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Centralized Intruder Detection Tool

Shark Tank

THIS MIDWEST OUTFIT is ready to go online. Wants to stick with Linux and existing hardware if possible. Sets up an audit. Consultant pitches an all-new, high-dollar setup. IT says no thanks. Get this: The jilted sales rep writes a report claiming IT is "recklessly endangering our corporate data and gives it to our corporate attorney," a pilot fish fumes. Happy ending: The business owner is furious at the end run. Pistol-whips the sales rep.

Browsing on a Bandwidth Budget

Because of the severe communications and display limitations of handheld devices like smart phones and palmtop PCs, Internet access has to take a somewhat different tack to be even feasible, much less successful. Here's how WML contributes to that process:

Briefs

PeopleSoft Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif., has released an upgrade of its business analysis software with new support for accessing the applications from Web browsers. New applications are also being added for analyzing human resources data and for monitoring corporate performance using so-called Balanced Scorecard techniques. (To learn more about the Balanced Scorecard model, see Business QuickStudy, page 52.) PeopleSoft also released an Internet-enabled version of its development tools. Pricing wasn't disclosed.

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Centralized Intruder Detection Tool

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PeopleSoft Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif., has released an upgrade of its business analysis software with new support for accessing the applications from Web browsers. New applications are also being added for analyzing human resources data and for monitoring corporate performance using so-called Balanced Scorecard techniques. (To learn more about the Balanced Scorecard model, see Business QuickStudy, page 52.) PeopleSoft also released an Internet-enabled version of its development tools. Pricing wasn't disclosed.

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Win 2K Virus Detected

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NEXT WAVE in Y2K news: layoffs. (Wait a minute, wasn't this thing supposed to keep us all rich until 2003 or so?) One smallish consultancy axed half its Y2K staff on Dec. 27. Wanted to beat the rush, maybe. The other staffers got it nine days later.

Briefs: Acquisition Mode

IT Factory Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based maker of Notes and Domino business objects, has acquired Corporate Image Software Inc. (CIS). CIS, also in Cambridge, develops software components and tools for Domino-based e-commerce systems. Acquisition terms weren't disclosed.

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