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Increasingly complex data is making writing SQL a nightmare for some IT staff, but a new tool from Sybase Inc. promises to make the task easier for its Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 database. The Emeryville, Calif., company has partnered with a Hong Kong company for a software tool that analyzes SQL code as its written. […]

LAS VEGAS–NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America Inc., one of the worlds largest LCD manufacturers, introduced two new 15-inch flat-panel displays at Comdex here this week that feature a new space-saving design. Targeted at both commercial and consumer users, the LCD1550X and LCD1550M, priced at $549 and $499, respectively, are built with the thinnest frames yet […]

One month after ousting its chief executive, Transmeta Inc., a designer of low-power microprocessors, set up shop at a Las Vegas hotel during Comdex this week to pitch its newest processor and offered assurances about the companys future. Instead of appearing on the showroom floor at Comdex, the Silicon Valley startup instead displayed its wares […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. filed an internally circulated memo with the S.E.C. today about its pending merger with Compaq Computer Corp. that outlines a bigger transition team, specifically names the competition, talks about a “single face to customer”, and details the duties of Mike Winkler, a highly-regarded Compaq executive who will run operations in the new company […]

So just how do we go about finding and ranking the top e-business innovators for the eWeek FastTrack 500? Basically, we look at the two things that all e-businesses have in common: the Web sites through which they connect with customers, suppliers and partners and the internal IT resources they rely on to keep e-business […]

Jaws dropped when, earlier this year, a division of health care giant Kaiser Permanente submitted a winning $4.05 million bid to buy the software, automated conveyers and Oakland, Calif., warehouse once used by failed dot-com Webvan Group Inc. to speed groceries to online buyers. Huge, ponderous Kaiser jumping into the discredited business-to-consumer e-commerce space? Well, […]

As the economy continues to languish and the information technology sector in particular remains in hibernation, many pundits are engaging in revisionism, questioning the productivity boost from late-90s investments in IT. A recent report by McKinsey, “U.S. Productivity Growth—1995-2000,” for example, calls the relationship between IT and productivity gains “murky” because, the report contends, productivity […]

Hewlett-Packards and Compaqs boards are largely made up of present or past chief executives. As a result, their backing of the HP-Compaq merger comes from a perspective that values share price, strategic positioning and share price. Theres nothing unusual about this, which is what makes the objections to the merger from the Hewlett and the […]

Support for Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., as well as for HPs chairman and CEO, Carly Fiorina, appears to be wavering after heirs of the companys founders went public last week with their opposition to the deal. Fiorina has staked her career on the $20 billion merger with Compaq that would create […]

Site Helping Small Firms In an effort to provide small companies with a jump-start in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Commerce Department, IT vendors and business executives have unveiled a Web site with links to IT service and equipment suppliers. NYITAssist.com is part of the ReStart Central initiative to help businesses hurt […]