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In what officials call the finalization of a restructuring plan put in place more than a year ago by co-founder Mike Hagan, Verticalnet Inc. announced a new president and CEO this week. Kevin McKay took over the top spot from Hagan, who was named chairman of the board at the Horsham, Pa., company. A former […]

When Microsoft unveils its plans and strategy for its MSCRM customer relationship management software offering next month, the software giant will have a lot of explaining to do. A number of Microsofts CRM “partners” say that Microsoft still has not told them of its plans to enter the CRM market. And the Redmond, Wash., companys […]

Walter Hewlett, the leading critic of Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., said on Tuesday that HP could double its profit margins and see its stock price soar up to 90 percent in a year if the company dumps its merger plan and pursues a more conservative approach to growth. With the fate […]

Historians of IT will someday remember first-generation ASPs as a niche annihilated by the meteor of reality, but now the survivors face greater terrestrial hazards such as Microsoft Corp., money, time and telecommunications companies. Companies such as Corio Inc. and Mi8 Corp. survived Round 1 of the general-purpose application service provider game, subsisting on modest […]

No matter how much technology is backing it up, a business wont last long if it cant get its product from here to there. Logistics.com Inc. this month unveiled a hosted technology designed to incorporate all aspects of managing transportation. OptiManage 7 is a real-time hosted system that integrates planning, execution, visibility and reconciliation, according […]

Time stamps are a key component of e-mail, usage tracking and system maintenance tasks, so it helps to know that your local PC clock is right. NISTime, a free download from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will check and (with your permission) correct your system clock to within a fraction of a second. […]

In todays economy, enterprises are looking for technologies that offer high performance and low cost. Samsung Electronics USA said its new 19-inch monitor addresses both issues. The SyncMaster 950b includes the Irvine, Calif., companys HighLight Zone controls, which let users select a specific area of the monitor—or the entire screen—to adjust size, brightness, contrast, color […]

Verizon Takes Rural Route Verizon wireless is paying $465 million to acquire wireless services in some rural areas, including Southeastern California, Northern Georgia, Northern Ohio and Eastern Tennessee. The purchase of a fifth Dobson Communications market, covering Gila and Pinal counties in Central and Southern Arizona, is expected to close later this month. Verizon Wireless […]

Dealing another blow to Intel Corp.s efforts to market its 64-bit chip, Dell Computer Corp. has discontinued its Itanium-based workstation due to weak demand. Dell, the worlds largest workstation vendor, confirmed that it dropped the Itanium-based Precision Workstation 730 late last month after sales fell below already-low expectations. “I dont think anyone expected sales of […]

Long out of contention for general-purpose dominance but entrenched in vertical markets, database maker Sybase Inc. will soon begin an aggressive rollout of new products that tout usability as their main distinction. A major upgrade to Sybases flagship ASE (Adapter Server Enterprise) 12.5 will debut in spring 2003, with advanced dynamic tuning and self-management functions, […]

For developers, the world changed last week. On Feb. 13 in San Francisco, Microsoft launched Visual Studio .Net, the biggest set of changes to its development strategy since Visual Basic 1.0 in 1991 introduced a new paradigm for visual programming on Windows. Those changes—the .Net run-time engine, .Net class libraries, new Java-like language C#, redesigned […]

In the world of web services, there is Java and .Net. Rational Software Corp. this month rolled out a development environment designed to bridge the gap between the two. With its tightly integrated set of tools to write code, Rational XDE Professional v2002 enables developers to code and design directly in Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio […]