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Oracle bumped up its bid to acquire Retek late yesterday, in the second round of its battle with SAP for the retail applications developer. The move was expected, but the new offer, US$11.25 per share to SAP's $11, was lower than the $12 Gartner analyst Andrew White predicted yesterday. At the new h...

SAP took another shot in its battle with Oracle, raising to $11 a share its bid for Retek. SAP had been set to buy the retail applications provider for $8.50 a share, then Oracle countered at $9. The war, however, is far from over, analysts say. "I would be surprised if Oracle didn't go through anot...

Software developer SAP and chip designer Intel said today at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, that they would collaborate on technology to allow companies to integrate data collected from RFID chips. "The announcement provides additional evidence that RFID is real and is moving from being ...

Oracle, never a company to shy from head-on competition, announced today that it would outbid rival SAP in its attempt to buy software maker Retek, offering $9 per share. SAP had agreed last week to pay $8.50 a share. Oracle's offer bumps the bid for the retail applications provider from $496 millio...

Call centers that rely on VoIP without proper security measures could find themselves facing degraded quality of service, slowdowns, or no service at all. In addition, insecure lines could lead to information theft, leaving a call center liable.

Social networking software and Web-based tools have proliferated in the past few years. These networks operate by creating a tree of contacts beginning with the user, followed by the friends and associates she or he extends an invitation to, the friends they extend an invitation to, and so on. The c...

Storage giant EMC today announced updates of two backup products, days after it went on the attack, beginning a campaign -- "Safe Switch" -- to lure customers from its rival and the leader in the backup software market, Veritas. EMC has released Legato NetWorker 7.2 and Dantz Retrospect 7 for Window...

Having gobbled up JD Edwards and PeopleSoft, Oracle yesterday held a coming out party for "Project Fusion," its plan to meld the products of the three companies and hold onto the customer base for which it paid $10.5 billion. "The big news is that Oracle is not forcing customers to migrate," Evan Qu...

Oracle today officially released the mobile version of its grid computing database, 10g. A version of Database Lite 10g has been in use since 1996 as a means of accessing the main 10g database through PDAs, laptops and handheld computers. The company says its new release is a giant step ahead of the...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has won again, this time after an acrimonious,18-month-long battle with PeopleSoft, whose board of directors bowed today and agreed to a $10.3 billion takeover offer. In October, Oracle made what it called its "best and final offer" of $24 a share. The company then raised th...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled network management software developed from tools it acquired when it bought Novadigm and Consera Software earlier this year. OpenView Automation Manager is part of HP's plan to build a set of individually available components as a replacement for the unwieldy Utili...

Oracle today announced a quarterly schedule of security bulletins and patch releases for 2005 that is "a bit of a tradeoff," according to one analyst. "I fully understand why Oracle would want to use a timed release-cycle, but I'm not sure what the reason is for their decision to move away from the ...

The move to add tiny radio antennas on shipments of pharmaceuticals will not be enough to prevent counterfeiting and tampering, analysts said. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and several drug makers announced they would be putting RFID-tagged labels on medicine bottles beginning with the impo...

Don't breath a sigh of relief yet. Although PeopleSoft's board announced today it unanimously rejected Oracle's "best and final" offer of $24 a share, it ain't over till it's over, and it ain't over. The takeover bid is now in the hands of PeopleSoft's shareholders, who must decide by Nov. 19 wheth...

Intermec Technologies has cleared the path for retail companies to test second-generation radio-frequency identification (RFID) products and move toward wide-scale adoption. The company will suspend for 60 days its intellectual property licenses to stimulate RFID manufacturers to create and test sys...

Finally, there's an end in sight. PeopleSoft stockholders have until Nov. 19 to tender their stock for Larry Ellison's "best and final offer" of $24 a share -- cash -- or $9.2 billion for the whole enchilada. If they don't, Ellison has promised to call it quits, something the multibillionaire mogul ...

SAP and Hewlett-Packard announced today they will jointly offer a business management tool that they say brings enterprise-level best practices to small and medium-size businesses. The hosted software will be priced on a per-user basis, starting at $325 per month. SAP's software will sit on top of H...