Line56 Media and Plumtree Software have published a survey of organizations deploying Enterprise Web software.
Posted Oct 31, 2003
Microsoft Corporation has announced plans to divide its MSN division into two sections: Communications and Information.
Posted Oct 31, 2003
This was the year of steak—lean steak—and little unnecessary sizzle at the Seybold San Francisco 2003 conference held in early September. The Seybold Seminars management team—faced with contemporary economic realities in the IT industry and recognizing that past exhibitors needed at least as much bang for fewer show-budget buck—reinvented the event, implementing a modular, homogeneous booth design for all participants.
Posted Oct 31, 2003
InfoSpace, Inc. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire North American mobile media provider Moviso LLC from Vivendi Universal Net USA for $25 million in cash.
Posted Oct 24, 2003
The Board of Trustees of Biological Abstracts has voted to pursue final negotiations with The Thomson Corporation leading to a potential sale of the publishing assets of Biological Abstracts, Inc and BIOSIS, UK.
Posted Oct 21, 2003
EMC Corporation and Documentum, Inc. have announced a definitive agreement whereby EMC will acquire Documentum in a stock transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion.
Posted Oct 21, 2003
Symantec Corp. has announced the acquisition of SafeWeb, Inc., a provider of SSL VPN appliances, for $26 million in cash.
Posted Oct 21, 2003
Speedy communication is only one aspect of doing business in real time. Even more important: the ability for execs to find out what's going on under the hood in time to fix problems before they cause something important to blow up.
Posted Oct 15, 2003
Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. have announced a joint development project that combines Amazon Web Services and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) capabilities of Microsoft Office System programs in an effort to provide users with access to Amazon.com products and data while working in Microsoft productivity applications.
Posted Oct 10, 2003
Open Text Corporation's Board of Directors has declared a 100% stock dividend, which will double the number of the company's outstanding common shares, and effectively achieve a two-for-one split of Open Text's outstanding common shares.
Posted Oct 10, 2003
NetScreen Technologies, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neoteris, Inc., for approximately $245 million in stock and $20 million in cash at the closing, including assumption of all outstanding Neoteris options.
Posted Oct 07, 2003
In an era when cyberterrorism is more than just a nuisance, the need to provide effective means to thwart such attacks is critical for today's leading businesses and universities, as well as the general public.
Posted Oct 06, 2003
Where should the line between maintaining national security and infringing on personal freedoms be drawn? The Department of Defense has recently added some fuel to the fire in this perpetual debate.
Posted Oct 01, 2003
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has entered into an information alliance with Information Today, Inc., (ITI).
Posted Sep 30, 2003
Trigo Technologies, Inc., a provider of product information management software, has announced the completion of a $12 million Series C round of expansion financing led by Pequot Ventures.
Posted Sep 30, 2003
LexisNexis U.S., a provider of legal, news, and business information services, has announced its intention to build a new facility on a Springfield, Ohio, campus in the Southwest Ohio technology corridor.
Posted Sep 26, 2003
Swets Blackwell has announced that it plans to change its company name to 'Swets Information Services' in December 2003.
Posted Sep 05, 2003
Xenos Group Inc. has signed a definitive purchase agreement with XML-Global Technologies, Inc. to acquire all of the business assets of XML-Global Technologies, Inc, a software developer and vendor of XML middleware products with operations in Vancouver, Canada.
Posted Sep 02, 2003
The Thomson Corporation has acquired Techstreet, Inc., a digital content delivery company that provides full-text industry standards and specifications to engineers, researchers, and technical and information professionals worldwide.
Posted Sep 02, 2003
According to the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) study, ebusinesses are getting better overall in the view of their customers, but performance varies widely from company to company.
Posted Aug 22, 2003
MSNBC.com, a provider of news and journalism on the Internet, has launched of MSNBC Wireless Traveler, designed to help unwired mobile professionals stay on top of news and information. Wireless Traveler is available at Centrino.MSNBC.com.
Posted Aug 22, 2003
Endeavor Information Systems has relocated the company's headquarters. The move reportedly offers the library technology provider with more space for growth and increased capabilities in services for academic and research libraries.
Posted Aug 19, 2003
Vignette Corp. has released the results of a recent study of nearly 400 information technology (IT) executives that shows customers are looking for more sophisticated, out-of-the-box integration between enterprise applications, information systems and portal initiatives.
Posted Aug 19, 2003
Michael Dunn, formerly chief technology officer and executive vice president of Encoda Systems, Inc., has joined Hearst Interactive Media as a vice president.
Posted Aug 12, 2003
The Board of Directors of United Press International (UPI) has appointed Arnaud de Borchgrave as interim Editor-in-Chief.
Posted Aug 12, 2003