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ALERI ADDRESSES THE QUERY PROCESSING SPEED BARRIER
Companies with high transaction volumes, such as banks and telcos, can now leapfrog the log-jam presently inhibiting the full use of their information with the help of a new vector-based processing system from Aleri.
COMPETITORS EYE MICROSOFT'S CRM MOVES
Microsoft says it's aiming for small businesses with its move into the customer relationship management software market. But industry watchers say the software giant will almost surely move upstream. Microsoft's long-anticipated entry into the CRM niche, announced in February, put it in direct competition with Onyx, Pivotal, and other software companies targeting small businesses.
CAN CONSUMER DATA PROFILE TERRORISTS?
Top financial companies are working to figure out how to use public and private consumer databases to catch possible terrorists -- and whether the information banks are up to the task.
FUTURIST CALLS FOR OPEN MINDS
Java developers should keep an open mind about where technology is headed, advised Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, at the JavaOne conference last week.
SEARCH ENGINES TRY TO BECOME 'GOOGLE KILLER'
Apostolos Gerasoulis has a message for everyone who relies on Google as an online guide: It's time to move on. After spending the past six months fine-tuning the technology, Gerasoulis and his development team in Piscataway, New Jersey, are rolling out a souped-up search engine called Teoma and taking dead aim at Google, widely regarded as the best way to find anything on the Web.
- Leading Edge R&D
THE DIGITAL ILLUSION: PCS THAT CAN SEE?
A small Silicon Valley start-up has embarked on an almost mythological effort: It wants to give computers the gift of sight. Tales of secret powers bestowed upon men by Greek gods may have a theatrical edge over Canesta's modern-day technology, but the company's plans to let computers see the world in three dimensions is dramatic in its own right.
InPhase MOVES TO HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE
In the pioneering spirit of alternative storage ideas that have come before it, InPhase Technologies later this month will demonstrate a holographic storage system at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas.
NANOMAGNETS: HUGE POTENTIAL FOR COMPACT INFORMATION STORAGE
Chemists are developing tiny magnets based on single molecules that could potentially increase digital-information storage densities 10,000 times -- to 30 terabits per square centimeter. Single-molecule magnets containing manganese show particular promise.
NEW LAW OF COMPETITION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Scientists at NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, have discovered a new "law" of competition on the World Wide Web. The law describes how Web sites in various communities attract endorsements in the form of links from other Web pages.
SKYSTREAM NETWORKS ANNOUNCES EIGHTH U.S. PATENT
SkyStream Networks, a leading developer of networking solutions for digital media delivery, announced a new U.S. patent, providing the company with complete ownership of all intellectual property associated with its award-winning Null Packet Optimization (NPO) technology.
- Business & Money Trail
AltaVista UNVEILS UPDATED CORPORATE SEARCH TOOL
Perhaps what you're looking for is right under your nose. Or in your co-worker's computer. If so, you may want to check out AltaVista Co's new Enterprise Search Edition 2.0, which offers to help corporate users find the information they are looking for in often labyrinthine corporate systems.
INSIGHT FOR DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT/ANALYSIS
Firstlogic Inc, a global provider of enterprise information quality solutions, introduced IQ Insight, a data quality assessment and analysis program that complements the firm's industry leading Information Quality Suite. The new offering enables companies to quickly inspect their data stores and quantify quality problems.
HARTE-HANKS TRILLIUM SOFTWARE/NetPartners JOIN FORCES
The Harte-Hanks Trillium Software division and NetPartners Sdn. Bhd. of Malaysia announced they are working together to bring Trillium data quality to Malaysian and Brunei companies.
MID-2000 SEC LETTERS TO IBM QUESTIONED REPORTING METHODS
IBM is the latest multinational company to come under fire for its accounting practices, except that in Big Blue's case, the scrutiny came more than two years ago.
PeopleSoft, PEERS SING EARNINGS BLUES
Business software maker PeopleSoft said that it would fall short of expectations for its first quarter, blaming a "cautious economic environment" and joining a string of business software companies with earnings woes.
TERADATA INTRODUCES DATA MINING ACCELERATOR PACKAGES
Teradata introduced Data Mining Accelerator Packages designed to simplify data mining startup and enable businesses to get results in less time. The packages, available in three configurations, are a combination of software and consulting services that enable businesses to integrate data mining into day-to-day operations across the enterprise to better serve customers.
SINGLE-SOURCE TRADEMARK INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
Trademark owners and attorneys now have a single source for monitoring and auditing unauthorized uses of trademarks. Intelliseek and TrademarkBots.com have launched the Web-based Trademark Search and Monitoring Application that will be powered by Intelliseek's Enterprise Search Server (ESS) intelligence platform.
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