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Adobe Adds Bar Code to PDF
If you were hoping the Internal Revenue Service would conveniently misplace your tax forms this year, don’t bank on it yet. Adobe Systems Inc. this week unveiled a new technology to improve forms processing, and the IRS is already testing it out. Adobe, of San Jose, Calif., says its new bar-code technology for PDF forms…
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Tool Speeds Supply Flow
E2open inc., the consortium founded by IBM, Hitachi Ltd., Solectron Corp. and Seagate Technology LLC, is making it easier for users along an electronics supply chain to implement and integrate supply chain processes. The company’s namesake SCCS (Supply Chain Coordination Solution), which became available last week, helps companies implement supply chain processes such as multitier…
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Automating Business Analytics
Lawson Software and Best Software Inc., developers of enterprise software for midsize companies, are providing more business automation capabilities for those customers. Lawson, of St. Paul, Minn., last week introduced its Promotions InSight package, which provides retailers with prepackaged analytics. Due in the fourth quarter, Promotions InSight offers quantitative measurement forecasting and analysis capabilities that…
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New Blade Servers Pack Power of Their Own
New hardware on the way from Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Intel Corp. will show that blade servers need not be compact versions of their traditional server tower cousins. Blade servers, which two years ago could be found primarily in one- and two-processor configurations, are growing in variety and giving users more options within the smaller…
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ICANN Board Approves Controversial Domain Name Service
While a controversial back-ordering service for Web addresses moved another step closer to becoming a reality over the weekend, pending lawsuits leave its future murky. The board of directors for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Saturday approved the back-ordering service, called the wait listing service (WLS), during their Rome meeting. The…
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Meeting the Market Bulls
Channel executives are talking and Wall Street likes what it hears. Indeed, executives from integrators, consulting firms and data management companies have spoken at several investor conferences over the past three weeks. Much of the chatter has drawn positive attention from financial advisors. MPS Group Inc., for one, apparently made a good impression during a…
