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  • Expedia Falls Prey to New Threat

    Expedia Falls Prey to New Threat

    Evan Schuman

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    More than a quarter of a million Hotels.com customers are now at high risk for identity theft after a password-protected laptop computer containing their credit card information was stolen from an Ernst & Young auditor’s locked car in what appears to be a “random petty theft,” a Hotels.com spokesperson was quoted as telling the Associated… Read more

  • SAP Opens Solution Centers to Further Fixed-Scope Agenda

    SAP Opens Solution Centers to Further Fixed-Scope Agenda

    John Hazard

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    Software maker SAP opened six solution centers worldwide to design and polish solutions based on its mySAP All-in-One platform, which can be implemented in micro-verticals in a fixed scope, cost and time. The centers will aid SAP’s scheme to use its platform as a jumping-off point for ISV partners to craft nearly complete ERP (enterprise… Read more

  • Feds to Post $65B in Alliant IT Contracts

    Feds to Post $65B in Alliant IT Contracts

    John Hazard

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    The U.S. General Services Administration, the procurement arm of the federal government, released draft RFPs June 1 for Alliant, a governmentwide program to support and upgrade the federal IT infrastructure. Alliant IT spending is expected to total more than $65 billion over 10 years. The initiative includes $50 billion in Alliant GWACs (Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts)… Read more

  • Oracle to Acquire Demantra

    Oracle to Acquire Demantra

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Oracle announced June 1 its plans to acquire supply chain management software developer Demantra. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Demantra offers software for demand management, sales and operations planning and trade promotion planning and optimization. Oracle plans to combine the Demantra suite of software with its own burgeoning stable of supply chain software… Read more

  • Sprint to Deliver Broadband BlackBerry

    Sprint to Deliver Broadband BlackBerry

    Wayne Rash

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    Sprint Nextel has begun shipping a new version of the popular BlackBerry device designed to take advantage of its Power Vision mobile broadband network. The company will also upgrade an earlier version of the BlackBerry to take advantage of the network later in 2006. The BlackBerry 7130e, as delivered by Sprint, will be able to… Read more

  • Sun to Cut up to 5,000 Jobs

    Sun to Cut up to 5,000 Jobs

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Sun Microsystems is cutting up to 13 percent of its workforce as part of a growth plan designed to return the struggling tech giant back to profitability. About 4,000 to 5,000 of Sun’s global workforce of about 37,500 will lose their jobs as part of a plan announced May 31 by the Santa Clara, Calif.,… Read more