Capgemini Group and Microsoft have announced that they will extend their longtime alliance with a new agreement and enlist the services of the Sogeti Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Capgemini and a premier IT services provider.

ComponentOne and DiscountASP.NET have again partnered to provide ASP.NET developers with the leading suite of ASP.NET AJAX ready components for building next-generation Web interfaces. The company announced today that ComponentOne's award winning UI components, ...

Microsoft has announced that the Get Net Safe tour, designed to help people learn how to become more safe and secure on the Internet, will stop in Philadelphia for several days. The multiple-stop tour, with events Oct. 17-19 in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, ...

Santander Banespa has announced that it has selected a pair of IBM System z9 mainframes to increase its processing capacity, transaction speed and information integrity assurance. The investment amounted to approximately $21 million USD.

IBM has announced that just two months after its launch, the DB2 9 data server is rapidly gaining new customers and setting industry benchmark performance records. DB2 9?code named 'Viper'is IBM's new data server that incorporates the most significant database tec...

IBM has unveiled details of the next-generation Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) data server-code-named 'Cheetah' IDS, a key element of IBM's Information Management portfolio, is a relational data server that delivers exceptionally fast OLTP performance, high rel...

IBM has announced that Worldspan, a global travel technology company and the supplier of Internet-based travel offerings, has selected six new System z9 Enterprise Class (EC) mainframe servers to provide electronic data services that link approximately 700 travel ...

Microsoft has announced it has acquired privately owned Colloquis, a provider of conversational online business solutions that feature natural language-processing technology. Microsoft will offer services based on Colloquis technology to businesses with online o...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is on track to deliver Windows Vista for worldwide availability to its volume license business customers in November and worldwide general availability in January. The company also confirmed that it would be releasing Windows Vista ...

IBM has announced a new version of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino designed to help businesses take advantage of advances in hardware and Internet technologies. Major portability and productivity benefits include the ability to carry email, Lotus Notes applications, an...

Microsoft and Pharos Science & Applications have unveiled a sleek new Global Positioning System (GPS) locator that will ship as part of MicrosoftStreets & Trips 2007 with GPS Locator Supplied by Pharos. The new SiRFstarIII GPS locator is more than 10 times more se...

WebOrb for Rails, a server-side technology - installed as a Rails plug-in - enabling connectivity between Flex and Flash Remoting clients and Ruby on Rails applications, has caught the interest of many. So much so that in blogs developers are wondering why the com...

Playing to the card the European Commission has dealt it Symantec has been accusing Microsoft to the press - without suing or filing a formal complaint but within hearing of the regulators - of abusing its monopoly by locking it out of Vista and not giving it the ...

Ousted Novell chairman and CEO Jack Messman, who was supposed to remain on the Novell board until October 31, has stepped down early, according to an 8-K that the company filed with the SEC on Tuesday. The filing offers no explanation why Messman is vacating the ...

The 4.0 release of DotImage premieres the DotImage Advanced Document Cleanup (ADC) and Advanced Photo Effects (APE) Modules. The Advanced Document Cleanup (ADC) Module is an add-on providing the ability to automatically remove specks and borders for improved image...

Apple the other day started pushing out a preview version of its sixth-generation operating system, Leopard, otherwise known as Mac OS X 10.5, to developers under non-disclosure expecting them to keep mum about a number of tantalizing new features that Apple cla...

A top Detroit legal firm has selected Compuware Vantage to monitor its Exchange servers. The Compuware solution was up and running within a day, and almost immediately the IT staff received its first alert about a potential performance problem on the network. 'We ...

Fiorano Software, provider of SOA platform and enterprise middleware solutions, announced the release of a native, fully-managed .NET runtime for its Enterprise Service Bus and SOA platforms. With this release, Fiorano becomes the only ESB to provide native suppor...

'Unified communications (UC) ? the term we use to describe the convergence of all forms of business communications into a single, intelligent and intuitive experience ? is a long-term initiative for Microsoft that will involve waves of new products, services and p...

Winternals was established in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, who are recognized industry leaders in the areas of operating system design and architecture. Russinovich will join the Microsoft Platforms & Services Division as a technical fellow, workin...

