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Weaving Social Nets for the Enterprise
Before his recent comeuppance, Howard Dean’s Democratic presidential campaign focused attention on the emerging category of social software, as Dean’s campaign team used Meetups and Weblogs to generate more than $40 million in contributions. In the enterprise, social software can help build connections between workers and their business contacts and customers. The social software phenomenon…
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Cisco Partner Summit Opens in Honolulu
More than 1,500 Cisco certified channel partners from around the world are expected to attend Cisco’s invitation-only Partner Summit which opens with an awards dinner tonight in Honolulu. The theme of this year’s summit is Improving Channel Partner Profitability to Drive Mutual Success. General sessions begin Wednesday with a keynote address and welcoming remarks from…
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Sun Acquires Server Technology Startup
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday announced that it would acquire server-technology firm Kealia, Inc. The start-up firm specializes in server designs utilizing Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processor. Kealia was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems who served as the company’s vice president of technology from 1984 to 1995, where…
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eBay to Expand Developers’ Access With Beefier Web Services
SAN DIEGO—eBay Inc. is expanding its developer program to support more Web services protocols and programming languages, the company announced on Tuesday during the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference being held here. eBay’s announcement meshed with one of the key themes outlined during the opening day of the conference: That major Web players such as eBay,…
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IBM Preps New Basel II Tool
As the deadline for Basel II compliance nears, IBM’s business intelligence solutions group is readying a new DB2-based tool to help financial institutions comply. Karen Parrish, vice president of World Wide Sales for IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions, told eWEEK.com that Big Blue, of Armonk, N.Y., is preparing templates that will help Basel II-affected companies respond…
