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Oracle Shakes Up North American Sales

Reshuffling its North American sales organization is Oracles latest bid in an ongoing campaign to file down the teeth of its infamously carnivorous sales...

Adware-for-Hire Vector Underscores IE Holes

Microsoft released a diverse and scary batch of vulnerability announcements and patches for them today. After actually reading the bulletins, I concluded that most...

MS Patch Train Drops Off Critical IE Fix

Microsoft on Tuesday released 10 advisories to cover a slew of security flaws in a range of products, including a "critical" cumulative update for...

Auto-Parts Chain Goes Modern, Stays Frugal

Larry Buresh, the CIO of the 1,138-store CSK auto-parts chain, said he knew that his current store technology was out-of-date and not especially competitive,...

Thriving Through Dis-Automation, Part II

In my last column, I was telling you about Savage Beast and the Westergren/Glaser model. The model approaches automation issues by establishing what mix of...

Siemens Hands Over Mobile Phone Business

Under the deal, Siemens will pay BenQ America Corp. $307 million and buy $61 million worth of BenQ shares. In total, Siemens said it...

Sun Squashes Critical Java Bugs

Network computing giant Sun Microsystems has rolled out patches for a pair of "highly critical" flaws in the Sun JRE (Java Runtime Environment) sandbox...

IBM Shifts Course on Lotus Notes Client

IBM is developing a next-generation Lotus Notes client that incorporates many of the rich-client features of the companys Lotus Workplace offering and may ultimately...

APC Uses Fuel Cells to Power Data Center Enclosures

American Power Conversion Corp. is bringing fuel-cell technology to its InfraStruXure data center enclosure.The West Kingston, R.I., company on Monday is introducing the Proton...

IT Laymen Misconstrue Security Procedures

When technology laymen look at enterprise information systems, they can easily misperceive a necessary tool as an instrument of criminal conduct.Two incidents in the...