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Hewlett-Packard Co.s bid to buy of Compaq Computer Corp. received its most significant endorsement to date today as an influential investment group urged its more than 700 corporate clients to support the $22 billion deal. The recommendation of the Institutional Shareholder Service marks a dramatic victory for HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, who has […]

Business Management: Analytics & Reporting Winner Informatica Corp. Informatica Applications 5 Finalists Adaytum Inc. e.Planning 2.0 MicroStrategy Inc. MicroStrategy 7.1.3 Its been said that whats measured matters, so it must follow that the tools that make the measurements are among any IT builders most important technology choices. The Analytics & Reporting category drew a generally […]

When Bill Gates in January wrote his now-famous memo exhorting Microsoft Corp.s employees to make security their top priority, Craig Mundie saw it as a turning point in the companys history. As chief technology officer of the Redmond, Wash., software maker, Mundie bears much of the responsibility for the security and reliability of Microsofts products […]

Tackling some of the complexities of converged networking, Siemens Enterprise Networks LLC, a subsidiary of Siemens AG, this month will release management software designed to simplify fault management and call accounting. The HiPath MetaManagement Software suite allows an administrator to manage an entire distributed network from a single, Web-based interface. Its suited for a small […]

Eighteen months after taking the helm of Lucent Technologies Inc. spinoff Avaya Inc., CEO Donald Peterson is struggling with the same revenue problems that are plaguing most telecommunications vendors. But rather than pulling back on the original vision for the enterprise networking company, Peterson is broadening the scope of product lines to cover a wider […]

Plug and play Audio conferencing has become a key part of doing business. In May, Boston-based Sonexis Inc. will release a plug-and-play audio conferencing appliance called AudioCollaborator, designed to be an in-house alternative to popular audio conferencing services. PSTN, IP models Sitting behind an enterprises firewall, AudioCollaborator plugs into existing PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) […]

People working on the same project from different locations need to be able to exchange information. Virtual Ink Corp., of Boston, is expected to ship Mimio Xi, a digital whiteboard solution, later this month. The collaboration product allows users to capture, edit and share whiteboard information electronically. The follow-on to Mimeo boasts a new form […]

Giving businesses a way to consolidate WAN load balancing and WAN backup with traffic management and security applications on one platform, Amplify.net Inc. is trial testing with customers a new gateway called iSurfJanus-RX. The Fremont, Calif., company champions the gateway as a means of cost-effectively increasing bandwidth and reliability. Enterprises can aggregate up to three […]

Trigo Technologies Inc. has enhanced its flagship software suite to help manufacturers and distributors author and manage product information across the enterprise. Trigo Enterprise 3.0, which the Brisbane, Calif., company began shipping last week, provides a repository from which to distribute up-to-date information on millions of products to multiple channels. To enable this, Version 3.0 […]

Intel Corp. last week put down speculation that the chip maker might abandon its 64-bit Itanium design. Questions about its commitment to the Itanium arose following reports last month that the company was developing an alternative 64-bit chip based on the Pentium architecture. The stories speculated that the alternative was being developed in case Itanium, […]

Gateway Eyes Profitable 2003 Few computer makers have been hit as hard as Gateway by the economic downturn and the PC price war. But the company said that while it expects another tough year in 2002—with a pre-tax loss of up to $250 million on revenues around $5 billion—it will regain profitability next year. In […]

Patching system vulnerabilities can be a time-consuming job for most IT departments. Citadel Security Software Inc. has rolled out software designed to automate the patching process. Hercules can automatically secure about 90 percent of all known server and workstation vulnerabilities, the Dallas-based company said. The product automates the identification and deployment of patches and fixes […]