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Michael Ward, president and COO of Digitas , a Boston marketing technology specialist, will leave at the end of the year for a job with Bain Capital. Ward previously worked for Bain, a prominent investment firm, before joining Digitas in 1997. His impending departure triggers a reorganization of Digitas’ upper management ranks. Robert Willms will […]

Despite adverse economic conditions, 5 million businesses and consumers signed up for digital subscriber line service (DSL) from July to September, according to new research from industry analyst Point Topic. The gains pushed the number of worldwide DSL customers past the 30 million mark and delighted advocates of the technology which uses sophisticated modulation schemes […]

Fourteen scientific and technical information organizations from ten major science agencies have collaborated to create science.gov, a free Web portal providing access to science-related reports, databases and other information. Dubbed “FirstGov for Science,” the site’s resources include technical reports, journal citations, databases, federal web sites, and fact sheets. Support for building the science.gov gateway came […]

IBM is positioning itself for IP Telephony with a new group of services to help customers migrate telephone systems to Internet Protocol networks. The new Network Consulting, Integration and Deployment Services group was formed to help customers plan and migrate their current enterprise telephone systems to a single network using Internet Protocol (IP), IBM said. […]

Itronix, which makes wireless field computing systems, today unveiled a new laptop computer that supports up to three different wireless networks. GoBook II, which will be available next month for $4,495, supports 802.11b, Bluetooth, and wireless WAN technologies such as CDMA 1xRTT, CDPD, and GPRS. In addition, the notebook incorporates Itronix’s Common Radio Module Architecture […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is testing a new system to replace its standard paper processing of patent applications with electronic processing. The prototype will include front-end administrative processing of selected new applications, as well as processing and examination of pending applications in three art units that handle biotech and semiconductor inventions. The […]

Looking to simplify development of advanced applications, Hewlett Packard has expanded its Web services pact with Microsoft . Specifically, HP will integrate its XML Web services tools, including its Enterprise Toolkit, into Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET application development environment. “Our tools will allow a wide variety of developers to design and develop manageability into applications […]

Replying to Can Microsoft Erase Handwriting on the Wall? by Chris Nerney Your article seems to concede victory in the J2EE vs. .NET server battle to Microsoft. I’m a little surprised since most pundits seem to think that Java is still alive and kicking on the server. Is the next big Microsoft battle then .NET […]

Mobile PDA maker Research In Motion (RIM) Thursday introduced a new data and voice-enabled handheld – the BlackBerry 6750 – that will operate on CDMA2000 1X or third-generation wireless networks. As part of the product launch RIM said it is partnering with Verizon Wireless , which will offer the new device via Verizon’s national high-speed […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey includes only those servers […]

Describing Web services as one of the holy grails of the technology industry, financial services giant Merrill Lynch today announced it has joined the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). The WS-I was formed in February to help accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable Web services across a variety of platforms, applications and programming languages. […]

Qualcomm and China Unicom, the wireless subsidiary of state-run China United Telecom, on Wednesday announced they have signed an agreement to create a joint venture that will foster the growth of the developer community dedicated to Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform in China. The joint venture will capitalize on the technical advantages […]