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Bluetooth Vendors Look for Respect, Adoption
SAN JOSE, Calif.—According to wireless industry executives here for the Bluetooth Americas 2003 expo, Bluetooth is now boring. And to some that is both a good and a bad thing. In a keynote address, Mike McCamon, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group of Overland Park, Kan., said that while the short-range wireless technology…
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Microsoft Clarifies Intentions to Retire JVM-Based Products
Four days after posting a note to a community site specifying its intent to retire a number of its flagship products as a result of the Sun Java lawsuit, Microsoft Corp. has decided to extend the cut-off date by a week. On Monday, Microsoft posted a new note to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) community…
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SAS Picks Up Energy Risk-Management Firm
SAS Institute Inc. made another move Tuesday to strengthen its vertical risk-management offerings with the acquisition of RiskAdvisory, a Canadian company that provides risk-management consulting and software for the energy industry. The move comes six months after SAS acquired another risk management company, OpRisk Analytics, which specialized in operational risk management for the financial services…
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Progeny Ramps Up Its Red Hat Linux Services
Progeny Linux Systems Inc., which last month appointed Caldera/SCO co-founder and former CEO Ransom Love to its board, next year will extend its software update and transition services to users of Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9. The move will give subscribers to the Progeny Transition Services access to a software repository containing security updates…
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Contract Watch: Are Smart Cards Wise Investments?
p>If you check my biography, you’ll discover that I have a soft spot in my heart for the education vertical market. So do savvy solutions providers. Although colleges and universities are struggling to balance their budgets, the education vertical remains a province for advanced technology projects. Just ask Delaware State University (DSU), where all students,…
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Oracle Girds 10g for the Grid
Oracle Corp. Wednesday is expected to announce the release of its Oracle Application Server 10g, the company’s first application server to support grid computing. “We’re releasing the first grid-capable application server this week, the Oracle Application Server 10g, which includes nearly 600 new features,” said Robert Shimp, vice president of technology management at Oracle. “It’s…