EC antitrust chief Neelie Kroes suggested Wednesday that making Vista comply with the EC 2004 antitrust decisions was one of the reasons why Microsoft pushed Vista's launch into 2007. Apparently Microsoft is making some changes based on a letter Kroes sent Microso...

Microsoft expects a complete version of the 'bi-directional' Word translator by the end of the year, with add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint next year sometime. The 'free downloadable add-in' will cover the recently - and yet again - delayed Office 2007, which will ...

'The Atlas features of ASP.NET are not just another AJAX script library for writing client-centric Web applications,' writes Matt Gibbs in the current issue of MSDN Magazine Online. 'Atlas builds on the .NET Framework 2.0 and adds support for better utilizing the ...

'Group 1 is a leader in geocoding and high-definition data solutions, and we're very excited about this announcement to fully leverage the Microsoft .NET technology,' said Stephen Lawler, general manager, Microsoft Virtual Earth Business Unit. 'By working togeth...

'I could go through the history of how we got here; just count on it, we will never have this kind of gap again. But what we have is absolutely a phenomenal set of products, and frankly really together the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts.'

Microsoft has announced plans to roll out Office Live internationally and release a new Microsoft Office Live Developer Guide, which supports partners in extending the Microsoft Office Live platform. Microsoft Office Live, currently available in beta form in the U...

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference conference includes three days of keynote presentations by Microsoft executives and industry experts, product- and service-specific sessions, and opportunities for structured and unstructured networking with other Mic...

Microsoft, as previously announed and as expected, has ended its support of Windows 98. The company had tried to do this two years ago, but the apparent threat from Linux caused it to rethink its original intentions. Now that Win 98 support is officially gone, wil...

Microsoft's current plan was to begin releasing Windows Vista to business customers in November, with a general release scheduled for January. Bill Gates was recently quoted as saying there's an 80 percent chance this will happen, and Steve Ballmer has said there ...

SBS 2003 R2 serves as a key foundation with which partners have the opportunity to attract new customers and deepen existing customer relationships by providing an integrated, affordable platform on which to build a profitable business, Microsoft says. Windows S...

Microsoft Business Solutions is bolstering the offerings partners can provide to customers with two new products: Dynamics AX 4.0, launched last month at Tech-Ed 2006, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live, which is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2007 in North America.

BlueWhale's Beta Program has been designed to solicit user feedback on the features and functionality of BlueWhaleCRM. The BETA of BlueWhaleCRM is for the upcoming release of BlueWhaleCRM 3.0.

Microsoft and Motorola have announced a multiyear joint marketing and development alliance to deliver unified communications solutions using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 across Motorola mobile devices and network hardware. The collaboration is inten...

IBM and Thomas Cook, a travel group, have signed a contract to develop a new IT platform. In terms of the agreement, IBM business consultants will provide industry expertise and integration knowledge to help Thomas Cook become more efficient, more flexible and res...

Microsoft has announced a try it before you buy it program allowing people to take an online test-drive of the 2007 Microsoft Office system release. With more than 2.5 million people already using the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2 since its release last mont...

Microsoft has released an updated WGA Notifications package. With this update, the pilot phase of WGA Notifications is complete, and the program will continue with a phased roll-out to Windows XP users worldwide. All English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutc...

Today at the Open Source Business Conference in London, Microsoft has unveiled CodePlex, an online collaborative software development portal that is also a vehicle for sharing source code. Microsoft CodePlex is already home to more than 30 collaborative developmen...

HP has introduced the fastest blade system solution for high-performance computing, which will be on display at this week's International Supercomputing Conference. The HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure features the world's fastest midplane at 5 terabytes per sec...

IBM has announced that it will extend the reach of its upcoming Lotus Sametime 7.5 collaboration platform -- the instant messaging software for enterprise customers -- by providing integration with Microsoft Outlook, Office and SharePoint applications. In additi...

Microsoft and HP have announced a joint effort focused on accelerating the transformation of telephony, audio-, video- and web conferencing, and instant messaging into a single unified communications platform. Under this initiative, highlighted at a strategy event...