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Will RFID Chips Break the 5-Cent Barrier?

When Wal-Mart imposed its seemingly -- to the suppliers at least -- draconian RFID mandate, it also held out the future promise that the cost of the technology would someday be quite affordable, perhaps as low as 5 US cents per tag. That day hasn't come -- at least not yet ...

Bush Cites Iraqi Bloggers’ Positive War Reports

President George Bush cited the observations of two Iraqibloggers who have been making positive posts about the changing situation in Baghdad as evidence that U.S. activities there are finally having the intended effect ...

Designing a 21st Century Contact Center

WhenRoyal Caribbean tappedSteelcase Applied Research to help it outfit a new call center in Oregon, the cruise line had done its due diligence ...

At 20 Million, Are Vista Sales Hopping or Ho-Hum?

In the first month of its availability, Microsoft Vista sold more than 20 million licenses -- more than double the number of first-month sales of Windows XP. In January 2002, the company announced sales of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market ...

Verizon Gives Alcatel-Lucent $6B Wireless VoIP Mandate

The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, US$6 billion contract to its primary network infrastructure provider, Alcatel-Lucent ...

SugarCRM Adds New Service Functionality

Open source CRM vendorSugarCRM is adding service-related capabilities into its product line now that it has solidified its hold on marketing and analytics ...

Anti-Porn Law Loses Out to First Amendment

A federal judge has overturned the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a 1998 law that was designed to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet. Although it was signed by President Clinton, it never took effect ...

Adobe’s Guidance Delights Investors

Adobe Systems posted better-than-expected guidance for the second quarter, causing its shares to rise by some 5.5 percent ...

Company Chair, Cerberus Team to Take ACS Private in $5.9B Cash Deal

Cerberus Capital Management has put an offer on the table to takeAffiliated Computer Services private in a US$5.9 billion buyout. That translates to $59.25 per share, a 15.5 percent premium over the ACS closing price on Monday ...

‘Hillary 1984’ – First ‘YouTube Election’ Off to Flaming Start

After promising to maintain a civilized tone, Sen. Barack Obama has sent a shot across the bow of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign in an advertisement for his 2008 bid for the presidency now appearing on YouTube ...

Salesforce.com Aims to Do for Portals What MySpace Did for Networking

Salesforce.com's Spring '07 release, specifically the AppSpace product, is being hailed as a quantum leap forward in functionality that will support users in fulfilling their corporate missions ...

Report: Money Makes Malware World Go Round

Data theft has become the raison d'etre for malware on the Internet, according to the latest figures released by security vendor Symantec ...

Microsoft Offers Glimpse of Dynamics CRM

In his keynote address at Microsoft's Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego last week, CEO Steve Ballmer included a preview of the company's upcoming Dynamics CRM application, code-named "Titan." ...

LiteScape Unveils Open Source Desktop Client for Communications

For some time there has been a drive to smooth the process of building applications over existing call platforms. Also, more and more PBX operators have been moving platforms to open source -- Cisco Call Manager 5.0, for instance, is Linux based. Now the next step in developing robust open source unified communications is apparently here: an open source desktop client...

Ballmer Questions Google’s Sanity

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered some harsh criticism of Google, widely considered to be the software giant's primary rival, in comments made to students at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business ...

SAP Outlines SMB Strategy at CeBIT

SAP has ratcheted up its campaign to increase its middle market customer base with the rollout of several new applications. At the CeBIT trade fair now taking place in Hannover, Germany, the company introduced an enhanced All-In-One application that offers some 80 micro verticals and is componentized even further for rapid redevelopment by partners and deployment by customers...

Cisco Takes Battle to Redmond and Beyond

Cisco has agreed to pay a pretty penny for WebEx. By any measure, the US$3.2 billion -- in cash -- represents a hefty premium. The company obviously has big plans for this product line. Either that, or it wanted to take WebEx off the market so no one else would acquire it. Or both ...

FrontRange Acquires Enteo

FrontRange has acquiredEnteo, a privately held Germany-based company, at undisclosed terms. The firm's product offerings include applications for patch management, distribution of operating systems and applications, license management and compliance, and configuration management. It has 1,200 customers ...

Cisco Throws Down Gauntlet With $3.2B WebEx Buy

Taking direct aim at Microsoft, Cisco plans to acquireWebEx Communications for US$3.2 billion. Under the agreement, Cisco will purchase all of the outstanding shares of WebEx for $57 per share. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007 ...

Microsoft Scoops Up Tellme

Microsoft on Wednesday confirmed that it plans to acquire Tellme, a privately held speech recognition vendor. The deal gives Microsoft functionality in Tellme's core competencies: voice-activated nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search ...

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