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Information Builders Inc., a leading vendor of business intelligence software, is implementing a two-phase rollout of its flagship product, WebFocus 5. Gerald Cohen, who founded the New York company in 1975 and remains its president and CEO, sat down at the Information Builders Summit user conference in Chicago last month to talk with eWEEK Executive […]

Im a CIO, but I might as well be an investigative reporter. Why? Running an IT operation is about much more than just getting products to work as promised. Increasingly, its about finding things out, such as whether your vendors will still be in business tomorrow. Concern about vendor reliability isnt new, but, nowadays, you […]

During his 30 years in Washington, Richard Clarke evolved from a State Department staffer into the nations top counterterrorism official. Along the way, he developed a reputation for knowing how to get things done and also became a polarizing figure in the inner circles of power inside the Beltway. He worked directly for three presidents […]

eBay Ordered to Pay $35 Million in Dispute A federal jury in Virginia ruled last week that eBays fixed-price selling model infringes on a patent and ordered the online auction company to pay $35 million. Patent law experts said the ruling may force eBay to drop Half.com, a discount e-market, and its Buy It Now […]

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People with there were a better way to do things, but for now were stuck with security patches for major operating systems and applications. In a large network, theres no way you can manage the process cost-effectively in a reasonable period of time without a patch management system designed to handle the process. eWEEK Labs […]

ZigBee Standard Looks to Bump Aside Bluetooth Yet another wireless connectivity standard will claim the spotlight next week, as the ZigBee Alliance conducts its member meeting at an open house in Berlin, and IC suppliers like Motorolas Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) demonstrate compliance with the recently passed 802.15.4 standard. ZigBee is expected to fill a […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UpdateExpert 6.0 St. Bernard Softwares UpdateExpert 6.0 is the only product of the four eWEEK Labs tested that uses an optional agent. This provides the option of additional security, such as encryption, when communicating with systems on the other side of a firewall, but it also allows for easy maintenance. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS […]

Desktop Failover Backup … Memory Makers in the xD Media Picture … Enterprise Storage Desktop Failover Backup Kano Technologies last week unveiled SureVault desktop RAID, a system creates a local mirror for data by automatically writing data simultaneously to two drives. When a disk drive fails, SureVault that software will switch operations to the secondary […]

Discuss this column in our forum. In a fit of serendipity, my last column on Microsofts Smartphone, which attributed the products slow start to supply-side issues, appeared on the same day Microsoft announced that Verizon Wireless would be offering a phone based on the platform. While this is clearly a big win in what has […]

Enterprise The Apache Software Foundation on Wednesday released an updated version of its market-leading Web server software, primarily to patch previously undisclosed security holes. The new version of the software patches several serious vulnerabilities, including one that could allow vandals to crash a server by sending malicious commands to the component Apache uses to execute […]

In the latest storage industry move to support new federal technology regulations, Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin reselling Legato Systems Inc.s e-mail archiving and virtualization software next week, HP officials said Friday. HP will sell new bundles for all of its storage hardware, called HP/Legato Email Archiving and Management Service and HP/Legato Data Archiving Service, said […]