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Business Objects Plans to Acquire Infommersion

Business Objects announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire Infommersion Inc., a privately held company that develops information visualization and presentation software. Business Objects S.A.,...

MS Office: Bills PDF Widget

Like the native Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats, PDF is not an open standard. Yet all of these formats are de facto standards...

GoogleOffice: A Microsoft Office Killer?

To hear Sun, Google and the Anything but Microsoft campers tell it, Microsoft Office will be officially toast any day now. I say theyre wrong....

.Mac Tools Dont Lead

At A GlanceApple has updated its .Mac suite of online tools, giving subscribers more for their $99.95 yearly fee. Theyll now get more storage...

Sun, Google to Partner on Software

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Sun Microsystems and Google on Tuesday announced a partnership that will see the two Silicon Valley firms distribute and promote each others...

Liautaud: Bringing Business Objects to the Next Level

A relatively stable company, Business Objects S.A. has had a shake-up or two recently at its top levels. The companys founder, chairman and former...

EMA Makes Data Safe and Sound

Jonathan Rothman knows the value of information, and, as an executive in the emergency services field, he also places top priority on issues of...

SpreadFirefox.com Shut Down After Security Breach

The Mozilla Foundation has temporarily pulled the plug on its SpreadFirefox.com marketing site after a hacker break-in put user accounts at risk. The non-profit Foundation,...

IBM Announces —Again— PC Storage Software Deal

Over the next few weeks, IBM is expected to unveil a bundling, co-development and co-marketing deal around the resale of Symantecs storage and cluster...

Xiotech Pitches Scaled-Down SAN for SMBs

Xiotech has introduced a scaled-down version of its Magnitude 3D 3000s SAN intended for small and midsize organizations. Intended as an entry-level storage cluster...