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Oracle Confirms Siebel OnDemand Shift, New PeopleSoft Suite

On the heels of second-quarter earnings announcement that showed a significant increase in application sales, Oracle made two additional applications-related announcements this week that...

Agile to Acquire Prodika for Vertical Support

PLM software developer Agile Software announced June 28 its entrance into the process manufacturing sector with the acquisition of Prodika. The terms of the deal...

Professor: Disrupt or Be Disrupted

Disruption in business is the focus of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who has carried out groundbreaking research into how small, underestimated companies...

Tesco RFID Trial Hits Snag

Limitations with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology have delayed a nationwide rollout at supermarket giant Tesco by several years. Tesco had planned to install...

Solaris 10 to Get Xen Support by Mid-2007

Sun Microsystems plans to deliver support for the Xen virtualization technology in Solaris 10 by the middle of 2007. Sun is preparing to release to...

New Federal Data-Protection Guidelines Unveiled

Following a series of seemingly nonstop theft-of-data problems from quite a few government agencies recently (Veterans Affairs, IRS, Agriculture, Federal Trade Commission and the...

Reflections on a Flat World

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Study: Voluntary Reporting Can Prevent Medical Errors

Allowing clinicians to report errors voluntarily likely helps prevent future errors, according to a study published recently by researchers at Johns Hopkins Childrens Center,...

Symantec Launches Attack Preparation Service

Security applications maker Symantec introduced a new package aimed at helping companies prepare for emerging attacks such as so-called zero day exploits on June...

IBM Dominates List of Top 500 Supercomputers

IBM continues to dominate the list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, with four of the top 10 computers on the list and...