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France Télécom went on a spending spree last year, accumulating $55 billion in debt but adding wireless and data divisions it believes will make the company a pan-European operator and a global player in business services. Currently, fixed line services account for 36 percent of the companys revenue, down from 75 percent in 1995. France […]

Vendors including Cisco Systems and CacheFlow are seizing on corporate interest in content distribution to use the new caching technology for applications such as electronic learning. Cisco is expected to announce Wednesday a new end-to-end e-learning initiative, offering its content distribution line of products to support e-learning applications to both carrier customers such as Digital […]

What do you do when you see a glaring gap between the privacy policy posted on your companys Web site and the companys actual practice? This is just one example of the many moral dilemmas that have arisen from the simple fact that data and technology have become among corporate Americas most valuable assets. Organizations […]

Offerings expanded SafeHarbor Technology Corp. has expanded its hosted offerings from Web-based customer service into data warehousing with the launch of its Data Deck service. Interactions monitored Data Deck provides SafeHarbor customers with the data from their customer interactions as well as analytic tools to improve customer service management and product planning. Customer data is […]

IBMs promise last week of a fourfold gain in disk drive capacities by 2003 raises the stakes for how the Internet will be used by both consumers and businesses. “It will fundamentally transform the entertainment industry,” predicted Chris Baldwin, a partner at Boston venture capital firm Charles River Ventures, which frequently invests in storage companies. […]

Like John Travolta and bell-bottoms, COBOL is back. The 40-year-old programming language is being dusted off after years of being regarded as hopelessly out of fashion. According to a report by Gartner Inc., applications managing about 85 percent of the worlds business data are written in COBOL. And despite the rush to object-oriented languages, 60 […]

Rational Software Corp. is injecting its advanced suite of testing and software development management products with Java support and turning on an online resource center for users. Included in the Rational Suite Version 2001A are two new products, due this week, Rational QualityArchitect RealTime and Rational Test RealTime. The first works with components developed using […]

In an industry where too many companies try to be everything to their customers, Software Spectrum is happy to return to its roots. The large, pure-play software reseller is returning to more familiar territory after taking a professional-services detour a couple of years ago. Software Spectrums thinking, at the time, seemed logical. In addition to […]

Hassan Kassem, general manager at a Palestinian information technology company, recalls attending the Comdex Israel trade show last September in Tel Aviv and meeting with other IT companies — including those based in Israel, home to numerous high-tech companies. Kassem says he was excited by discussions with Israeli business executives about cooperation and the possibility […]

As vendors laud corporate portals as the front end for next-generation applications, portals are also being eyed for what they can do for another emerging trend—Web services. Users and vendors alike said portals are ideally suited for Web services because of portal technologys ability to aggregate disparate applications and services and present them to multiple […]

Rivio Aims for Mass Market Distribution is the name of the game for Rivio, a service provider for small businesses that announced a partnership with Verizon Communications last week. The telecom giant will market Rivios services to its 3 million small-business customers. Customers will pay a monthly subscription fee based on the number of users […]

An enthusiast recently gave me Thomas Knolls PhotoShop 0.68 dated Oct. 16, 1988 (pre-Adobe). “It even runs in OS X,” he said. So I tried it. The floppy holding the 376KB program could not be read by the new G4 Power Mac that Apple had loaned eWeek Labs, but once I plugged in a USB […]