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New research suggests that few large retailers are using AJAX technology on their Web sites, but at least a few companies using AJAX techniques to create interactive Web pages say they have been able to improve customer experience while avoiding prohibitive startup costs.

Read how one company upended every square foot of its warehouse operations -- its interior layout, day-to-day shipping and receiving practices, the equipment workers used and the IT systems enabling it all -- and reduced its warehouse labour costs by 30 percent, saving more than CDN$294,000 a year and vanquishing many inefficiencies that had plagued its operations.

Joining a growing list of digital video download service providers Wal-Mart Stores has launched an online movie store. The new offering is built on HP Video Merchant Services, a Web-shopping technology.

We talked to tech pros and came up with 12 ways you can boost your IT productivity, without investing tens of thousands of dollars, or six months of your life.

Stock in Dell Inc. was rising Monday on news that founder Michael Dell plans to remain as CEO for several years, trim the number of managers reporting directly to him and eliminate bonuses.

Good security info? No lack of it at RSA. What you need are clones or time. Barring more of either, you'd take a cheat sheet to which events seem most likely to give you the feeling that though you couldn't be everywhere at RSA, you were where you wanted to be. Here's what to expect, day by day.

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The virtualization concept has taken on a life of its own. Beyond the server, vendors are now touting products for virtualizing any and every layer of the infrastructure: Network, storage, desktop, application, database, user interface