week said they will work together to license an anti-piracy technology for sending movies and music to cell phones. Juha-Pekka Sipponen, the director of media player applications at Nokia, said the technology developed by the Open Mobile Alliance will be widely adopted, in contrast with […]