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  • RFID gets manufacturing push from IBM

    IBM on Tuesday announced two new sets of radio frequency identification services, targeting companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, as well as midsize retail suppliers.

  • Tech bosses slam 'IT doesn't matter' bad boy

    Executives from IBM and Microsoft on Monday attacked the beliefs of Nicholas Carr, the consultant who became a technology industry bad boy when the Harvard Business Review published an article he wrote titled, "IT Doesn't Matter."

  • Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pacts

    Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.

  • IBM tags new RFID services

    IBM expanded its presence in the market for radio frequency identification on Monday with the introduction of services to help companies adopt the supply-chain management tool.

  • Supply chain reaction

    In the irrepressibly optimistic late-'90s, even Lou Gerstner briefly suspended his traditional scepticism to reveal an inner techno-utopian.

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  • SuSE widens scope for desktop Linux

    The software maker introduces a version of Linux aimed at enterprise customers, hoping to move the open-source software beyond servers and low-cost PCs.

  • RFID tags: The people say no

    CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.

  • HP developing 'smart rack' to ease data centre work

    Business executives and bureaucrats are salivating over the potential labour-saving benefits of radio frequency identification technology, and soon technology workers may find reason to be enthusiastic, too.

  • With RFID, corporate might makes right

    Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.

  • Sun's novel idea

    Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.

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