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Equity Taps CRM for Tracking Condo Sales
Equity Residential doesn’t own boardwalk or Park Place, but if it were playing Monopoly, the Chicago-based company would manage much of the surrounding prime real estate. So when the company, which manages more than 1,000 prime properties across 35 states, decided last year to convert several of its apartment buildings into condominiums, it made sense,…
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Patent Lawsuits Crowd Microsoft’s Horizon
While Microsoft Corp. has reached a $440 million settlement with InterTrust Technologies Corp. around digital rights management patents, it is far from clearing the slate of patent-infringement claims against it. Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, remains a major patent target. It is battling between 30 and 35 ongoing patent cases that cover everything from…
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Channel Stocks Brace for Earnings
Wall Street bulls are optimistic that solutions providers and technology companies will deliver strong quarterly results this week. Among the 30 companies in our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock index, at least three– CDW Corp. (CDWC), IBM Corp. (IBM) and Unisys Corp. (UIS)–are slated to announce results this week. Non-index members such as Advanced Micro…
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Network Associates to Roll Out Sniffers for SMB
Network Associates Inc. on Monday will expand its Netasyst line of network management tools aimed at small and midsize businesses. The latest Netasyst offerings include a pair of new distributed network analysis tools that obviate the need for technicians to take a portable protocol analyzer to the network segment users want to analyze. The client/server-based…
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Channel Zone News Roundup–Week of April 5
Friday, April 9 Astoria Harnesses Internet To Automate Content Review and Updates SAN MATEO, CA — Astoria Software, a document management software developer, has released Astoria 4.1, an application for enterprises seeking to automate the authoring, review and publishing processes of complex documents. The product extends enterprise content collaboration beyond core technical writers to content…
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Report Foresees Declining IBM E-Mail Penetration
The Radicati Group Inc. on Thursday issued a report indicating that IBM’s e-mail product strategy—with its converging Notes/Domino and Workplace roadmaps—will lead to the company losing share in the corporate e-mail market over the next four years. The report says that Lotus Domino now has an installed base of 85.9 million mailboxes, representing 24 percent…
