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Building the Vista Dream Machine

ExtremeTech builds a PC optimized for Windows Vista, component-by-component. Their total price: A steep $2,525 (in hardware only – not including the cost of...

SAP Announces Enterprise Search

LAS VEGAS—After a lot of media hype and speculation, SAP has finally announced its namesake Enterprise Search, an application that allows SAP users to...

Satyam, Analysts Cast Wary Eye at World Economy

NEW YORK—Just how a global economic slowdown might affect high-flying Indian outsourcer Satyam was top-of-mind at the companys Analyst Day gathering, held here Sept....

Microsoft Building Security Language for Grids

WASHINGTON—Microsoft is working on delivering a new language that will help to make grid environments more secure by providing decentralized authorization policies, among other...

Google Taps Fiber with Manhattan Move

Google's new Manhattan office sites atop one of the biggest fiberoptic facilities in North America.I've been doing research for a separate project on Google's...

Re-Release of IE Mega-Patch Caps Patch Tuesday

Microsoft issued three security bulletins covering three flaws on September 12, this month's Patch Tuesday. Notable among them is a re-release of an Internet...

SAP Promises Stable Road Map for MySAP ERP

LAS VEGAS—The big take-away for users at this years annual TechEd conference Sept. 12-15 here is the fact that SAP is "stabilizing" its next-generation...

Salaries, Satisfaction Up Among Microsoft IT Pros

Average overall salary is up for Microsoft IT professionals, according to Redmond Magazines 2006 Salary Survey, released Sept. 12. Salaries showed an increase of 3.3...

Suns Still on Fire

Buoyed by a second quarter that saw gains in server and storage revenue—including more than $100 million in sales of its "Niagara"-based systems—Sun Microsystems...

Business Objects Acquires ALG Software for $56M

Business intelligence provider Business Objects revealed Sept. 12 that it will acquire privately held Armstrong Laing—a provider of profitability management and activity-based costing solutions—for...