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Business Process Outsourcing Starts the Year Strong

Business process outsourcing is on a roll, according to TPI, a broker of outsourcing deals. In a report on outsourcing trends for the first quarter...

Sun Open-Sources Enterprise Toolset

Sun Microsystems announced on April 11 that it has open-sourced key components of its Sun Java Studio Enterprise toolset as a project on its...

Googles Googley Culture Kept Alive By Tech

Can technology be used to maintain a corporations particular work and office culture? Google Vice President of Engineering Douglas Merrill thinks so. He recently suggested...

Patent, IP Abuse Poses Hurdle in Tech Evolution

Lately Ive been thinking a lot about innovation. To a large degree, this has been due to the 30th and 10th anniversaries of, respectively,...

Stopping Patent Trolls

Whats the latest synonym for "patent troll"? Last month, it was "NTP." This month, the watchword is "MercExchange," the name of the small e-commerce...

RFP: Team-Based Collaboration

For organizations that need broadly available team-based collaboration solutions, hosted Web-based applications provide easy-to-deploy platforms that can be shared even with third parties, such...

Salesforce.com to Boost Mobile App Access with Sendia

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com believes that it will be able to jump-start the deployment of business applications on wireless devices with its small, but strategic acquisition...

HP Aims SOA Frameworks at Vertical Markets

Hewlett-Packard is again building on its SOA story—and working hard to appeal to companies that may be ready to implement a services-based architecture. The...

NCR Taps IDVelocity to Round Out RFID Portfolio

NCR, which offers hardware and software solutions around RFID, from customer relationship management software to bar-code scanners, announced April 10 it has acquired IDVelocity.IDVelocity,...

Lawson Pitches SOA for the Midmarket

ORLANDO, Fla.—At its CUE user conference here the week of April 10, officials of Lawson Software emphasized the companys focus on service-oriented architecture for...