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BMC Software Inc. Monday announced it has upgraded its mainframe management software to give bandwidth and capacity priority to mission-critical IP applications in those environments.

PeopleSoft Inc. at press time was poised to unveil a set of applications designed to help users streamline their supply chain operations, as part of the software vendor's continuing effort to boost its standing among manufacturers.

Your trash could be someone else's treasure, but chances are it's just plain junk. So instead of renting a dumpster or spending a Saturday making dump trips, customers of 1-800-Got-Junk are using the Web to throw away their unwanted stuff.

Undertaking an enterprise access management project can be so complicated that the IT manager might be hard pressed to remember his own name at the end of it all. But NetScreen Technologies Inc. says its new Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) platform could help corporate technology leaders maintain their sanity.

Gateway gobbles eMachinesGateway Inc. plans to acquire eMachines Inc. for about US$200 million to increase its shrinking PC revenue while it pursues the consumer...

In dynamic e-business environments, companies want to respond rapidly and effectively to events rather than be overtaken by them. Forward-looking companies design their distributed...

The idea behind the IEEE's Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, which delivers in-line power to networked devices over unshielded twisted-pair cabling, isn't new.

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