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webMethods Inc., the leading provider of XML-based business-to-business e-commerce and integration solutions, has announced its support for Commerce XML (cXML), an open XML-based standard created to facilitate e-commerce within trading communities. This move aligns webMethods with 40 leading companies, including Ariba Technologies, in the development of cXML, a suite of
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webMethods, Inc., a leading provider of XML-based business-to-business e-commerce and integration solutions, has announced its support for Commerce XML (cXML), an open XML-based standard aimed at facilitating e-commerce within trading communities. webMethods joins 40 leading companies, including Ariba Technologies, in the development of cXML, a suite of lightweight XML Document
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Acxiom Corporation has integrated Sedona SpatialVision, a geo-spatially enhanced data visualization tool, into their Solvitur CIMS 8.0 suite of products. This partnership aims to provide financial services customers with a competitive advantage by optimizing the return on information investment. Sedona SpatialVision will enable customers to ask complex database questions
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Oracle Corporation, the world's leading supplier of software for information management, has announced that it will be offering a free early access CD to the first 50,000 registrants of Oracle8i, the world's first Internet database. This special offer is made possible through Oracle Technology Network
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Regulatory approvals cleared the path for the $43.5 billion AT&T-TCI merger, potentially opening local phone markets to competition. Meanwhile, major corporations like BP Amoco and H.J. Heinz Co. announced significant job cuts in response to industry downturns. The Allied Pilots Association faced a federal judge'
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America Online, Inc. has announced that Marc Andreessen, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Netscape Communications Corporation, will become America Online's Chief Technology Officer upon the close of the company's acquisition of Netscape. This development is seen as a major step in ensuring the company'
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Netscape Communications Corporation's high-performance, highly scalable web server software is now available on IBM's AS/400 business computer, making it easier for businesses to deploy large-scale web sites. I/NET, a pioneer in AS/400 server software products, is offering Netscape Enterprise Server through its licensing
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Nextel Communications, along with Motorola, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, and Unwired Planet, announced the launch of Nextel Online, a family of wireless Internet services that combine the power of the Internet with Nextel's unique digital two-way radio feature, Nextel Direct Connect. This innovative service enables mobile users to
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McDonald's has announced an initiative to purchase up to 500,000 pounds of Indiana-produced pork over the next seven weeks to help local farmers struggling with depressed pork prices. This move comes as a response to the current market prices, which have fallen dramatically, affecting hog farmers across
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As the antitrust trial between Microsoft and the Justice Department continues, the company's defense that its Internet browser is a component of Windows and not a separate product has been called into question. In a patent filing from 1998, Microsoft's lawyers wrote that a Web browser
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America Online Inc. reported its fiscal second quarter results for 1999, ending December 31, 1998, which set new records in total revenues, advertising, commerce, and other revenues, net income, and membership growth. The company's net income totaled $88 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, on a fully
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The Justice Department's lead lawyer, David Boies, clashed with Paul Maritz, a Microsoft group vice president, in a cross-examination that centered around the company's deal with Apple Computer Inc. The Government accused Microsoft of using its market power as a "club" in its dealings
