Expecting to gain significant first-mover advantage, Witness Systems acquires Blue Pumpkin, an action that will quickly alter the competitive landscape of the emerging sub-market for contact center workforce optimization applications. ...

With its win at KPN, Siemens suddenly jumps to the front of the pack in the race to assemble a product portfolio that will enable service providers to deliver applications ...

Sterling Commerce/SBC purchased supply chain vendor Yantra for $170 million. That is a hefty price tag, but Yantra is one of the few growing players in this sector and ...

The CRM market leader looks to provide customers with a better way to automate requests about billing and account management through self-service. The deal provides a cost-effective way to ...

Sprint and Nextel have merged in order to benefit from their respective consumer and business focuses. Although the new carrier will be stronger in the long run, technology differences ...

In a bold and sweeping move, Symantec has acquired storage management leader VERITAS. Symantec has made it clear that the security market wasn't big enough for its designs, and ...

3Com dives into the IPS market headfirst with the acquisition of TippingPoint. The move offers channel benefits to TippingPoint, but 3Com is paying a king's ransom for access to ...

Although down, Vitria is not yet out. Its new release of BusinessWare builds on technology differentiators the firm has in development, utilizes workflow and exception handling, and adds faster XML ...

NexTone continues to deconstruct the role of the session border controller. By introducing the Real-time Session Manager (RSM), NexTone is extending its SBC technology into the session control layer of ...

Huawei took a major step forward by announcing contract wins in both the U.S. and Western Europe. While this signals its graduation to competition in Tier 1 markets, the vendor's ...

Oracle's next version of its application server includes some fairly cutting edge integration-related features, particularly in BAM, master data management or data hub, and complex event processing. Competitors will ...

Nextel and RIM join forces to work toward location-based services for the BlackBerry. Nextel hopes to retain its LBS leadership position, but launching the BlackBerry 7520 before software is ...

MCI, which already offered managed LAN services to its largest customers on a custom basis, is commercializing them and making them available to all comers. Even if the uptake ...

Through long-term infrastructure contracts, Sprint has reiterated its commitment to 3G technology deployment. This announcement reconfirms that Sprint is not only on track with EV-DO, but is also moving towards ...

BEA loads up the next version of its application server, code-named Diablo, with a host of solid availability and management features. Although this market has become mature, Diablo forms ...

Hewlett-Packard has released a series of fixed-configuration 10 GigE aggregation switches with full Layer 3 functionality at a price that will put a cramp in competitors' styles. ...

Infonet enhances its managed security services with several new firewall options. It is a necessary move for it to keep up with its competitive brethren, adding elements such as ...

Juniper finally delivers on its solution to scale the T640 to a multi-chassis configuration, supporting the interconnection of four T640s with performance levels of 1.2 Terabits of non-blocking throughput. ...

AirTight launched its SpectraGuard 2.0 WLAN security solution. This is an ideal technology for enterprise WLAN providers that haven't developed their own RF and rogue management, monitoring, and planning ...

Cisco's latest enterprise switching portfolio update yields greater solution completion in both modular and fixed configuration product lines and enables Cisco to maintain a competitive advantage by facing the latest ...