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IBM has acquired e-commerce-focused search technology developer iPhrase Systems, a private company based in Bedford, Massachusetts. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

IBM's purchase of electronic forms solution vendor PureEdge Solutions poses a challenge to the dominant players in this space, an analyst says.

IBM and Laszlo Systems on Tuesday announced they are teaming to link the OpenLaszlo rich Internet application development system to the open source Eclipse platform.

Despite paper's image as an outmoded and costly conveyor of information, businesses still love to push it. It's tactile, familiar and, in many cases, represents the primary way that companies interact with employees, partners and customers. Yet the difficulties inherent in tracking, storing and rekeying data and moving paper around take a huge financial toll on businesses. Even those documents that have been converted to an electronic format tend to be largely static. What might it mean to business efficiencies if corporate documents could become active in the processes they front and adapt as needed? What if they could become, well, smart?

IBM on Monday announced that a slew of partners have signed up to support its new Workplace Client Technology. The Workplace Client is a rich client platform designed to ease management of and access to a variety of applications.

Alongside IBM Lotus Software's forward looking Workplace collaboration road map that is unfolding in Orlando, several Lotus partners rolled out offerings that extend and strengthen IBM's new and existing offerings.

At next week's meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) XForms working group, the mechanisms for HTML forms will at long last be updated -- seven years after the specification saw its last major overhaul.

The headlines about the new "digital signatures" law have highlighted its effect on consumer transactions. But according to experts, it will have a bigger impact on business-to-business e-commerce, including online procurement and electronic marketplaces.