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IBM Updates SMB Websphere Portal Play
IBM has updated Websphere Portal Express to version 6.0, bringing the Express version, aimed at the small and midsize business and mid-range market, up to date with the full enterprise version and adding an Eclipse-based drag-and-drop development tool for portlets. The upgrade, announced Jan 22. at IBM’s Lotusphere conference, alleviates one of the biggest pain…
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Alternative Technology Adds Gateway Message Protection from SC
Specialty distributor Alternative Technology announced a deal Jan. 2 with Secure Computing to add the vendors enterprise messaging gateway offerings to its line card. Alternative Technology has been working with Secure Computing since 2002 to provide authentication, VPN and firewall products. “Since Secure Computing has expanded their offerings across messaging security, we felt that it…
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SanDisk, Toshiba to Ship High-Performance NAND Flash Chips
NAND flash memory provider SanDisk announced Jan. 23 that it expects to ship 56-nanometer multi-level cell flash memory chips this month with Toshiba from Fab 3, the 300mm wafer fabrication facility located at Toshiba’s Yokkaichi Operations near Nagoya, Japan. By spring 2007, SanDisk intends to ship the highest available density of single-chip MLC NAND flash…
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Kana Software Enters On-Demand Market
Add one more player to the already crowded on-demand customer relationship management market. Kana Software announced Jan. 22 that its on-premises software is now available as an on-demand option as well. A 10-year-old software company with about 600 on-premises customers, Kana develops what it refers to as channel customer service solutions—e-mail, live collaboration, call center…
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Nortel-Microsoft Alliance Gets Real
Microsoft and Nortel Networks, which have been talking about their Unified Communications Alliance since it was introduced last summer, are now beginning to put products and release dates into the mix. At an event in New York Jan. 17, executives from both companies outlined a series of integrated offerings that are due this year. The…
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Government Slow to Adopt
Most federal agencies are far from meeting mandated requirements for having employees work remotely, a situation that is costing the government millions of dollars and contributing to the high turnover in the federal work force, according to a recent survey. The Jan. 22 study, conducted by the Telework Exchange—a telecommuting advocacy group—and underwritten by Tandberg…
