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Laurie Sullivan
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PeopleSoft Founder Duffield Takes The Wraps Off His New Company, Workday
InformationWeek, November 06, 2006
Building off the Salesforce.com model, Workday aims to provide business software as a service.

Wal-Mart Takes Its Lumps Online, But Charges Ahead With Refreshed Site
InformationWeek, October 30, 2006
The new site, 13 months in the making, arrives in time for the holiday season.

T-Mobile Plans Major Cellular Upgrade To 3G
InformationWeek, October 16, 2006
After spending billions to buy additional radio spectrum, the No. 4 cellular carrier plans to revamp its network to better compete with larger rivals

Brief: Nokia Snatches Up Mapping Software Firm
InformationWeek, September 04, 2006
The acquisition will make it easier for Nokia to offer customers maps, routing, and navigation software on mobile phones.

SOA Repository Simplifies Business Process Development
InformationWeek, July 24, 2006
Fujitsu Computer Systems and Software AG help companies organize metadata and more easily share processes.

Yahoo, Microsoft Test IM Plan
InformationWeek, July 17, 2006
Together, the two have an instant messaging user base that outranks AOL.

Firm To Debut Off-The-Shelf Social Networking Software
InformationWeek, July 17, 2006
Facesinabox.com is designed to help business managers use keywords to locate staff members with specific skills or experiences, based on profile information.

Students Develop Sensor Network To Monitor Forest
InformationWeek, July 10, 2006
The network, which won first prize in a Microsoft competition, can sense humidity, sound, temperature, carbon monoxide levels, and tree poachers.

Riya's Photo-Search Engine Could Find Your Likeness Online
InformationWeek, June 19, 2006
The technology breaks images into complex mathematical equations to find similar faces and objects.

Mobile Phone Makers Turn To Linux
InformationWeek, June 19, 2006
Looking to avoid license fees for an operating system, some makers of smart phones and pocket PCs are developing a new version of Linux.

Dow Brings GPS, RFID Together In Supply Chain Management
InformationWeek, June 12, 2006
The chemical company has begun a 10-year program to deploy cutting-edge technologies that will help it track vehicles and items in its vast supply chain.

NASA Upgrades Web Site To Help Workers Cope With Natural Disasters
InformationWeek, May 29, 2006
The InsideNASA intranet helps employees at 11 facilities with information on office closings, evacuation procedures, and threats

RFID Backers Lay The Privacy Groundwork For Item-Level Tags
InformationWeek, May 08, 2006
Few retailers have big plans in the works to tag individual products. But they're taking the privacy fears seriously.

SAP-Microsoft Link Due
InformationWeek, April 24, 2006

Laszlo Tries To Tame The Ajax Beast
InformationWeek, March 13, 2006
OpenLaszlo will deliver applications in Flash or Dynamic HTML

Touch Once For Groceries
InformationWeek, February 13, 2006
Supermarket chain launches biometric fingerprint system to speed customers through checkout lines

Watch Sundance And Stay Warm
InformationWeek, January 30, 2006
Some 50 short films are available for viewing on the festival's upgraded Web site

Hey, Wal-Mart, A New Case Of Pampers Is On The Way
InformationWeek, January 23, 2006

E-Passports Get New Port Of Call
InformationWeek, January 09, 2006
San Francisco airport to test RFID-chipped documents

SAP Charts Development Plan
InformationWeek, December 12, 2005
Cooperation with Microsoft and Intel are on the agenda.

RFID Feeds The Meter
InformationWeek, December 12, 2005
Drivers in some cities can use their cell phones to pay parking meters. Now comes RFID as the next convenience.

RFID Rolls Into NASCAR Races
InformationWeek, November 28, 2005
Goodyear will provide to racing teams tires that have RFID devices embedded into the sidewalls.

SAP's Architecture Shift
InformationWeek, November 14, 2005
Software vendor plows ahead on its Web-services approach with good results, but its efforts are far from complete

High And Inside (A Phone)
InformationWeek, October 31, 2005

Smart Streets, Smooth Traffic
InformationWeek, October 31, 2005
Cameras, sensors, and a Web-based network will ease traffic flow around a planned Bay Area Ikea store

This Guy's One Hot Property
InformationWeek, October 24, 2005
Equity Office Properties' tech chief wants to leverage the company's size and scale to give its IT operations as much credibility as its business operations.

