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Reports on the sharing and collaboration between information technology companies and suppliers in the United States. Importance of partnership or collaboration for the business; Implementation of an information-sharing network by Quaker Chemical Co.; Solution for the complicated nature of business collaboration. INSETS: Weighing The Security Risks;How Healthy Is Your Relationship?;Napster-Like Networks May Be Peerless For Collaboration.

Focuses on the collaboration among automobile dealers in the U.S. Increase sales of automobile parts; Adoption of innovative business technology; Deployment of computer software.

Reports on the performance of the computer storage provider EMC Corp. in the U.S. Partnerships formed by the firm; Business plans of the company; Flexibility of the firm.

The article reports that Cingular Wireless LLC, a cellular service provider in the U.S. has led the market through a partnership with computer software vendor Firethorn Holdings LLC which will let Cingular customers pay bills, check balances, and transfer funds on their cellular phones. The application lies on a cellular phone and connects with Firethorn's servers, which then communicate with the banks' systems. Several banks have already planned the promotion of mobile banking to customers.

Reports on the partnership of Microsoft Corp. with technology providers to bolster the use of its infrastructure and office software in the U.S. Aim to work with product-life-cycle management efforts of manufacturing companies; Offering of automotive, chemical, consumer packaged-goods, high-technology and oil and gas manufacturers PLM; Companies involved in the partnership.

Focuses on the trend in information technology (IT) outsourcing deals in the United States, according to a study by Gartner. Increase in the number of smaller agreements focusing on specific business objectives; Opening up of the market for more vendors in 2004.

Focuses on the partnership formed by Northrop Grumman Corp. with the University of Maryland in Baltimore and Blueprint Technologies Inc. to develop a training program called the Object Academy. Limitation of the classes offered under the program; Benefit offered by object-oriented technology; Technologies used in the program.

The article offers information on the partnership between Cloudera Inc. and NetApp Inc., where NetApp will promote the distribution and enterprise management software Hadoop of Cloudera and Cloudera will use NetApp's storage reference architecture Open Solution for Hadoop. It is informed that Cloudera is one of the largest providers of Hadoop software in the U.S. and is likely to benefit more from the partnership. Both companies claim to have tested their software and hardware compatibilities.

The article discusses the importance of collaborations in the information technology (IT) industry to understand clearly the workflow of end users in the U.S. It underlines the survey conducted by Kelton Research LLC which revealed that 80 percent of more than 500 executives believed that collaboration is the key to success. It highlights another survey conducted by Corporate Executive Board Co. which revealed that Enterprise 2.0 technologies lags initial deployment.

The article reports that Harbinger Capital Partners LLC selected Nokia Siemens Networks BV to build and operate its projected Long Term Evolution (LTE) network dubbed LightSquared. It notes that LTE is a promising mobile technology standard which is aimed for a wholesale approach in offering integrated satellite-terrestrial services to cellular companies. It also notes that the standard guarantees a terrestrial network coverage in the U.S. by 2015.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mitre Corp., National Security Agency, and other organizations joined the SANS Institute in order to deal with the most dangerous programming errors committed by organizations. The errors include cross-site scripting, improper access control, and SQL injection. It states that the partnership was made to urge custom software developers to be held liable for unsafe code they make.

The article reports on the new partnership deal of Cisco Systems Inc. and EMC Corp. in the U.S. It is mentioned that the alliance of the virtual computing environment is based from the networking strength of Cisco, its new servers, and EMC's storage together with VMware Inc.'s virtualization software. Moreover, Vblock, a bundled product, integrates those systems for companies building private clouds.

The article reports on the strategic planning of Juniper Networks Inc. in the U.S. It is mentioned that the company is taking on the market leader Cisco Systems Inc. through its new technology and partnership. In this regard, the company is boasting its original equipment manufacturer deals with Dell Computer Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Blade Network Technologies. It is also introducing its products that includes Junos Space, Junos Pulse and Trio chipset.

The author looks at what innovations that Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. may generate out of their partnership in the U.S. He notes that Nokia's plan of adding Office Mobile and other services of the Microsoft is not new anymore in the industry, and that there are still issues which concerns Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIM) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0. He cites that Microsoft and Nokia must capitalize on other Web-based services such as Ovi store, MyPhone, and Windows Mobile Marketplace.

The article reports on the partnership of Sun Microsystems Inc. and RingCube Technologies Inc. in the simplification on the provisioning of virtual desktops in the U.S. This has been done by incorporating the vDesk, a virtualized end-user desktop of RingCube into the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure of Sun. These two desktops work efficiently because it speeden the processing of data.

