Monthly Archives: May 2010

8 Questions with Infor’s Bruce Richardson

From rock star analyst to chief strategy officer for ERP vendor Infor, Bruce Richardson’s had quite a ride this year. He recently gave CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum a peek at what Infor has up its sleeve next. Continue reading

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Oco adds enterprise features to on-demand BI

On-demand BI (business intelligence) vendor Oco announced version 4.0 of its platform on Wednesday, a release that contains multiple new functions aimed at serving large enterprises. Continue reading

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Oracle acquires mobile billing tech; response to SAP-Sybase?

Oracle announced Wednesday it is acquiring technology for prepaid telecommunications billing from eServGlobal, boosting its hand in the telecom market. Continue reading

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EMC pays $87.5M fine to settle kickback charges

The U.S. Department of Justice said today that EMC has paid the government $87.5 million to settle allegations that it gave kickbacks to consultants and overcharged for hardware and software. Continue reading

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Sybase promises integrated mobile platform

Sybase plans to rework its diverse bundle of mobile offerings into a coherent and integrated new whole. Continue reading

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Seagate hybrid drive delivers SSD performance at HDD price

Seagate announced its latest attempt to jump start sales in the niche SSD hybrid drive market today with the Momentus XT, a 7200 RPM hard-disk drive combined with 4GB of solid-state drive capacity at a starting price point of $113. Continue reading

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SAP quiet on its plans for Sybase

Sybase users and partners are mostly in the dark about how the company’s technologies will fare as pending owner SAP has apparently decided not to fully discuss its plans until the deal closes. Continue reading

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NAC: What went wrong?

After spending four months in the lab testing the 12 leading network access control products, we’ve come to this conclusion: Five years of hype, buzzwords, white papers, product launches, standards battles and vendor shakeouts have resulted in ve… Continue reading

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Google’s I/O, Street View get news focus

Google ruled much of the IT news headlines this week, with a stream of announcements from its I/O event. But not all the news related to Google was pleasant — the company’s admission late last week that it had inadvertently captured data from unprotec… Continue reading

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Update: Symantec to buy VeriSign’s authentication business for $1.28B

Symantec will pay $1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign’s authentication business. Continue reading

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