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Siebel Systems Inc.s 2000 annual report contains some pretty amazing facts and figures. The company reported consolidated revenue of almost $1.8 billion, a 121 percent increase over 1999 revenue. Customers report an average return on investment in less than 10 months. Ninety-six percent of these customers find Siebels solutions consistent with their long-term IT strategy, […]

Media titans are finally embracing the Internet as a delivery medium to the masses. Five major movie studios — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Vivendi Universal and Warner Bros. — last week announced a joint venture to stream new and old movies to broadband users on a video-on-demand basis. In a separate announcement, […]

AOL Time Warner and Lotus Development are furthering tests to link their instant messaging systems, but neither company is willing to tip its hand about how the services could be leveraged into moneymakers for future corporate use. The two companies have agreed to an IM interoperability trial between AOLs Instant Messenger service and Lotus Sametime. […]

The bundling controversy over Windows XP has been blown “way out of proportion” by a few prominent companies that dont like Microsoft adding to its operating system technologies that compete with their applications, the company says. It may seem like cold consolation to Microsoft competitors, but Greg Sullivan, lead product manager for Windows XP, said […]

Stung by pressure from Advanced Micro Devices, PC chip market leader Intel will sharply cut prices this month on its newest processor to regain momentum for the holiday shopping season — however thin its margins become. At its developers conference in San Jose next week, Intel will announce its more powerful 2-gigahertz Pentium 4 processor […]

The government has spawned a complex infrastructure protection bureaucracy National Coordinator for Security Protection and Counterterrorism — National Security Council Responsible for the governments critical infrastructure protection efforts, as well as foreign terror threats of mass destruction; position currently held by Richard Clarke Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office — Department of Commerce Charged with assisting the […]

Trying to keep pace with the evolving service provider industry, IBM this week will announce the expansion of its ASP Prime project into the wider-ranging XSP Prime program. The ASP Prime program, which began in the spring last year and requires that participants later buy IBM products, teams application service providers and ISVs with IBM […]

Unless youve been hiding under a rock for the past few weeks, youve probably heard all you ever wanted to know about the so-called “Code Red” crisis thats been clogging networks worldwide since its discovery on July 19. Indeed, “Code Red” has joined that tiny fraction of a percent of all network security issues that […]

Insurance broker J.S. Wurzler Underwriting Managers has started charging up to 15 percent more in premiums to clients that use Microsofts Internet Information Server software, which the Code Red worm feasted on. In light of the $2 billion in damage caused by Code Red, founder and CEO John Wurzlers decision just before the virus hit […]

While the government lumbers along with a muddled potpourri of public and semipublic centers and councils to fight cybercrime, a handful of private organizations offer an alternative. IDefense, in Fairfax, Va., was launched in 1998 — the year the White House revamped the federal infrastructure protection system. “We exist because of the need for a […]