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  • ECM Choices Depend on Content Definitions

    “Content is king.” That’s how the saying goes, but just what is the definition of content? Can content be defined as documents, Web pages, pictures and other digital media? Is content blog postings, e-mail, group discussions and chats? Is content essentially any knowledge that can be managed, stored and accessed? Trying to define content can…

  • Report: Health Care RFID Heading for a Growth Spurt

    According to recent figures released by research group Health Industry Insights, the life sciences RFID market will experience blistering growth over the next few years and be worth an estimated $15 billion by 2009. Pharmaceutical company adoption of item-level RFID tagging, which constitutes the bulk of the life sciences RFID market, will continue to drive…

  • Xerox Takes On New Challenges

    When your company name is synonymous with documents, people expect that your products will be strong when it comes to document management. But what happens when document management starts to mean a whole lot more than just controlling how documents are created, stored, changed and tracked within a company? How well will a document-centric company…

  • Ubuntu Upgrade Brings Ugliness

    Ubuntu’s star shines a little less brightly since a recently released patch knocked out its users’ graphical user interface. Affected users saw—the horror, the horror—a blue screen of death. While this screen had more useful information than the Microsoft blue screen, it still wasn’t useful to confused users. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS users who installed updates…

  • Scalent Adds Solaris Support to Virtualization Software

    Scalent Systems last November launched its data center virtualization product, dubbed Virtual Operating Environment, or V/OE, with support for Windows and Linux. With the upcoming next generation of the software, announced Aug. 27, the Palo Alto, Calif., company is offering support for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris 10 operating system on both SPARC and x86 hardware, as…

  • Symbol Appoints RFID Sales Chief to Top Channel Post

    Symbol Technologies appointed Aug. 23 Sanford “Sandy” Preizler, former head of RFID sales, to lead its channel effort as products and channels become more important to each other at the mobility components and solutions manufacturer. Symbol is capping a three-year channel turnaround, growing indirect sales from 45 percent of revenue in 2003 to more than…

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