SAP, the world's leading marketer of business software, has outbid arch rival Oracle for a contract from the French government to harmonise its budget and accounting software.
 
A source close to the company provided AFP with the same information that was given in the French financial daily Les Echos.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Nine months after analysts wondered if the AT&T logo would go away, the revamped SBC Communications/AT&T on Sunday (March 5) made a $67 billion stock offer for BellSouth Corp.

If approved, the deal will bring back a significant portion of the national footprint of the pre-divestiture AT&T, at

Symantec's out-of-court settlement with an adware maker is a loss for users, an anti-spyware researcher said this week.

Friday, Feb. 24, the Cupertino, Calif. security company announced that it had dismissed its lawsuit against browser and e-mail toolbar maker Hotbar.com, Inc. Last June, Symantec filed a zero-dollar suit against the New York

Raritan announced this week CommandCenter NOC (CC-NOC), a management appliance that monitors, notifies, and reports on key aspects of an organization's IT health.

Featuring a dashboard that is accessed through an Internet browser, the CC-NOC appliance delivers information on network and systems performance, hardware and software assets, as well as security vulnerabilities.

DUBLIN, Ireland — Even as speakers at the DVB World Forum here this week expressed optimism about the worldwide adoption of the DVB-H standard for mobile TV networks, they were busy assembling a long list of possible booby traps, both obvious – such as the chronic shortage of spectrum bands – and seemingly trivial,

Mpire Corp. will launch in March a mobile search application to help sellers determine the correct day, time and price to sell their products on eBay Inc.
 
With a similar tool introduced in January from Mpire, the eBay community gained Mpulse, a resource to monitor up-to-the-minute listing trends for items

South Korean electronics giant Samsung will unveil its new portable music player on Sunday in a direct challenge to the now iconic iPod, one of the world's best-selling products from US rival Apple.
 
Samsung's new flash memory MP3 player, called the YP-Z5, will be released first in the United States

Sixty years after the end of World War II, a network of several thousand PCs has cracked a message enciphered with the famous Enigma machine.
The M4 Message Breaking Project, started by Stefan Krah, a German amateur cryptographer, in January, took on three messages intercepted by British code-breakers during WWII, but never

Despite the buzz being generated by its Origami Project, Microsoft plans to give it only brief mention at the upcoming CeBIT trade show, even though that event coincides with when the company has said it will offer more details. The project apparently involves a mobile PC running Windows XP, according to a Web site

Microsoft has acquired String Bean Software's WinTarget storage area networking technology and will add the software to its Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 product, Microsoft said Friday.

WinTarget is a software-based iSCSI storage area network technology that can be used to create a hybrid storage system that supports both file-level and block-level