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Appro to Open Compute on Demand Center

Appro International next quarter will open an on-demand supercomputing service aimed at the oil and gas industry. The Compute on Demand Center, in Houston,...

AMD Passes Intel in Retail Desktop Market

Advanced Micro Devices has been moving up in the retail world, a new report shows. But despite gaining share in desktops, AMD continues to...

CA Dumps Ingres Database Biz

Computer Associates International Inc.s efforts to reshape itself in the eyes of customers and stockholders has as much to do with shedding products from...

Speculation Swirls over Maffeis Exit from Oracle

Greg Maffeis departure earlier this month as Oracle Corp.s chief financial officer and co-president has led to much speculation as to why the ex-Microsoft...

Microsoft Commits to Agility

Even as Microsoft Corp. launched Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 here last week—the first major releases for the products in...

Microsoft Memos Raise Questions

Memos made public last week detailing Microsoft Corp. executives thoughts on how the company must change its method of building software are raising more...

Concord Camera Gets Picture-Perfect CMS

Back in the fall of 2004, even before Michelle Beauchamp had come on board as director of marketing communications at Concord Camera Corp., in...

Mobile System Pays Off for Enterprise

Jet-setting road warriors at The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. subsidiary Russell Investment Group often found themselves moving from taxi to airplane to taxi—wasting...

ILECs Praise FCC Nominations

President Bush nominated a Tennessee utility regulator to the Federal Communications Commission and reappointed FCC Commissioner Michael Copps to a second term at the...

Cerf, Kahn Receive Medal of Freedom

Vinton Cerf last week joined an eclectic group that includes such luminaries as Nelson Mandela, Andy Griffith, Hank Aaron, David Packard and Gordon Moore...