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WHEN A TERRORIST CHECKS IN

SUN MICRO CEO SEES MORE SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL ID

PREDICT CRISES IN PLACES LIKE AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN

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  EMPOWERING EMPLOYEES WITH INFORMATION
  Information, the truism goes, is power, so why are employers not doing more to empower their employees?

  WHEN A TERRORIST CHECKS IN
  Hilton Hotels Corp has a customer relationship management (CRM) system in place that tracks guest preferences. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, that same system may be used to help the hotel chain track terrorist suspects.

  SUN MICRO CEO SEES MORE SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL ID
  Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc, said last Thursday his long-held belief the United States needs a national identity system has gained a lot of traction since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

  NCR CEO: "DATA MARTS DON'T DELIVER"
  Companies need a single view of their data, one version of the truth. This is the theme of NCR Corporation Chairman and CEO Lars Nyberg's keynote speech delivered at the company's Teradata user conference.

  RIVALS ENCROACH ON ORACLE'S DATABASE LEAD
  Oracle is facing the biggest threat ever to its database dominance, as IBM, Microsoft and new competitors chisel away at its market share.

  CONSIDERING SMART ID CARDS
  Smart cards, with their embedded computer chips, caught on more quickly among European and Asian credit card holders than Americans, who've seemed reluctant to stop swiping bank cards with low-tech magnetic stripes.

• Leading Edge R&D
  
  

  GENETIC ALGORITHMS "NATURALLY SELECT" SATELLITE ORBITS
  Some Earth-orbiting satellites will be able to keep in touch longer with controllers on the planet's surface thanks to computer programs that mimic Darwin's evolutionary model of survival-of-the-fittest.

  USING HUMANS AS A COMPUTER MODEL
  For more than three decades, the big advances in computing have soon brought new headaches. The initial steps ahead are typically in hardware —- processors, storage and networks —- and the headaches are manifested in software.

  PREDICT CRISES IN PLACES LIKE AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN
  Researchers have developed a new statistical method that can help track the political and civil instability of countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and others around the world. While the tool is still new and under development, the researchers hope it could be used as an "early-warning system" that could alert world leaders to countries that may be moving toward political turmoil.

• Business & Money Trail
  
  

  ProClarity 4.0 EMPOWERS EDWARDS THEATRES' MANAGEMENT
  Edwards Theatres, owner and operator of 53 motion picture theatres throughout Southern California, Texas and Idaho, embarked on an aggressive plan to improve information delivery and decision making capabilities throughout the organization.

  RealNames EXPANDS WEB "KEYWORDS"
  Businesses buying Web site domain names through VeriSign Inc soon will be able to add "keywords" that will allow customers to find them more quickly on the Internet.

  TERADATA INTRODUCES RETENTION MANAGER FOR CORE DEPOSITS
  Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, and Cohen Brown Management Group Inc introduced Retention Manager, the first customer relationship management (CRM) solution leveraging the combination of technology with consulting and behavioral training services to address core deposit growth and retention.

  IBM WINS LARGE WAL-MART STORAGE DEAL
  International Business Machines Corp, said it has displaced key competitors to win a high-profile storage equipment deal with retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Top Of The News

• Computers & Processors
  Intel's New Tune: More Than Gigahertz
  Intel Describes High Performance Future for Processors

• Applications
  Insightful Launches Solutions Library
  Magma Launches Workbench to Accelerate DW Migration
  Sagent Launches DirectLink Integrated BI Solution

• Peer-To-Peer
  Hummingbird EIP Selected by Medisite for Internet Portal

Short Takes

• On The Market
  DataFlux Announces the Release of v.4.2 of dfPower Studio
  Sagent Releases Sagent Solution v.4.5i

• Financial Watch
  Ecofabric/Manna Join to Deliver Personalization Technology
  Magic Completes ERP Implementation for Bet Shemesh Engines
  e.Intelligence/Teradata Predictive Intelligence Solutions

• People & Positions
  AnVil Informatics' Georges Grinstein Published
  Visual Analytics Aligns Core Management

Quote Of The Week

"Absolute anonymity breeds absolute irresponsibility. We need a thumbprint Java card in the hand of everybody in the country." -- Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems Inc

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