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- Analysis & Commentary
BUSH'S TOP IT OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT TAXES
Imagine April 15 becoming an insignificant date on the calendar. Anyone who pays federal income taxes -- and spends hours filling out forms and hunting for financial records just to meet that tax deadline -- probably wouldn't mind avoiding that deadline each year.
HONG KONGERS TO GET 'SMART' ID CARDS
Eric Wong, Hong Kong's deputy director of immigration, displays new ID cards citizens will carry, which will include names, pictures, birthdays and thumbprints.
MICROSOFT OVERHAULING FILES FOR NEXT WINDOWS
To achieve the long-elusive goal of easily finding information hidden in computer files, Microsoft is returning to a decade-old idea. The company is building new file organization software that will begin to form the underpinnings of the next major version of its Windows operating system.
SPYWARE WATCHES WHERE YOU SURF
If you download free software from the Net -- especially the ragingly popular music-sharing programs and Web games -- chances are you've also gotten more than you've bargained for. Freeloading programs can quietly piggyback onto your PC during the download process and then do things surreptitiously once they get there.
TERADATA SURVEY SHOWS EUROPEAN COMPANIES IGNORE WEB DATA
While 89 percent of IT executives in the U.K., Germany and France say their firms collect data from their Web sites, a recent survey by Teradata, division of NCR Corporation, shows that this information is not included in their decision-support data warehouses.
- Leading Edge R&D
HARVESTING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH EXTREME IT
The Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are working together to pioneer radical ways of harvesting important and ground-breaking knowledge from existing -- but largely unexploited -- data. This project, called eDIKT, is expected to have far-reaching benefits, not only for the economic infrastructure of Scotland, but also worldwide.
COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR MODELING GENES AND PROTEINS
Faculty members in Virginia Tech's Departments of Biology and Computer Science are working together to take part in a new $50-million multidisciplinary, multi-university program called BioSPICE: Simulation Program for Intracellular Evaluation.
- Business & Money Trail
ASCENTIAL SOFTWARE TO ACQUIRE VALITY TECHNOLOGY INC
Ascential Software Corp announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Vality Technology Incorporated of Boston, Mass., in a cash transaction valued at approximately $92 million. The transaction is expected to close in April 2002, subject to approval of Vality shareholders and other customary closing conditions. The merger is expected to be accretive by year-end 2002.
COMPAQ OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Compaq Computer Corporation outlined its heterogeneous storage management strategy during a forum of storage industry experts hosted by Blanc & Otus Public Relations. The Compaq storage management architecture is designed to manage anyone's storage on anyone's server.
CRM COMPANIES BEEF UP MOBILE APPS
Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft are readying new versions of their customer relationship management (CRM) suites that enhance the ability of roving sales and field-service people to access customer account information from laptops and handheld computers.
DoD AWARDS $10M TASK ORDER TO SRA
The U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Technical Information Center, has awarded SRA International, Inc a competitive task order to provide information technology and business process reengineering support to DoD's Science & Technology (S&T) program.
NETEZZA SECURES ADDITIONAL $20M FOR BI PLATFORM
Netezza Corporation announced that it completed a round of financing from top-tier venture capitalist firms totaling $20 million. Led by Battery Ventures, the series B round includes initial investors Matrix Partners and Charles River Ventures and brings the Company's total funding to more than $28 million.
NEXUS CONSULTING JOINS NuTech SOLUTIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Nexus Consulting Group, an information technology services firm specializing in business intelligence, announced that it has chosen to partner with NuTech Solutions, a leading provider of adaptive business intelligence software.
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Decision Systems/Applix Renew iTM1 Planning Partnership
Sand Tech Announces Agreement with Business Objects
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"We've long had illegal immigration problems and everyone got used to carrying the identity card. People just think it's a way of life." -- Eric Wong, Hong Kong's deputy director of immigration
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