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Upgrades to Entigo Corp.s online selling and service management software will reduce the time it takes to get products to dealers and distributors and increase customer management efficiency, company officials said. The Pittsburgh-based company will roll out Version 2.0 of its Order, Catalog and Warranty applications this week. Order 2.0 and Catalog 2.0 both have […]

Desktop accounting veterans Intuit Inc. and Peachtree Software Inc. are focusing new products around a hosting model, hoping to close a technology gap created this year by newcomers such as NetLedger Inc. and other Web-based services. Intuit this month announced QuickBooks for the Web, which is designed “for people who think General Ledger was a […]

HP Ranks High for Women Hewlett-Packard and Lucent were among four high-tech companies listed as good places for women who have executive-level hopes. In its annual survey, WorkingWoman.com also ranked IBM and SBC Communications in the top 25 companies for women. Criteria included the number of women in management and mentorship programs for women. Companies […]

Retaking Control At Ford Ford Motor Co. two years ago decided it had better things to do than host Web servers. So, like most major global enterprises, Ford outsourced most server operations to Web hosting service providers. Now the automotive giant is having second thoughts. In fact, Director of IT Services George Surdu said recently, […]

Ariba Inc. has released the newest version of its Ariba Sourcing product, which offers buyers complete RFQ (request for quotation) and supplier sourcing capabilities. With the RFQ process automated, buyers can save time and money on their procurement efforts, said officials at the Mountain View, Calif., company. Ariba Sourcing gives users access to such RFQ […]

Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. is peddling a new visual way to navigate the Web with two- and three-dimensional maps of Web sites that, it says, is more intuitive than the lists generated by standard search engines. Visual Net, unveiled last month, is the flagship service of Antarcti.ca, a privately held company founded last year by XML […]

As the year comes to a close, major computer makers are stinging from the sharp slowdown in PC sales, a trend that fueled a flurry of warnings over the past couple of months and dealt hard body blows to already-struggling stock markets. The downturn is expected to continue into the first quarter of next year, […]

Seeking to feed a perceived need for speed, Intel Corp. and IBM last week touted microprocessor advances that will result in chips that are capable of setting new speed records. At the International Electronic Device Manufacturers show in San Francisco, Intel, of Santa Clara, Calif., announced its success in producing smaller transistors to fuel faster […]

Dell computer corp. is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to moving beyond its dependence on PC revenue. Last week, the company announced several new servers—including a 32-processor system manufactured by Unisys Corp.—and rolled out enhanced consulting and management services. The announcements by Dell officials at a New York press conference […]

The Internet Speaks Voice over ip will begin to come in loud and clear over the next five years, says a recent survey of 162 network engineers and other VOIP experts. In fact, 91 percent of survey respondents said that 15 percent to 20 percent of all voice traffic will run over data networks—including the […]