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Patent Lawsuits Crowd Microsoft’s Horizon
While Microsoft Corp. has reached a $440 million settlement with InterTrust Technologies Corp. around digital rights management patents, it is far from clearing the slate of patent-infringement claims against it. Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, remains a major patent target. It is battling between 30 and 35 ongoing patent cases that cover everything from…
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Channel Stocks Brace for Earnings
Wall Street bulls are optimistic that solutions providers and technology companies will deliver strong quarterly results this week. Among the 30 companies in our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock index, at least three– CDW Corp. (CDWC), IBM Corp. (IBM) and Unisys Corp. (UIS)–are slated to announce results this week. Non-index members such as Advanced Micro…
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Network Associates to Roll Out Sniffers for SMB
Network Associates Inc. on Monday will expand its Netasyst line of network management tools aimed at small and midsize businesses. The latest Netasyst offerings include a pair of new distributed network analysis tools that obviate the need for technicians to take a portable protocol analyzer to the network segment users want to analyze. The client/server-based…
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Channel Zone News Roundup–Week of April 5
Friday, April 9 Astoria Harnesses Internet To Automate Content Review and Updates SAN MATEO, CA — Astoria Software, a document management software developer, has released Astoria 4.1, an application for enterprises seeking to automate the authoring, review and publishing processes of complex documents. The product extends enterprise content collaboration beyond core technical writers to content…
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Report Foresees Declining IBM E-Mail Penetration
The Radicati Group Inc. on Thursday issued a report indicating that IBM’s e-mail product strategywith its converging Notes/Domino and Workplace roadmapswill lead to the company losing share in the corporate e-mail market over the next four years. The report says that Lotus Domino now has an installed base of 85.9 million mailboxes, representing 24 percent…
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Health-Care Vendors, Providers Call for More HIPAA Help
A coalition of health-care vendors and providers is urging the government to make sure that health-care payments are not disrupted or delayed as the industry moves to comply with new national standards for electronic health-care records, which are required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),…