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Return on RFID Tagged as Elusive

While Oracle Corp. on Tuesday rolled out technology geared toward helping companies cope with the oceans of data that Oracle hopes will soon flow...

Veterans Affairs gets IT House in Order

Spanning almost two decades, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pumped almost half a billion dollars into a pair of nearly still-born efforts:...

Sybase Earnings to Fall Short

Database maker Sybase on Friday warned that its profits for the current quarter will fall short of expectations due to the delay of several...

Praying for a Job

As the unemployment benefits run out for Mark Kishbaugh, the unemployed, 49-year-old Oracle DBA has joined the Northwest Bible Church jobs ministry to get...

Oracle Wraps Up Case to E.U.

European antitrust regulators on Thursday wrapped up two days of inquiry into Oracles proposed takeover of PeopleSoft. The European Commission, which has until May...

Perna Points DB2 Toward the Future

Janet Perna has seen IBMs data management business evolve from being a relatively small unit heavily weighted toward a DB2 relational database for the...

International Sequencing Consortium Creates Online Resource

A free, online resource for scientists and the public to get the latest information on projects sequencing various animal, plant and other eukaryotic genomes...

NIH and FDA Launch Human Gene Therapy Database

The National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration announced an online database to track adverse events in gene transfer research trials.Dubbed...

RAM Limitations Strain Bio-IT

By the end of the three-year project to map the mouse brain about one petabyte of data will have been generated, pushing scientists up...

IBM, Affymetrix Target Diagnostics

Computing industry giant IBM and gene-chip maker Affymetrix have announced a partnership to supply clinical genomics capabilities to medical research facilities and drug makers.Affymetrix...