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IBM has upgraded its high-end enterprise search product with an improved user interface, and will announce next week the availability of a business intelligence tool that can be used with it to analyze call center data.

Verizon's announcement last week that it was launching a flat-rate wireless plan that would allow for unlimited calling had a cascading effect on the US telecom industry, as AT&T and T-Mobile soon followed suit with flat-rate wireless calling plans of their own.

A startup working in Microsoft's backyard is taking aim at the software giant's entrenched project management software with a new hosted service.

As senior vice president and CIO of Amazon.com, Rick Dalzell is the visionary behind the company's legendary e-commerce platform and personalization engine.

The restructuring at Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday, in which the company said it will "simplify" product lines, eliminate redundant research and development and cut its workforce by as much as 13 percent, has left a lot of unanswered questions, especially about how these changes will affect Sun's customers.

WebSideStory this week is announcing that it will marry its back-end Web analytics engine with consumer-facing search engine technology in Search Version 4.0.

A fault line runs beneath the groundswell that began a few years ago with XML Web services and continues today as SOA (service-oriented architecture). True, nearly everyone agrees that XML messaging is the right way to implement low-level, platform-agnostic services that can be composed into higher-level services that support enterprises business functions. Yet, here's also a sense that the standards process has run amok. IBM, Microsoft, and others have proposed so many Web services standards that a new collective noun had to be invented: WS-* (pronounced "WS star" or sometimes "WS splat"). The asterisk is a wild card that can stand for Addressing, Eventing, Policy, Routing, Reliability, ReliableMessaging, SecureConversation, Security, Transactions, Trust, and a frighteningly long list of other terms. Surveying this landscape, XML co-creator Tim Bray pronounced the WS-* stack "bloated, opaque, and insanely complex."

IBM/Lotus is stepping up efforts to reassure users that its Notes/Domino collaboration platform isn't on the chopping block and will survive well into the future.

The acquisition of antispam vendor Brightmail by security and utility software vendor Symantec is being viewed by a sampling of industry analysts and competitors as a good move in the marketplace that will benefit enterprise IT users.

Blast Radius, an IT services company focusing mainly on large-scale Web applications, on Monday announced its purchase of the XMetal division of Corel.