Jeff Burt

Peoplestreet inc. has launched a beta of its LiveCard online service, a contact management tool that allows users to create and exchange self-updating electronic business cards. LiveCard users can automatically notify personal and professional contacts when their contact information—for example, street or e-mail addresses—has changed. Users update LiveCard information, and the people they have exchanged […]

New software from active Navigation Inc. promises to help businesses analyze Web content to identify the most important concepts, index the content and create links without HTML coding. Portal Maximizer 2, released last week by the San Francisco and Southampton, England, company, will eliminate unrelated results and allow users to find information more quickly. Active […]

New kid on the block Plug and play is moving into the software integration sphere. CommerceRoute Inc. this week will introduce a family of appliances the company says will enable IT managers to integrate application data among internal departments and external trading partners through graphical interfaces without coding. Transforming data The Syncx Series appliances, like […]

MicroStrategy Inc., of Vienna, Va., has announced the availability of its MicroStrategy CRM Applications. The three-product suite includes MicroStrategy Web Business Analyzer, for analyzing customer interactions at sites; Customer Analyzer, which encompasses Web Business Analyzer and analyzes all customer interactions, identifying which sales, service and marketing activities are most effective; and Marketing Automation, used to […]

Cable & Wireless PLC. and Alcatel have started building what they call the worlds most advanced IP trans-Atlantic cable, linking Long Island to Cornwall, England, and Brittany, France. Named Apollo, the cable system is slated to bring greater bandwidth to carriers and service providers at lower costs than are available today. The cable will transmit […]

San Francisco-based Actuate Corp.s new Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5 features, among other things, support for Java, LDAP and XML. The product includes “100 percent pure” Java content creation and management facilities and the ability to call Java objects, including Enterprise JavaBeans, directly. It enables tighter integration with existing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and other centralized […]

Neuvis Inc. has released a new version of its rapid application development software tailored for the Internet. NeuArchitect 3.0 is a tightly integrated set of visual modeling tools that lets developers quickly design, build and deploy complex e-business applications. NeuArchitect uses visual modeling tools and preselected menus to create business objects, user interfaces and other […]

On the way Hewlett-Packard Co. last week released a document router for small to midsize businesses. Special delivery The HP Document Router is designed to take a document from any application—desktop, midrange or client/server—and deliver it through fax machines, printers, the Web or e-mail. Help for the help desk The goal is to better manage […]

Full-service application service provider Corio Inc. has added Yahoo Inc.s corporate portal to its catalog of hosted software, replacing Corios own iView portal. Such a portal gives employees access to personalized news and other information. By offering a hosted version, said company officials in San Carlos, Calif., the portal will provide personalized views of other […]

Mapletree Networks Inc. has introduced a series of PMC cards for access and gateway systems. The MTN4000 series is based on the Norwood, Mass., companys flagship UniPorte architecture and patent-pending voice quality technology for jitter buffer management and echo cancellation. The first module in the series, the MTN4096, is the industrys highest-density Public Mobile Carrier […]

Configuresoft Inc., formerly Fundamental Software Inc., targets two high-profile enterprise desktop configuration issues in the latest release of Enterprise Configuration Manager. ECM 3.5 for Windows environments tries to help desktop administrators avoid security breaches opened by the misconfiguration of desktops and to reduce the cost and complexity associated with migrating to Windows 2000 desktops. ECM […]

Cisco Systems Inc. and Mirapoint Inc. are combining networking and messaging tools to create a unified communications product. The Cisco Mirapoint Joint UC Solution is designed to let Internet service providers implement UC services to their customers faster and more cost-effectively. It combines Ciscos uOne software platform—which lets users read and send messages (including e-mail, […]