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After working in stealth mode for five years, Patrick Grady recently took the wraps off his company’s efforts to build an e-commerce platform that...

Obsolete, redundant and unused applications cost companies billions of dollars each year in unnecessary IT spending, new research suggests.

The startup founded by former BEA Systems Inc. chief executive Bill Coleman and a dream team assembled from Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. executives is expected next week to unveil its first product: software that's designed to let users manage multiple Linux and Windows servers as if they were a single system.

According to one tally, businesses will lose US$2.6 billion to online fraud in 2004

PeopleSoft Inc. last week unveiled sales-force automation software designed to let mobile users access customer relationship management data with the same device many road warriors already use for wireless e-mail.

Systemcorp's Web-based PMOffice suite combines document management and workflow tools with project activity tracking features so team members can collaborate, report on and monitor project costs, progress and performance.

Voice technology is making its way into more mainstream uses thanks to standards-based technologies displacing expensive, proprietary platforms. One of those applications is...

While many companies have the technology in place to handle electronic payments, the majority of business deals still depend on paper cheques. But that may be changing as enterprises look to overhaul inefficient financial processes, industry watchers say.