The article reports on the availability of the BusinessObjects' OnDemand from SAP and the software as a service (SaaS) from Jive to users in the U.S. The collaboration of the software is an example on the new capabilities made by cloud computing. The partnership of these two companies will allow users to access the services offered by each firm.

The article reports on the partnership of Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to develop unified communication (UC) products and services in the U.S. It states that both have committed up to $180 million for their team up which comprised functions, such as e-mail, voice mails, videos and other channels. It adds that the deal reflected the diminished status of the suppose partnership between the first company and Nortel Networks Corp.

The article focuses on the partnership between Jive Software and Amazon.com Inc. in offering Elastic Compute Cloud or (EC2) in the U.S. Jive planned to offer collaboration in cloud computing, but its real goal is to provide companies of its software based on its premises versions. The company offers first three months of its Jive Express for free then charges $3 each user per month.

The article profiles chief information officer Ed Trainor of Amtrak in the U.S. He states that he is proud of being able to recruit and develop good people. He learned that outsourcing is simply another way of many to achieve business objectives. In addition, his suggestion for future CIOs is to know the business and be a true business partner.

The article focuses on the partnership made between SAP AG and Sybase Inc. in uniting Sybase's transaction management and other mobile middleware with SAP software for customer relation management (CRM) and human resources in the U.S. Bill McDermott, SAP's chief executive officer (CEO) for global operation reveals the growing trend of mobile services worldwide. The main goal of the partnership is to substitute the emerging mobile enterprises with more efficient and innovative mobile system.

The article offers news briefs related high technology industry in the U.S. A collaboration made between lawmakers and technological experts in reviewing and enhancing the cybersecurity policy in the country. Cisco and Swan Island Networks collaborate in promoting "trust clouds," to partake sensitive information in all government agencies. Hewlett-Packard Co. introduces it new product, StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays and SAN Virtualization Services software in the market.

The article reports on the partnership of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with financial research firm Morningstar to provide SEC the access to its Altvest database. It states that the database will help SEC lawyers and forensic accountants to spot and gather hedge fund scams and problems. It also notes that the government has selected the Altvest software due to its capability to track trading activity for more than 8,000 hedge funds.

The article reports on the partnership between Microsoft and Intel to finance research into advanced parallel programming in research centers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The centers will focus research on parallel programming to produce applications and operating systems that take advantage of multicore processors.

The article offers news briefs related to technological innovations in the U.S. for the year 2007. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) offered a scaled-down edition of OpenOffice.org, but the company has given it an interface makeover and promises greater involvement in the development process. The partnership among Intel Corp., Nokia Corp., and Nokia Siemens Networks covers future notebooks and mobile Internet devices, Nokia WiMax devices, and Nokia Siemens' infrastructure equipment.

The article offers news briefs on the Internet industry in the U.S. NetScout Systems Inc., a network management marketer, will purchase Network General Corp. for $205 million. Visto Corp., mobile electronic mail provider, is partnering with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to incorporate a push e-mail application into IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. Mozilla Corp. committed $3 million to an unknown subsidiary to endorse email innovation and develop the open source Thunderbird e-mail client.

The article reports on the partnership between the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Council for Automotive Research. The partnership will develop a statistical representation of how radio waves move around a production area in factories and will use it to develop standards to prequalify wireless devices. They have started to test wireless signals at an auto assembly plant in August 2006, and have completed additional tests at an engine plant and a metal stamping plant.

The article reports that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has updated its open source Java application, WAS CE 2.0 in the U.S. Novell Inc. is planning to partner with IBM to distribute the software along with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. According to the author, that combination's aimed at rival Red Hat's JBoss.

The article reports on the plan of Xensource Inc., the leader of the open source Xen virtualization project and Symantec to form partnership to deliver an integrated server and storage virtualization solution in the U.S. These companies will work to integrate Veritas Storage Foundation, Symantec's industry-standard storage management software, into XenEnterprise. This ensure customers to get the best breed in virtualization and storage management.

The article reports that BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer content distributor possesses new eight media partners and $20 million in venture from Accel Partners and Dual Chip Module in the U.S. The eight partners refer to 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Starz Media. These eight partners will produce films and television programs available to BitTorrent for Downloading.

The article reports that Yahoo! Inc. has achieved an impressive deal with seven newspaper companies to create an online job network in the U.S. These newspaper companies include the Dallas Morning News Inc., Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and San Jose Mercury-News They will be posting their job listings exclusively on Yahoo's HotJobs service, which also will ship listings to newspaper sites. Moreover, Yahoo and the newspaper chains will distribute news and other content to each other Web sites.

