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For the most part, major IT vendors fared well this earnings season. Intel, Microsoft and Apple are just some of the companies reporting their highest quarterly revenue numbers ever. According to a Read more...

The Standish Group says 29 percent of all IT projects are never completed successfully, often because CIO's don't follow standard management processes, don't have the right staff, don't properly Read more...

Efforts by Microsoft and Yahoo to negotiate a merger agreement have stalled, with the two companies not even talking. But Microsoft this week could raise its bid by as much as $2 to $33 a share to Read more...

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Companies are losing customers because they are doing a poor job of resolving IT issues and neglecting to tailor IT-enabled business services to meet customer requirements. These findings, from a Read more...

When you think of customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning, it's more than likely the names Oracle and SAP come to mind. But there's actually a little-known software Read more...

Network Access Control (NAC) technologies have long been considered a good security approach, but as hackers will prove at an upcoming industry conference, NAC is easy to breach--each and every Read more...

Nortel Networks is trimming costs on both sides of the aisle--cutting about 1,000 jobs and trimming business operations costs such as pension-plan contributions. Yet at the same time, the Read more...

Think SAP and you likely get visions of huge corporations plopping down intricate and heavy duty software engines for supply chain management and other business functions. But the software vendor Read more...