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Interview: IBMs Perna Predicts Changes in What “Data” Means

Habitat for Humanity has a list of skills for potential volunteers to check off: plumbing, electrical wiring, Sheetrocking, roofing, skilled painting, semi-skilled painting, not-so-great...

Salesforce.com Keeps Recruiting Game Rolling

Salesforce.com is wasting no time in launching a campaign to lure away customers and employees from Siebel Systems in the wake of Oracles proposed...

No Web Tax Yet

Like a Java version of the sword of Damocles, the threat of a Web tax has loomed over e-Commerce players since the Web was...

Disk Blasting 101 with Linux

There are times when you really, really want to make sure that theres not one shred of readable data left on your drives. For...

Linux Gains Lossless Filesystem

An R&D affiliate of the worlds largest telephone company has achieved a stable release of a new Linux filesystem said to improve reliability over...

Microsoft to Build PDF Support into Office 12

Microsoft will build into its forthcoming Office 12 desktop suite a "save to PDF" capability, according to Office program manager Brian Jones. Jones communicated word...

The Grain of Salt to Take with Oracle Fusion Middleware

BOSTON—Isnt it nice that Oracle has stopped trying to be the center of the universe, with that whole one common data model, everything-feeds-into-Oracle stuff...

Reality Check: How Hard Are IP Phones, Really?

Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based financial services firm, uses voice-over-IP technology in most of its international offices to save on long-distance charges to other Fidelity...

EU States Propose Massive Data Retention Plan

The European Union has unveiled plans to require all telephone and Internet traffic to be logged and stored for up to a year in...

Mobile Phones: The Crucial Platform

SAN FRANCISCO—Despite all its new-fangled configurations, fancy ringtones, and creative games, the cell phone—and, by association, the greater wireless IT industry—is really about something...