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Cognos Acquires Celequest to Speed BI
Business intelligence software developer Cognos announced Jan. 17 the acquisition of Celequest, developer of an operational dashboard appliance. The acquisition closed on Jan. 16. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. By adding privately held Celequest to its roster, Cognos will achieve several objectives: a longer reach into channel markets, a better breadth of offerings…
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Development Trio Makes Changes at the Top
Three software development tool companies have announced changes in leadership, with Zend Technologies, Catalyst Systems and Mindreef all appointing new CEOs. On Jan. 16, Cupertino, Calif.-based Zend, which makes PHP development tools for developers, announced that the company had hired Harold Goldberg, a former executive at BMC Software, as its new CEO. Goldberg held the…
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Risky Employee Behavior on Web Threatens Networks
Research by FaceTime Communications has found risky Internet activity by employees poses an increasing threat to network security for corporate enterprises. While the number of unique malware instances was down last year when compared with the 2000 identified in 2005, FaceTime researchers warn today’s malware is stealthier, more complex and harder to identify and defend…
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New Sprint Phones Tap Two Networks
Sprint Nextel is shipping a series of devices that combine the company’s CDMA voice and data services with its iDEN-based push-to-talk services. Sprint’s PowerSource phones provide both network redundancy and improved performance over phones that just use one or the other of the company’s two networks, company officials said. The first two phones in the…
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eWEEK Corporate Partners
Advisory Board Members Sam Inks Aerojet Francine M. Siconolfi Aetna Inc. Glenn Evans AT&T Kevin Levesque ATX II LLC Michael Skaff Bare Escentuals Frank Calabrese Bose Corp. Kevin R. Baradet Cornell University Carl S. Ashkin Darby Group Cos. Craig L. Lush Defense Acquisition University Randy Dugger …
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HP Keeps Top PC Spot in Q4
For the second straight quarter, Hewlett-Packard beat out Dell as the No. 1 vendor of PCs in the world, according to research firms IDC and Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2006, HP shipped more than 11 million PC units worldwide, while Dell shipped about 9.5 million, according to the two reports that were released…
