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Microsoft’s long-awaited customer relationship management (CRM) software is here. The software giant today announced the North American availability of Microsoft CRM through its Business Solutions division. According Microsoft, the software is aimed at midmarket organizations and is available as an on-site or as a hosted application through resellers. Microsoft CRM, according to a statement released […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its January 2003 survey from 35,424,956 sites. Although this represents another slight decrease from the number of responses received in November, it is still greater than October’s all-time low of 35.1 million sites. It is, […]

AirMagnet, Inc. on Monday announced a new wireless LAN analyzer that includes both performance and security monitoring functions, for 802.11a and 802.11b wireless LANs. The AirMagnet Duo enables users to manage, troubleshoot and assess the security of both types of wireless LANs from a single screen. The PC-based analyzer detects 30 different types of security […]

The Bush administration is calling for “about $60 billion” in federal IT spending for fiscal 2004, according to Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The IT budget represents an approximate 15 percent increase over the $52 billion request for 2003. Davis, speaking at a U.S. Chamber of […]

Enterprise ASP Corio Inc. yesterday announced that it has signed a subcontractor agreement with Parker Management Consultants, Ltd. (PMC) to supply applications management and infrastructure for the development of future systems at the Crane Division of the U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center. Corio reports that its mission under the agreement is to rapidly set […]

Verio, an Englewood, Colo.-based provider of IP services, yesterday announced that it has been selected as an authorized provider of broadband network services for The Quilt’s Commodity Internet Services (CIS) project, which is sponsored by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), a university-led research and development consortium. The goal of The Quilt is […]

Looking to meet customer demand for an open-standards based customer relationship management (CRM) solution, E.piphany Inc. , a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of CRM software, today announced that it has entered into agreements to integrate IBM’s WebSphere and BEA Systems’ WebLogic J2EE application servers into the E.piphany E.6 platform. According to E.piphany, the integration combines […]

Agere Systems Tuesday unveiled a new chip geared to make desktop and mobile hard disk drives capable of storing more data than ever — and with little data integrity compromise. The chip, the first in Agere’s family of TrueStore components for storage applications, offers increased functionality and signal integrity. The TrueStore RC6500 read-channel is being […]

Expanding and extending a previous relationship, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a search engine technology specialist, has signed a five-year contract with Elsevier, an online and off-line publisher of scientific, technical and medical journals. Under terms of the pact, FAST’s Data Search, a scalable real-time search platform for enterprise as well as Web search, will […]

Flamenco Networks, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based company that specializes in Web services management (WSM), announced today that it is now shipping the Enterprise Edition of its software. The move is designed to give customers multiple options for securing, provisioning, monitoring and managing Web Services-based transactions. The company says the enterprise version is based on the same […]

Software giant Microsoft and storage specialist McData will partner to provide enterprise customers with a data center blueprint. The collaboration’s end result will take the form of a a set of recommendations, standards and tested configurations for a corporate data center’s IT infrastruture. The guidelines, dubbed Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA), will, of course advocate the […]

Centra , a Lexington, Mass.-based ASP that offers a real-time communication and collaboration services, today announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with SiteScape, a Wilmington, N.C.-based provider of Web-based collaboration software and services. Under terms of the agreement, SiteScape will integrate Centra’a technology into its portfolio of collaboration products and will sell […]