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Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing
News He said the system, provided by PA Consulting Group and Software AG, was far more efficient than relying on manually checking biometrics. Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas for people coming to the UK, the government... [05 Mar 2008]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Software AG, a German company, overtook the UK's Misys for fifth position in Intellect's Truffle 100. The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. [22 Nov 2007]
Google-powered phone 'coming next year'
News Google will unveil its long-anticipated plan to bring its software to mobile phones within the next two weeks, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. The "Google-powered" phones are expected to make... [30 Oct 2007]
SAP admits to "inappropriate" Oracle downloads
News Business applications software company SAP has admitted its subsidiary TomorrowNow made some "inappropriate" downloads of Oracle software but has denied it had access to Oracle intellectual property. Henning Kagermann, chief executive officer of... [03 Jul 2007]
Oracle looks ahead with Agile buy
News Oracle announced plans to buy Agile Software in a $495m cash deal, giving the software giant a foothold in the product lifecycle management (PLM) business. Agile develops software designed to manage a product's lifecycle from concept and design to... [16 May 2007]
Businesses reluctant to ditch ageing legacy systems
News Tim Holyoake, senior consultant at Software AG, which carried out the research, said SOA can be used to give legacy systems a facelift without having to undergo a costly "full body transplant". More than two-thirds of UK organisations admit they... [05 Jan 2007]
Shortlists for CNET tech awards unveiled
News Enterprise Software Product of the Year Commerzbank AG London - Automating the T&E expense management process at Commerzbank AG London Brands2Life and Banner - The Business Software Alliance's 'Software Cluedo' [07 Jul 2006]
SAP: 'We want deep, meaningful relationships'
News SAP AG laid out the path for a deep relationship with the software applications giant on Tuesday during its Enterprise Services Partner Summit in San Francisco. With its Enterprises Services Community program, SAP hopes to create a governing and... [19 Apr 2006]
Oracle chief gets 44 per cent pay hike - and $6.5m bonus
News However, measured against the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Software indexes over a five-year period, the stock has underperformed, according to Oracle's SEC filing. Oracle's board based Ellison's compensation hike on several factors ranging from an... [01 Sep 2005]
IE flaw opens door to latest MyDoom
News The recently discovered vulnerability in the browser software allows the offshoot to infect a PC after a user clicks on a link, according to advisories from security software makers Symantec and McAfee. [09 Nov 2004]
CSC signs $50m deal with US Air Force
News The IT services giant will work with a team of 34 firms led by Northrop Grumman and including Siemens AG, T-Systems, AT&T and Dell. In particular, CSC will provide support for telecom services, network engineering, systems integration and software... [20 Oct 2004]
Microsoft "sucked $60bn out of our industry", says Novell CEO
News Novell made several partner and product announcements on the first day of the BrainShare conference, including a partnership with German software maker Software AG to accelerate the adoption of Linux in the market for XML database software. [14 Sep 2004]
Bagle virus keeps on toasting PCs
News The latest virus, called Bagle.AI by some antivirus companies and Beagle.AG by others, spreads through email as an attached file, which infects a user's PC when opened. The virus also copies itself to any directory that bears a name containing the... [20 Jul 2004]
Systems Union makes £23m German acquisition
News Systems Union (SU) Group is to buy Germany-based MIS AG Market for £23.7m, in the process creating a business intelligence (BI) division. The company specialises in customised planning, reporting and analysis software used for purposes such as real... [10 Oct 2003]
5 years ago... IT chiefs sleep rough for charity
News John Higgins, director general of the CSSA, is one of those planning to sleep out, as is Andy Palmer, UK MD of 3Com, and the heads of Software AG, Agresso and Unify Corporation. 17.07.98: Top figures in the IT industry will sleep on London's... [17 Jul 2003]
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