IBM to Buy Ilog for $340 Million
IBM announces its intent to acquire Ilog to add its business rules technology to WebSphere. - IBM has announced its plans to acquire Ilog, a maker of business rules software and more, in a transaction valued at $340 million.
IBM officials said upon completion of the deal, IBM will combine its business process management (BPM), business optimization, and service oriented architecture (SOA) t...
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IBM Beefs Up PLM Investments
IBM will increase its investment in product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. - IBM Corp. is expected to announce on July 29 that it will increase product lifecycle management (PLM) resources and investments to help companies manage product development complexity and fine-tune global product launch operations.
To help support PLMs integration as a core set of enterprise appli...
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Ex Google Staffers Launch Cuil Search With Spotty Access
Cuil launches as the latest Google challenger, promising better search results than the market leader. Yet indexing of 120 billion Web pages won't help the users access the site any better; Cuil is hammered with traffic to make it tough to use. - This morning around 8 a.m. EDT, I entered www.cuil.com to check out search startup Cuil (pronounced quot;cool quot; and derived from an Irish word for knowledge), which July 28 launched its own unique approach to organizing the ridiculous glut of information on the Web.
My point was to learn wh...
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Google's Wikipedia Answer: A Second Shooter on the Google Knol-Wikipedia Battle
Google Knol tries to out-wiki Wikipedia. Just as you settled on Wikipedia as your de facto source for all information, Google Knol jumps onto the scene. Google Knol is Google's latest attempt to gain yet another foothold on your everyday life by providing users with a new source for their daily zeitgeist of knowledge -- the wiki. How long can Wikipedia survive until Google does no harm them to oblivion? - Welcome to the newest player in the sea
of Web sites trying to answer your
questions: Google Knol. Seen by many as the Wikipedia killer, Google Knol mixes
the topical breadth of Wikipedia with the implied expertise in categories of
About.com to create a limitless, write-for-pay cyclopedia endeav...
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San Francisco Network Passwords Spilled by Prosecutors
UPDATED: San Francisco prosecutors accidentally leaked user names and passwords to the city's network, but officials say the network is safe. The District Attorney's office revealed 150 user names and passwords when they entered them as evidence in the case against Terry Childs, the network admin who locked the city out of its own network for nine days in July. - The tale of the rogue network admin at the city and county of San Francisco continues to roll on with the IT world watching incredulously.
In the latest update to the 15-day-long caper, prosecutors from District Attorney Kamala Harris' office submitted personal-access passwords and user names in ...
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Wireless Gains Drive Verizon
Verizon sees strong quarterly profits thanks to wireless sales and enhanced margins. The improvements in those areas offset the continued decline in landline users for Verizon. - By Ritsuko Ando
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc. posted a
higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday on strong wireless
sales and improved margins, offsetting a fall in landline users.
Executives said on a conference call that the No. 2 U.S. phone
company did not expect a...
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Sometimes Less Is More
Starbucks store closings fit in with the coffee retailers IT strategy. And if it means you have to wait a little longer for your latte, enjoy your surroundings. - So Starbucks is closing some of its lower-performing stores. Across the nation, java junkies, who will now have to walk six blocks instead of three to get their grande mocha latte fix, are venting feelings of frustration and betrayal. Im as much of a coffee freak as any other journalist, but forgive...
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Rearden Adds Expense Management, Takes Mobile International
Web concierge Rearden Commerce buys ExpenseWire, an Internet-based business service that lets users create and submit travel expense reports online. The buy is concurrent with the announcement of Rearden's International Mobile Service to cut roaming call costs for business travelers. - Rearden Commerce, the Web concierge that lets corporate employees handle their travel arrangements, has bought ExpenseWire, which provides expense management software over the Internet.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by Rearden, which July 28 also unveiled its International Mobi...
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eWeek Newsbreak, July 28, 2008
AMD is taking a pass on the low-cost notebook market for now. The chipmakers new marketing chief Nigel Dessau told eWEEK AMD will continue to watch the so-called netbook space as it continues to develop, but has no immediate plans to offer specific processors for these laptops Intel is already marketing; Web giant Yahoo reported dipping second-quarter earnings last week ahead of its Aug. 1 annual shareholder meeting. That meeting could see shareholders could press executives to accept a deal with Microsoft; Facebook made sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site last week. Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it is cracking down on applications that Spam users; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged $375 million last week to fight what they called a global tobacco epidemic. It marks Bill Gates first public event as chairman of his Bill Melinda Gates Foundation since he left his full-time executive role at Microsoft in June. - Video Content....
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Sophos Eyes German Data Loss Prevention and Encryption Vendor
Sophos is looking to buy Utimaco for about $340 million. The move would bulk up the DLP and encryption areas for Sophos that rivals McAfee and Symantec both bolstered earlier this year. - Sophos announced plans July 28 to make a roughly $340 million bid to buy German security vendor Utimaco Software.
Utimaco focuses on data loss prevention and endpoint encryption technologies through its SafeGuard product line. According to Sophos officials, the acquisition would extend Sophos sec...
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