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Oracle and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday that they will collaborate to develop technology and applications that will spur use of wireless devices to access enterprise data. The goal, the companies said in a statement, was to promote use of DoCoMo’s third generation (3G) FOMA service, which was launched in Japan last October. The […]

TMP Worldwide Inc. , a supplier of human capital solutions, including the Internet career portal giant Monster, today announced that the undergraduate admissions office of Yale University has selected CollegeWare as its new recruitment management system. Delivered via an ASP model, CollegeWare is a Web-based tool that is designed to help colleges and universities handle […]

Helping to extend its business-to-extended enterprise (B2E) initiative for optimizing the use of Web-based portal technologies. PwC Consulting, and SAP Portals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP AG , today announced a global alliance to deliver SAP Portal’s Enterprise Portal and Business Intelligence to its B2E clients. Through the alliance, both firms are working […]

Integration software developer webMethods, Inc. is launching two new groups targeted at driving and maintaining customer success. The Customer Relations group will be led by Garland Hall, chief customer officer, and the Global Customer Services group will be headed by senior vice president Chris Barbin. As chief customer officer, reporting directly to chairman and chief […]

Ecora, a Portsmouth, N.H., maker of IT infrastructure auditing and security management software, has named Paul Silverman, formerly of Inforonics, as vice president of research and development. Silverman has nearly 30 years development and management experience. At Littleton, Mass.-based Inforonics, he was director of software development, makers of Internet and Intranet Web sites. Previously, he […]

Seattle-based InstantService, a provider of chat and e-mail customer service solutions, said Wednesday that monthly client usage surpassed 4 million minutes during February 2002. The firm said the milestone represents a quadrupling of customer usage within the last six months. “Jupiter is forecasting that online customer service contacts will reach 4.7 billion by 2006,” said […]

Systinet, a Cambridge maker of software platforms to create Web services, has raised $21 million in financing to hire sales and marketing staff and enhance its product. Warburg Pincus led the round. The new backing comes five months after Systinet raised a $2.3 million seed round from Windcrest Partners was lead investor. 3TS Venture Partners, […]

Communications components maker Agere Systems said it is the first company to start volume production of a three-dimensional microelectromechanical systems (3D MEMS) optical switch component. Available in 64×64 and 32×32 configurations, Agere’s component offers systems manufacturers a scalable, low-loss solution for high-speed all-optical switching systems, cross-connects and add/drop multiplexers. Announced in 2001, Agere’s S5200 3D […]

Auspex Systems has released the NS3000XA (Xtreme Availability) high availability system for its NS3000 series of Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers. According to the company, the dual-server configuration with Auspex’s ServerGuardV software helps businesses avoid interruption of data delivery through system and component redundancy, the ability to automatically failover multiple faulty components rather than an […]

Overland Data has certified Emulex Corp.’s LightPulse 2Gb/s LP90002L host bus adapters (HBAs) for use in 2Gb/s Storage Area Network (SAN) environments featuring Overland tape libraries. According to Overland Data, during certification testing, the 2 Gb/s SANs were powered by Emulex LP90002L HBAs, Overland’s Fibre Channel Option (FCO) card and a 2 Gb/s switch, all […]

Brocade Communications Systems SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fabric Switch has been selected by Datamation Magazine as the leading new product of 2001 in the Networking Hardware category. Datamation Product of the Year awards are selected by IT professionals from an elite group of products which are nominated by industry leaders. The awards recognize outstanding applications, development […]