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IBM Data Integration Customers Parse Good Tools from Hype

Its a food-processing company.Like lots of companies in these days of consolidation, it worried about melding two merged companies collections of databases, legacy applications...

Google Snaps Up Mobile Social-Networking Startup

Building onto its mobile and social-networking technologies, Google has bought the two-person startup company Dodgeball.com. Google Inc., which confirmed the acquisition Wednesday, is providing no...

AOL Weaves Webmail into AIM Service

America Online is moving into the Web-based e-mail market on Wednesday by tying e-mail into its popular AOL Instant Messenger service. Called AIM Mail, the...

MSN Buys MessageCast for Real-Time Alerts

Microsoft has acquired a messaging startup known for a real-time alerting service that taps into instant-messaging networks and RSS feeds. Microsoft Corp.s MSN division has...

IBM Scores SOA Deals with Lawson, Firemans Fund

IBM demonstrated that it is winning major converts to its service-oriented architecture for software integration by announcing deals Tuesday with the Firemans Fund and...

Manage, Dont Mangle, Your Digital Assets

While the cash-for-old-content crowd was gathered in New York for the Digital Asset Management Symposium this week, I was sitting here in my office...

Vendors Struggle to Unite Data Integration with Metadata

"Federate," IBM says as it pitches its latest data integration installment: to wit, the folding of ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) technology acquired in...

IBM Unveils E-Mail Security Service for SMBs

IBM is looking to make it easier for smaller businesses to protect themselves against spam and viruses that make their way onto the network...

EGAs Reference Model Beckons Enterprises to Grid

The Enterprise Grid Alliance—a consortium of about 30 vendors and enterprise grid users—on Tuesday will release the industrys first Reference Model for enterprise grids. The...

Microsoft Maestro to Tune Up Business Performance

Microsoft will release to private beta this week a new, server-based business-performance-management scorecard application, code-named "Maestro," which helps users perform deep analysis by leveraging...