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DOJ Nixes Oracle’s PeopleSoft Takeover Bid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will seek to block Oracle Corp.’s $9.4 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Corp. Assistant Attorney General R. Hewette Pate will now look to the federal courts to for an injunction blocking the hostile takeover deal on the grounds that a merger between the two e-business applications developers is…
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Microsoft Rights Management Coming to Third-Party Apps
Microsoft Corp.’s rights management technology is coming to a host of third-party desktop and line-of-business applications—with or without the blessing of the app vendors themselves. Microsoft introduced last year its Rights Management Services (RMS) solution, designed to control the digital distribution of documents. Since then, several services and infrastructure firms, such as EDS, Digex, Reciprocal,…
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PacketHop Wireless Mesh Network Survives Initial Trial
PacketHop Inc.’s wireless mesh network has successfully passed a field test by several California state agencies, according to the company’s CEO. PacketHop, whose software is designed to reroute and heal a constantly shifting mesh of wireless connections, was put to the test by the Golden Gate Safety Network, a collection of 12 agencies, including representatives…
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Microsoft, RSA Detail New Dual-Layer Security System
RSA Security Inc. on Tuesday announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop a version of its SecurID token for the Windows operating system. Revealed at the RSA Conference here, the system will provide an additional layer of security for Windows customers. Under the new plan, users will only be asked to remember a single…
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nPhase and Avnet Applied Computing Solutions Tackle M2M
Avnet Applied Computing Solutions, a specialized integrator of single-purpose computing solutions, and nPhase, a machine-to-machine (M2M) technology company, will collaborate on a new wireless M2M solution. The joint solution will combine both companies’ software engineering, solution design, system integration, life-cycle management and monitoring services into a single wireless offering. The companies announced the new solution…
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Acxiom, TransUnion Introduce Fraud Management Platform
Government and industry sources say fraud losses in the financial services, telecommunications and insurance industries is a multi-billion dollar problem. Identity theft alone reached $1.5 billion in 2002 and is expected to grow to $8.6 billion by 2006, according to a Federal Trade Commission study. Longtime partners TransUnion, a Chicago-based solutions provider specializing in business…
