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Defense Department Tests Hybrid Active/Passive RFID

There is more to radio-frequency identification than the passive RFID that retailers are looking to deploy. The U.S. Department of Defense, in fact, is...

2005: The Year We Hog-Tie Data

One good bet for a 2005 prediction: Companies are going to get scared into buying something—anything—to help them get a handle on information management.We...

Oracle Takes Control of PeopleSoft

Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of...

PeopleSoft CEO Duffield Resigns

PeopleSoft Inc. founder David Duffield, who replaced fired CEO Craig Conway in October, quietly resigned effective Dec. 21, less than two weeks before Oracle...

Weathering Storms for Retail Profits

Some of the nations largest retailers pay Paul Walsh to think about existential-sounding questions like "How cold is cold?" and "How wet is wet?" No,...

Retail Tech 05: A Frighteningly Interesting Year

When you think of retail IT operations in 2005, envision an eccentric, wealthy hermit who lives in a comfortable mansion in the middle of...

Coming Soon to a Retailer Near You: Custom Commercials

Imagine the following scenario playing out at your favorite retail store. You have been running all around town trying to prepare for an important formal...

Wireline Works as Fallback When Disaster Strikes

When the tsunami hit southeast Asia this week, it was instantly a disaster of historic proportions, and nothing could have prevented that. Likewise, when...

Adobe Targets Enterprise with Acrobat 7

Adobe Systems Inc.s Acrobat 7 is expected to ship this week, and Pam Deziel, director of Acrobat product marketing, spoke with PDFzone.coms Don Fluckinger...

Novell Finally Finds the Linux Way Back to Success

I remember well when Novell NetWare was the network operating system for PC users. Over in my neck of the woods—mainframes, minis and workstations,...