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HP Hires Vignette CEO to Head Software Business
Hewlett-Packard is tapping Thomas Hogan, the CEO of Vignette, to head its software business, the latest move by the computer giant to bolster its management software offerings. The 46-year-old Hogan will begin his new position on Feb. 20 and will be replacing Nora Denzel, who stepped down in December for personal reasons. Hogan will be…
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Microsoft Live Lab Pursues Net Research Trend
Watch out, academics, the Internet’s mighty portals are after your brain power. The latest of these one-stop shops of free Internet services on campus is Microsoft, operator of the MSN and Live.com Internet destinations. Microsoft has begun taking applications for a total of $500,000 in academic research funding, enough for a dozen or so projects.…
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IBM Acquires Virtualization Software Company CIMS Lab
IBM is growing its virtualization capabilities with the acquisition of CIMS Lab, a private company whose software enables businesses to track the use of their IT resources in a virtualized environment. IBM announced the acquisition Jan. 25. No financial details were released. The deal comes at a time when IBM can virtualize about 80 percent…
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Industry Leaders Question Microsoft’s Source Code Move
Microsoft’s decision to license all the Windows Server source code that applies to the antitrust requirements set out in the European Commission judgment against it has received a lukewarm response at best from competitors and trade groups. “With today’s announcement, Microsoft has supplemented the existing resources with a new license for all of the Windows…
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Intel Gets on Its Way to 45 Nanometers
Intel said it has reached an important milestone on the path to rolling out the next generation of chip manufacturing in 2007. The chip giant said on Jan. 25 that it has completed a test chip using its forthcoming 45-nanometer process, dubbed P1266, which it expects to roll out in the second half of 2007.…
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Intel Drops Hardware-Based 32-Bit Capabilties in Itanium
Intel Corp. is removing the hardware circuitry in the upcoming next-generation Itanium 2 chip that lets users run 32-bit applications on the 64-bit processor, leaving those duties to the chip maker’s emulation software. The dual-core “Montecito” chip will be the first Itanium processor not to offer the hardware circuitry, said Intel spokesperson Erica Fields. The…
