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E-Commerce Drains Billions of Letters from Post Office

The traditionally long lines in post offices during the holiday season are noticeably shorter this year, and figures released Wednesday show why. About 1.1 billion...

IBM Customers Wary of Change in Wake of Lenovo Deal

For IBM and Lenovo Group Ltd., their deal to merge their PC businesses will result in some big changes for both companies, and officials...

Mozilla Launching Second Act with E-Mail Client

The Mozilla Foundation will release late on Monday a full version of its open-source answer to the e-mail client. With the launch of the Thunderbird...

Siebel Courts SMBs with Partner Program

Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday launched a new plan of attack to go after the SMB (small to midsized business) space that has proved...

Users Applaud Idea of Oracle BI as Center of the Universe

SAN FRANCISCO—Know more, spend less.The message was, characteristically, all-Oracle: Consolidate, ditch the special-purpose data warehouses, and move to a version of Oracle Corp.s Database...

Security Honey Pots May Snare Private Details

Though some legal issues still surround "honey pots," their use within the security industry is fairly common and is considered a critical weapon in...

HP Focuses on Software, Storage

BOSTON—Hewlett-Packard Co. officials have completed the reorganization of the company, have their product portfolios in place and have developed strong roadmaps for those products....

SAP Readies Manufacturing Enhancements

For better communications between the shop floor, other company divisions and trading partners, SAP AG is working on a number of manufacturing-oriented enhancements to...

Group Enlists Honey Pots to Catch IM Threats

IMlogic Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to use so-called honey pots, or vulnerable machines, to track malicious virus activity on instant messaging and peer-to-peer...

Young Consumers Pose Tech Challenges for Retailers

Running the technology operations for a billion-dollar retail clothing chain is difficult enough during the holidays, let alone if most of your customers are...