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Buying and selling oil and gas properties used to be done over handshakes and cigars. Today, an increasing number of those transactions are being done with the assistance of the Web. In the process, the Web is fostering new sources of competition and lowering costs, industry insiders say. Over the past two years, a trio […]

Plenty of companies merge to get bigger and stronger, but many businesses wind up being less than the sum of their parts. One reason: Many companies simply dont know how to integrate dozens of disparate IT systems after an acquisition takes place. Still, plenty of companies survive the integration process. Just ask DMC Stratex Networks […]

Liberating Technology Liberate Technologies says it has integrated Macromedias Flash Player into its interactive television software, which should speed development of new applications. Liberate claims its software was in use in more than 1.5 million set-top boxes at the end of May. Directory Investment Telenor, Norways largest phone company, will sell its directory business to […]

Companies hoping for a price break under Microsofts new licensing policy will be sorely disappointed, industry analysts say. Starting Oct. 1, the software maker will move many of its most popular enterprise packages, such as Office, to a new subscription system that could raise the price 33 percent to 107 percent, according to Alvin Park, […]

Hewlett-Packard, continuing to battle Sun Microsystems in the server market, launched the rp8400, a dense server that offers greater power and reliability at a price lower than the competitions, and brings new self-monitoring and recovery features into the HP midrange lineup. The rp8400 is a 2-processor to 16-processor server, powered by HPs latest 650-megahertz or […]

A forthcoming XML query language will do for XML documents what the Structured Query Language did for relational databases — and it may become the basis for many of the business-to-business interactions on the Internet, experts say. The language, called XQuery, is being developed by a technical committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), […]

Root Out the Evil For a few hours after the terrorist attacks, my e-mail box was uncharacteristically free of spam. Of course, it didnt last long. Even though I already count spammers among the lowest of the low, I was taken aback by how fast the scams directed against online users swept up in the […]

CEO, Protek www.protek.com Elevator Pitch More than 60 telecom customers use United Kingdom-based Proteks business and operational support systems software. Claim to Fame Helped to establish a major telecom R&D center in Moscow. It includes computer scientists from the Russian Space Agency and Moscows State University. Current Challenge Generating global growth amid difficult market conditions. […]

In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C., virtually every trade show in the country was cancelled for remainder of September and early October. But in a troubling sign that the impact may linger, some events scheduled for later in the year are also falling off the boards. Citing […]

SBC Communications has made a tender offer to purchase the online service Prodigy. SBC currently owns a 42 percent stake in the company. SBC is offering to buy the remaining Prodigy shares for $5.45 each, a 54 percent premium over Fridays closing price. Prodigy, established in 1984 as the very first online service, currently has […]