Stephen Lawson

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PeopleSoft expands Oracle lawsuit

Continuing its efforts to block Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft Inc. has added more allegations to its lawsuit against the database software maker, PeopleSoft announced Tuesday.

NEC and Motorola team on wireless voice and data

Motorola Inc. and NEC America Inc. are teaming up to offer an infrastructure that lets enterprise employees use one wireless phone with one number both in the office and while on the road, enjoying corporate calling features such as dialing by extension.

Sprint to offer network of Wi-Fi hot spots

Sprint PCS Group will build Wi-Fi wireless LAN hot spots and create roaming agreements with other service providers to provide high-speed local wireless data access in more than 2,100 U.S. locations by the end of this year, the mobile operator announced Monday.

Microsoft releases Speech Server beta

Microsoft Corp. this week moved toward the integration of call centres and the Web with the release of the first public beta of its Microsoft Speech Server and a new beta version of its Speech Application Software Development Kit (SDK).

NetScreen puts IPv6 in firewall beta

Makers of network security gear are lining up to help enterprises and service providers implement Internet Protocol version six (IPv6), the next-generation network layer protocol for the Internet that offers a vastly larger number of host addresses.

IEEE approves 802.11g standard

A long-awaited standard for wireless LANs that offers more carrying capacity than the current IEEE 802.11b specification while using the same frequencies won final approval Thursday morning.A long-awaited standard for wireless LANs that offers more carrying capacity than the current IEEE 802.11b specification while using the same frequencies won final approval Thursday morning.

Cisco wins narrow ruling against Huawei

A U.S. federal judge Friday temporarily blocked Chinese router vendor Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and two related companies from distributing software and user manuals related to Cisco Systems Inc. software or having employees familiar with that software develop similar products.

JAVAONE: Palm teams up with IBM for Java apps

Enterprise Java applications will be able to run directly on Palm Inc. Tungsten handhelds now that Palm has licensed IBM Corp.'s WebSphere Micro Environment (WME) Java run-time environment, the companies announced Monday.

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