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New E-Commerce Package Automatically Removes Products
Mercado Software is set to introduce software that will—without human intervention—add and remove products based on inventory and item profit margins. The company plans to launch the new software package, called Mercado 4, the week of Jan. 15. While various vendors have offered integration between Web analytics and e-commerce platforms, Mercado’s new offering is significant…
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5 Questions for New Teradata CEO Michael Koehler
NCR announced plans this week to spin off its Teradata data-warehousing subsidiary as an independent company. NCR, which is best known as a provider of ATMs and retail checkout machines, had sales of $4.5 billion in 2005, excluding Teradata. The Teradata division, one of the biggest players in the data warehousing and business intelligence market,…
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Exploit Released for Critical PC Hijack Flaw
A fully working exploit for a worm hole fixed by Microsoft two days ago has been put into limited release, prompting new “patch now” warnings from computer security experts. The exploit, which allows PC takeover attacks on Windows XP SP2, has been published to Immunity’s partners program, which offers up-to-the minute information on new vulnerabilities…
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The Publishers Vs. Google
The best evidence of the great online-offline divide can be traced to the earliest days of the Web. As the Web was just creeping into prominence, if you had asked any hotshot market observer who would likely run the biggest online bookstore in the new medium, the answer would have been Barnes & Noble or…
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Sun Promotes Throwing the ‘Kitchen Sink’ at Java
Sun Microsystems is encouraging developers to throw everything including the kitchen sink into evolving the Java language. While Sun has announced its plans to open-source its Java technology, the company plans to maintain the sanctity of the standard language while enabling developers to experiment on bringing new features to Java, said Peter von der Ahe,…
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The Reshaping of the CIO in the Era of SarbOx
Gartner analyst French Caldwell has been covering governance, compliance and risk management since 2002. In a recent conversation with Baseline, he spoke about the regulatory developments affecting information-technology executives. Those include Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, which requires public companies to have certain internal controls in place, and indications that the Securities and Exchange Commission and…