Wal-Mart Brings The RFID Proof
InformationWeek, October 17, 2005

Best Buy's Spin On RFID
InformationWeek, October 17, 2005
Best Buy is just months away from using tags on some shipments to improve its supply chain and customer service

Wal-Mart RFID Trial Shows 16% Reduction In Product Stock-Outs
InformationWeek, October 14, 2005
Study also shows that RFID-equipped stores were 63% more effective in replenishing out-of-stock merchandise compared to stores without the technology.

Consumer Group Calls For RFID Protest At Dallas Wal-Mart
InformationWeek, October 14, 2005
Study results due this week are expected to show that RFID helps reduce out-of-stock problems at Wal-Mart stores.

Coppola Brings Art To Wal-Mart
InformationWeek, October 10, 2005
In-store televisions to show high-definition digital video portraits of everyday Americans.

The Rebirth Of 3-D
InformationWeek, October 10, 2005

Eye On You: Privacy Is Still An Issue
InformationWeek, October 10, 2005

RFID Implementation Challenges Persist, All This Time Later
InformationWeek, October 10, 2005
Sure, RFID is useful--but problems and costs associated with it continue to cause frustration, even among true believers

Oracle Makes Good On Pledge
InformationWeek, October 10, 2005
Vendor says series of upgrades show it's committed to PeopleSoft apps

PlasterCity Gets High-Tech Digital Digs
InformationWeek, October 06, 2005
New Hollywood film post-production facilty pushes the envelope in leveraging information technology.

Oracle's 8.9 Leap To Fusion
InformationWeek, October 05, 2005
New release of PeopleSoft applications aimed at keeping PeopleSoft users in Oracle's camp.

Deltek Acquires Wind2 As Application Industry Consolidation Continues
InformationWeek, October 04, 2005
Move expands Deltek's customer base with small engineering and architecture firms.

3-D Movies Piggyback On Digital-Cinema Supply Chain
InformationWeek, October 03, 2005
But does it mark a major advance in film technology, or is it just the next "Sensurround"?

FEMA's Foul-up
InformationWeek, October 03, 2005
Report says agency's computer systems failed to track supplies during last year's hurricane season.

Eight People Charged With 'Star Wars' Piracy
InformationWeek, September 27, 2005
They're accused of taking Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith from a post-production facility and posting it to the Internet.

Wal-Mart: Lessons Of The Storm
InformationWeek, September 26, 2005

RFID Standards Advance
InformationWeek, September 26, 2005

New Standard Advances Value Of RFID
InformationWeek, September 22, 2005
EPCglobal's royalty-free Application Level Events standard defines the process to collect, manage, and route data that Electronic Product Code technology generates in the supply chain.

CIOs Say Customer Data-Sharing Is Ongoing Struggle
InformationWeek, September 21, 2005
Gill Hoffman, senior VP and CIO at Maritz Inc., told InformationWeek conference attendees that the company recently hired someone to set up customer-data-sharing processes.

Oracle Buys G-Log, Its 10th Acquisition In A Year
InformationWeek, September 20, 2005
Oracle bought G-Log for its logistics software, an area where it sees strong market growth, says Oracle VP Fred Studer.

Wal-Mart CIO: Hurricane Charlie Paved Way For Katrina Response
InformationWeek, September 19, 2005
Wal-Mart applied lessons learned from past disasters for its reaction to Hurricane Katrina. But it still needed to improvise.

RFID's Impact On The Supply Chain Is A Waiting Game
InformationWeek, September 19, 2005
Companies are eager to move beyond the basics to improve processes.

You Can't Plan For Everything
InformationWeek, September 19, 2005

Tight Budgets Mean Selective Strategy
InformationWeek, September 19, 2005
Technology helps retailers understand customers better, fight fraud, and speed the inventory process.

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