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Microsoft SQL Server(TM) architect Pedro Celis has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve a two-year term on the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). The committee will help guide the administration’s efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of information technologies considered vital for U.S. prosperity in the 21st century. According […]

Cisco Systems , the San Jose, Calif., network equipment maker, has promoted Dennis Powell to CFO. Powell, 55, joined the company in 1997. As senior vice president of corporate finance he handled financial planning and analysis, oversight of business unit and operational controllers and financial analysis of mergers and acquisitions. He succeeds Larry Carter who […]

Windows XP has attained operating system dominance, according to WebSideStory’s StatMarket, capturing nearly 35 percent of the worldwide Internet user population. Users have been slow catching on to the operating system. It took 18 months since its October 2001 launch to achieve one-third of the market share, while Windows 98 reached the same benchmark in […]

In March, mid-market enterprise ASP Surebridge teamed with Microsoft to launch CRM Online. Today, the Lexington, Mass.-based company reported its first customers for the hosted customer relationship management (CRM) software. Based on Microsoft’s anticipated CRM application, which launched in January, CRM Online by Surebridge is designed to enable midsize businesses to access all the functions […]

FatWire Software has snapped up the content management business of Divine Inc. at a bankruptcy auction in Boston. The Mineola, N.Y., firm gains Divine’s content server unit (formerly OpenMarket), its participant server unit (formerly Eprise) and 300 customers including BusinessWeek, JP Morgan and Ford. “We’re delighted to combine the Divine and FatWire teams to provide […]

Amid one of the most difficult initial public offering markets in decades, iPayment jumped into equity markets Monday to raise over $46 million with an IPO that was dogged by controversy regarding its underwriter Bear Stearns. The offering, the first IPO in over two months and the first Internet-related offering this year, was delayed over […]

Video compression software provider On2 Technologies has unleashed its latest VP6 codec , which the company claims outperforms video coding standards JVT/ H.26L, Windows Media 9 and DIVX 5.05. The New York-based On2, which is considered a leader in compression technology, said VP6 supports high definition without compressor restrictions and real time encoding at D1 […]

Sprint , an Overland, Kan., communications provider, has signed a multi-year deal to provide voice and data services to New Balance, a Boston running shoe maker. The value of the contract was not disclosed. Under the pact, New Balance will consolidate its current systems — including enterprise resource planning (ERP), product development, and online business-to-consumer […]

Cisco has unveiled new hardware and software to help cable network operators deliver a “triple play” of services — video, voice and high-speed data. The most significant is a router with a broadband processing engine to boost data handling speeds by 10 times. Other tools include: load balancing, so cable operators to better use bandwidth; […]

Acer America, a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Acer, Thursday launched a Tablet PC based on Intel’s Centrino technology. The TravelMate C110, like its predecessor, the C100, is a convertible-style tablet, meaning that its display swivels around to fold over the keyboard, so that it can function either as a conventional laptop or a tablet. The device […]

SWsoft Inc., a South San Francisco-based automation software vendor that targets hosting service providers, today announced an OEM agreement with Plesk, a Chantilly, Va.-based company that offers administration and management software for Web hosters. Under terms of the agreement, Plesk will offer SWsoft’s virtual private service technology, Virtuozzo. Virtuozzo is virtualization technology designed to allow […]

Telecom service provider Sprint is expanding network security offerings for its federal government customers, the company said this morning. As private sector business has lagged during the last two years, Sprint and other telecoms have stepped-up efforts to sell to Washington, which is boosting its IT spending in the face of threats. “Federal government customers […]