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Stepping up its battle against Pocket PC in the enterprise, Palm, Inc. said Monday that has started shipping its Wireless Database Access Server (WDBAS), which will enable information technology departments and systems integrators to create applications for wireless Palm OS-based devices that access corporate databases. The company touted release of the product as the second […]

By Erin Joyce AT&T Broadband and Comcast Corp. , say they are willing to open their cable lines to competing Internet Service Providers as part of their plan to merge their operations into the nation’s largest cable provider. “AT&T Comcast is fully committed to negotiating mutually beneficial service agreements with Internet service providers (“ISPs”) so […]

After less than a year, ADS Financial Services Solutions , a Quincy, Mass., IT consultant and systems integrator for the financial services companies, has closed its EarningsInsights subsidiary. Based in Nashville, Tenn., EarningsInsights was a startup application service provider offering customer relationship management (CRM) software for mid-tier financial institutions and small banks. ADS bought the […]

Storage Computer Corporation joins more than 45 vendors to showcase the largest demonstration of interoperable enterprise-wide storage networking solutions at the Spring 2002 Storage Networking World(R) (SNW) Conference and Expo, held April 2-5 in Palm Desert, Calif. This year’s SNW Interoperability Lab, titled Find Your Storage Solution, is designed to give end users and storage […]

The board of directors for Veritas Software Corp. said Dave J. Roux, co-founder and principal of Silver Lake Management, LLC, has been appointed director. Roux, 45, has served as co-founder and principal of Silver Lake Management, LLC, a New York and Silicon Valley investment partnership. Roux is also chairman of Liberate Technologies, Inc. in Redwood […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Deloitte Consulting L.P. today announced a new Global Solutions Alliance to extend their five-year relationship and add new customer-focused enterprise-wide solutions. This alliance is intended to deliver tested, pre-integrated vertical and horizontal solutions that could help customers speed implementation, and, ultimately, reduce total cost of ownership. Sun and Deloitte Consulting will […]

Pepsi Launches Sierra Mist TV-Web Effort Pepsi is looking to build awareness for its new Sierra Mist unit by promoting the soft drink in a Web and television promotion tied into the reality TV series “Survivor.” The brand will kick off its largest ever consumer campaign Thursday evening with “Survive with Sierra Mist,” in which […]

South Korea has been particularly successful, when compared to other of its counterparts in the region, in rolling out broadband services to users. In 2001, the number of broadband subscribers in the country grew by 58.7 percent from 4.1 million subscribers in 2000 to 6.5 million in 2001, said Frost & Sullivan. According to Manoj […]

Qwest Cyber Solutions, (QCS) an enterprise ASP and subsidiary of telecom giant Qwest Communications, yesterday announced a multi-year ASP contract with the city of Omaha and Douglas County, Nebraska. QCS did not specify the dollar value of the contract. Under terms of the agreement, QCS will provide the government agencies with hosting and management services […]

In its second acquisition this month, contract management software maker I-many is buying enterprise software firm Menerva Technologies for $8.5 million. The value of the cash and stock deal could rise on future performance incentives. The transaction, which must still pass muster with Menerva stockholders, is expected to close by month’s end. “Combined with our […]

Despite the sluggish global economy of 2001, the tape library industry achieved unit growth of 3% and revenue decline of only 4% compared to 2000 according to the newly completed Freeman Report, “Tape Library Outlook 2002.” Total demand for tape libraries rose to 63,500 units in 2001 and is projected to climb to 134,800 units […]

Adaptec Inc. , a data-storage-access solutions provider, today announced licensing and OEM agreements with IBM that it expects will lead to approximately $200 million in new revenue opportunities for Adaptec over the next three years. According to the agreements, Adaptec will supply RAID products to IBM for its xSeries servers and license IBM’s ServeRAID technology […]