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IBM to Buy Wireless Software Company
IBM announced Nov. 28 that it will buy privately-held software maker Vallent in a bid to expand IBM’s ability to help communications service providers manage their networks. IBM did not disclose financial terms of the deal, which it said it expects to close by the end of the first quarter of 2007. “We are definitely…
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Data Thieves Are One Big MasterCard Commercial
Traditional credit card companies are fighting for their lives against a plethora of new alternatives, ranging from debit cards, non-credit-card contactless payment, cell phones, eCheck, PayPal and Bill Me Later, not to mention newfangled hybrids that merge loyalty and CRM, gift cards, incentive coupons and POS cards, such as a pilot at the Subway chain.…
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Is Your IT Strategy Wanting?
You’d think that the deep-dyed techies of eWeek Labs would have been pleased by November’s mainstream media coverage of popularly priced desktop supercomputing. Unfortunately, the supercomputer in question was Sony’s PlayStation 3, and that coverage had more to do with stalled waiting lines outside big-box stores than with stalled instruction pipelines in the Sony game…
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Salesforce Targets Integration
A battle brewing in the business applications market is boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. Salesforce.com, an on-demand vendor in San Francisco that racked up $500 million in revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2007, is looking to better delineate its integration strategy by announcing Nov. 27 ApexConnect, a family of…
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Microsoft-Novell Deal Causes Strife
The controversial deal between Microsoft and Novell is continuing to roil the open-source waters. Just weeks after its patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting back at statements by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. At the same time, officials with the JBoss division of top Linux…
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SAAS: More, Not Less, Channel
When Bluewolf Group unwrapped an on-demand Salesforce.com implementation at the New York Times Co. earlier this year, it was already weeks ahead of the schedule an on-premises solution would have required. But the real work was just beginning. Bluewolf immediately plugged in 700 of the Times’ sales representatives to the Salesforce Enterprise Edition Customer Relationship…
