Sean Gallagher

Hewlett-Packard announced on Dec. 10 that it had signed an agreement to acquire NUR Macroprinters, a wide-format inkjet printer company based in Israel. The acquisition, while relatively small at $117.5 million, is just the latest in a series of moves by HP to move more heavily into large-format commercial printing. NUR’s products include ultraviolet-curable and […]

NEW YORK—Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a pilot program to provide emergency information to citizens via e-mail, text messages and phone alerts today. The initiative, called Notify NYC, “will give New Yorkers in the pilot communities’ access to information while serving as a proving ground for different technologies that could one day benefit the entire City,” […]

RESTON, Virginia—There was bipartisan agreement on display Thursday about the impact of Web 2.0 technology on politics. Joe Trippi, senior advisor to the John Edwards presidential campaign, and Cyrus Krohn, the director of the eCampaign division of the Republican National Committee, both spoke of how social networking has changed the face of politics on a […]

Corvil has rolled out the latest version of its CorvilNet monitoring and bandwidth provisioning analysis appliance, and the London Stock Exchange has selected the product to monitor quality of service on its IP-based electronic trading network. CorvilNet 4.0, announced Oct. 22, passively monitors traffic across networks in segments below 1 microsecond in length and correlates […]

Intuit has officially launched its first-ever solution provider program for its QuickBooks Enterprise financial software. Developed in concert with 54 solution providers over the past 16 months, the program is focused on solution providers who work with midmarket customers. The resulting program already includes more than 100 certified partners–some of whom were recruited from the […]

With industry giants like SAP pushing deeper into the enterprise resource planning midmarket, Vormittag Associates Inc. has moved to broaden its reach with smaller customers by partnering with Berbee Information Networks. The deal, inked on July 24, could potentially lead to VAIs S2K software being distributed through CDWs catalog, and as a hosted application for […]

Dells acquisition of managed services technology provider SilverBack Technologies gives the company another major piece of infrastructure to build its business services offerings. It could also become a major part of Dells promised channel strategy—or put the company even more in conflict with the channel. SilverBacks technology allows service providers to remotely monitor, manage and […]

Back in June, at Sun Microsystems Inc.s JavaOne conference, Sun CEO Scott McNealy spent the better half of his keynote address talking about Suns foray into solving the problems of educators everywhere—by taking the open-source paradigm into the world of teaching materials. “Instead of No Child Left Behind,” said McNealy, “we [want] No Child Held […]

MADISON, Wis.—While there have been huge steps forward in RFID technology over the past few years, figuring out how to get it to work in real-world settings has been something of a dark art. Now, the University of Wisconsin has opened a research facility that can help companies eliminate some of the guesswork out of […]

A new version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is being released for beta in advance testing this week, the second beta release of the free software available for computer users. OpenOffice.org is an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. Based on code donated by Sun Microsystems when it acquired Star Division in 1999, the OpenOffice.org suite is developed […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In a keynote that focused on the successes of the Java community and on ways that the community can benefit society, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy broke the news of Suns SeeBeyond acquisition to attendees of the JavaOne conference here with a joke. “I saw that the [session on the] JBI service-oriented architecture was […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems had plenty of gifts for its faithful partners and software development community, as the company celebrated the tenth anniversary of Java. And there was more being offered than t-shirts and a fake birthday cake for Duke, the Java mascot. Sun Microsystems Inc.s Chief Operating Officer and President Jonathan Schwartz announced at Suns […]