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Unisys, SAS Unveil Linux Business Intelligence Support

Unisys has joined forces with the SAS Institute to make Linux enterprise-ready for business intelligence in a move that demonstrates the server maker's commitment to meeting customer interest in open-source software and services ...

Does Linux Need a Suit?

When you ask business folk if they've considered hiring an IT consultant to move their company to an open-source platform, some think of a penguin logo and sleep-deprived, pony-tail-sporting developers. Others conjure up an image of an unkempt young techie with his feet up on the desk and Cheetos crumbs on his keyboard ...

New Google Search Tool Sparks Privacy Concerns

Search engine company Google has found itself under intense scrutiny over privacy concerns just days after releasing its new desktop search tool ...

Black Duck Provides Open-Source Legal Tool

Black Duck Software has released code designed to help attorneys wade through the multifaceted intellectual property (IP) issues around open-source software ...

JBoss Introduces Workflow Engine for BPM

JBoss is throwing its open source weight around in the business process management (BPM) ring, adding a workflow engine to its middleware platform with today's launch of jBPM 2.0 ...

Micron To Build Chip-Making Plant in China

U.S.-based computer memory chip maker Micron Technology has announced plans to build its first chip manufacturing plant in China in mid-2005, according to an Associated Press report today citing a company executive in Shanghai as its source ...

IBM Announces New P5 Servers That Run Linux

IBM is putting rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems on notice with the announcement of two new p5 servers capable of running Linux and Unix and allowing users to run 254 virtual servers on each machine ...

Google Desktop Escalates Search Engine Wars

In its first major innovation since its August IPO, Google has launched a desktop search engine tool that allows users to search personal computer files at the same speed they "google" the Web. The new application throws the gauntlet directly in Microsoft's front court ...

Sun, Nvidia Design Professional Graphics Alliance

A day after visual computing company SGI announced its relationship with ATI Technologies, competitor Nvidia is boasting about its new alliance with Sun Microsystems ...

EU Expands Intel Favoritism Investigation

The European Union today expanded its investigation into Intel's alleged anticompetitive practices, filing formal charges that demand explanations from four countries that require purchased computers to contain chips that only Intel can offer ...

Gates Launches New Era with XP Media Center 2005

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 today at a gala media event at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium with high hopes of bringing his market-dominant operating system out of the office and into the living room ...

Rumors Suggest Photo Ability To Be Added to iPod

Apple just might be preparing for a coup d'etat in the digital media world, if gossip about new iPod functionality making its way across the Mac grapevine proves to be true ...

Nintendo DS Readies for Portable Gaming Competition

Nintendo is enforcing its dominance in the portable gaming world with the launch of its wireless Nintendo DS, a handheld double-screen console that will allow players to control games with touch or voice, monitor two-screen action and even compete wirelessly with others ...

Microsoft Wires XP to TV with Media Center

Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tomorrow will officially launch the latest version of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system, complete with extensions that play or record video, music and other media ...

Sun, Kodak Move Forward After $92 Million Settlement

In lieu of facing a court judgment, Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a long-running patent infringement case with Eastman Kodak. Now, observers are perusing the details to get a handle on what it means for the companies and the Internet ...

Computer Associates Launches Usage-Based Pricing

Computer Associates (CA) has introduced a usage-based pricing model for its portfolio of mainframe management software products. The overhauled pricing strategy is called Measured Workload Pricing and moves the software industry another step closer to utility computing ...

Sun, Kodak Settle Patent Lawsuit

Sun Microsystems has settled its long-fought patent infringement case with Eastman Kodak, heading off a jury decision on the penalty ...

Microsoft and the New Science of Security Flaws

Software development is a much different animal than it was 20 years ago. Today's programs rely on interprocess communication and shared memory that often result in tens of millions of lines of code, compared with just a few kilobytes of code in decades-old programs ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

Profile of a Perfect E-Commerce Customer

The perfect online customer spends thousands of dollars per year on a wide variety of merchandise and returns repeatedly to order more goods. For e-tailers, the quest for such a customer is like the search for the Holy Grail. No one leaps into the e-commerce waters as a fully formed mega shopper. Only over time do occasional Web surfers mature into first-time buyers and eventually repeat purchasers...

Cisco Order Backlog Down 30 Percent

In its annual 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) reported that its order backlog has fallen 30 percent over the past year. The networking giant said that as of September 9th, its backlog totaled about US$1.4 billion, down from about $2 billion last year ...

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