Year: 2005

  • Business Intelligence Rises to Top of CIOs’ Lists

    John Hazard

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    Vendors and VARs building and selling business intelligence solutions say their businesses are booming. BI solution providers have found themselves thriving, building solutions that make data easier to access, navigate and analyze for companies looking to capitalize on the vast amounts of data they collect to gain an edge in the market. “In the past… Read more

  • Channel Business Steady as Fourth Quarter Approaches

    Channel Business Steady as Fourth Quarter Approaches

    Pedro Pereira

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    As the fourth quarter approaches, executives at IT channel companies say demand remains steady and that they see no immediate letup. VARs, integrators and service providers report that business is anywhere from flat, compared to a year ago, to growing steadily. Companies focused on SMBs (small and midsize businesses) appear to be enjoying the most… Read more

  • Oracle Buyout of Siebel Good for SAP, Microsoft VARs

    Elliot Markowitz

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    Microsoft and SAP executives should be thanking their lucky stars. Oracle’s proposed buyout of CRM market leader Siebel, on top of its earlier purchase of PeopleSoft, will undoubtedly make it a CRM powerhouse and the leading CRM vendor in the industry. Believe it or not, Larry Ellison just did the folks at SAP and Microsoft,… Read more

  • Airgo’s Router Chipset Promises 240-Mbit Speeds

    Mark Hachman

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    Airgo Networks said Wednesday that the company is sampling its third-generation router chip at speeds that surpass a typical wired Ethernet connection. Airgo’s third MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out) chipset is sampling now to router manufacturers, who are expected to have products on the market by the fourth quarter, Airgo said. Enhancements to the core… Read more

  • Cisco’s MIMO Router — Ten Times Faster Than Rivals?

    Cisco’s MIMO Router — Ten Times Faster Than Rivals?

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Cisco Systems’ Linksys division Tuesday announced a powerful new 802.11G home/small business wireless broadband router for local area Internet networks that is expected to deliver data speeds “a magnitude” faster than current G-level routers, an industry analyst told eWEEK.com. Linksys’ newest Wireless-G (802.11g) Broadband Router uses MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) and so-called smart radio… Read more

  • Microsoft Previews Key Platform Technology

    Microsoft Previews Key Platform Technology

    Darryl K. Taft

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    LOS ANGELES—While Microsoft delivered a peek at some of its key upcoming technologies at its Professional Developers Conference, including Windows Vista and Office 12, the software giant also showed some new platform technologies aimed at enriching the overall Microsoft platform. During a keynote address at the Microsoft PDC here, Jim Allchin, group vice president of… Read more