The article focuses on the agreement of Microsoft and Novell for technical, business and patent collaboration including Microsoft's reselling of Suse Linux in the U.S. The partnership would provide better interoperability between Suse Linux and Windows. As part of the deal, Microsoft will pay Novell $240 million for Linux subscriptions and an additional $108 million for the use of its patent. Meanwhile, Novell will pay Microsoft about $40 million in royalties for the five-year deal.

The article cites news items related to the U.S. computer industry as of November 2006. Microsoft has released its Office 2006 and has added it to Enterprise Price Lists. The half-cubic-inch iPod, which contains one gigabyte of flash memory that holds up to 240 songs, is already available in the market. Microsoft Corp. has formed a technical partnership with Zend Technologies to optimize its open source scripting language PHP to work better with Windows Information Server.

The article reports on the advertising partnership between Google and eBay in the U.S. The deal would include Google to become the exclusive advertising provider for eBay outside the country. In addition, eBay and Google will combine and launch click-to-call advertising that uses both eBay's Internet communication Skype and instant messaging through Google Talk.

The article reports that Sun Microsystems Inc., a maker and leading advocate of JAVA technology, has acknowledged American Express Co. as a customer for its Java Enterprise System through an agreement signed by both companies in the U.S. This article also presents a list of customers for Sun company's Java including General Motors Corp, JPMorgan Chase and Co.

The article reports on the dissolution of the partnership agreement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that has funded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois and the San Diego Supercomputer Center with 35 millions each annually. The NSF will be investing in a "shared cyber infrastructure" aimed at moving its computing investment away from basic research in supercomputers. The move is considered a phase in the relationship between science, engineering and computing according to NCSA director Thom Dunning.

Announces the recruitment of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. by Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. in its effort to keep its traditional Wall Street customers in the U.S. Identification of the projects both companies plan on collaborating; Estimated number of registered licenses distributed by Sun Microsystems for the system; Views of company executives on their business strategies.

Reports on the plan of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. to block relationships between buyers and vendors in the U.S.

Discusses various issues relating to the computer sector in the United States. Outline of the results of a study conducted by market researchers at Access Markets International Partners, which predicted that U.S. small and midsize businesses' spending on business software will grow in 2005; Focus on SAP's announcement of its four-year partnership with Hewlett-Packard.

Reports on partnerships forged by EDS to update its information technology (IT) service offerings and lower operating costs. Collaboration with a group that includes Cisco Systems, Dell, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems to create utility-computing offerings; Creation of the Agile Enterprise Platform, a service offering through which outsourcing customers pay based on the computing power they use.

Reports on the partnership of Accenture with Vanderbilt Center for Better Health in Nashville, Tennessee. Examination on the ways technology can ease information flows that compromise the health care system; Creation of better data that links between hospitals, private practitioners, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies.

Reports on the partnership between Tata Consultancy Services and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society to provide a Web-based application in the U.S. Promotion of political process and civic involvement online; Advantage of the project on the clients.

Reports on the collaboration between Mega International and Ultimus Inc. in the U.S. Integration of the business-metrics tools with business-process-management software; Combination of the software environment functions; Analysis of business data.

Reports on the collaboration between Walt Disney Co. and Hewlett-Packard Co. in the U.S. Installation of back-office systems and home networking gear; Development of digital infrastructure technologies; Enhancement of the animated sound quality for the animated feature.

Reports on the partnership between Siebel Systems Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. to offer the Siebel CRM on Demand subscription service in the U.S. Design of the service; Features of the service; Terms of the partnership.

Reports developments related to information technology industry in the U.S. as of September 2003. Partnership between rail operator Altamont Commuter Express and Pointshot Wireless; Accounts on the percentage rate of increase on the total funding of the security hardware maker Fortinet Inc.; Selection of Alcatel to provide the municipal utility with a high-speed fiber-optic-network.

Reports on the partnership between Giuliani Partners LLC and Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Group in New York City. Terms of the contract; Sources of funds.

Reports on the strategy to avoid the threat of legal liability concerning Linux by the multiple information technology vendors in the U.S. Need for developing a coordinated agreement; Discussion of potential fixes by the SCO Group.

Reports on the partnership of the U.S. and Indian information technology-services technology. Provision of onshore consulting services; Visibility of the business operations; Growth of information technology services. INSET: GOOD BUYS.

Reports on the partnership between Lawson Software Inc. and Deloitte & Touche LLP to offer services for assessing information technology organizations in the U.S.

Reports on the partnership between U.S. Sugar Corp. and the business-process management software vendor OutlookSoft Corp. Use of the software for publishing financial statements, budgeting and reporting and production data; Improvement of customer service; Implications for the information technology sector.