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IBM Acquires Specialized Search Firm iPhrase

IBM said Tuesday it has acquired the assets of iPhrase Systems Inc., a privately held search technology company based in Bedford, Mass., and will...

Novell Changes Leadership

Novell announced on Tuesday that the previous day its board of directors had promoted Ron Hovsepian, executive VP and president of global field operations,...

Microsoft Live Era Meets Dead Air

SAN FRANCISCO—About every five years, Microsoft holds an event to introduce a "big bet" that Bill Gates is making in hopes of changing computing...

Skeptical IT Execs Poke at the Tender Underbelly of Open Source

NEWTON, MASS.—They lined up onstage to float their 1-minute elevator pitches, these sellers of open-source dreams: XenSource Inc. with virtualization software, ActiveGrid with its...

Microsoft Serves Up Internet Services Live

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a renewed focus on services delivered over the Internet, as it tries to fend off challenges from Google and...

Black Duck Targets Small Businesses with Software Update

Black Duck Software Inc. Tuesday announced a new release of its protexIP/development system. Black Duck protexIP/development Version 3.0 features enhanced capabilities for analyzing proprietary, open...

SAP Challenges Oracles Air Force Contract

SAP Public Services Inc., a division of SAP, on Monday filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Government Accountability Office regarding the ECSS contract. SAP,...

NetSuite Partners With Telephone App Vendor

NetSuite Inc., which develops hosted enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software, is partnering with a little-known company for an interesting capability. The San...

Sprint Mixes In Mobile Download Service

Sprint Nextel Corp. launched the United States first mobile audio download service on Monday, introducing Music Store, which allows the companys subscribers to buy...

AOLs AIMPro Revamps Business IM

Hoping to catch a ride on the software-as-a-service wave, America Online Inc. is working to integrate its popular instant messaging client with WebEx Communications...