IBM buys Web conferencing vendor WebDialogs
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IBM has acquired a Web conferencing service provider, it announced as part of a flurry of unified communications moves on Wednesday.
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IBM Corp. has offered to buy Telelogic AB, a Swedish developer of software development tools, in a cash deal valued at 5.2 billion Swedish krona, or about US$745 million, the companies announced Monday.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched a major upgrade of its WebSphere flagship middleware product, adding autonomic troubleshooting capabilities and other new features designed to improve performance in the application-server platform.
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Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to acquire Chicago-based Parlano, which makes the popular enterprise chat application MindAlign. The move further bolsters the Redmond company's arsenal of unified communications products.
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Crosses swords with IBM's Watchfire Two weeks ago, Hewlett-Packard stared jealously across the street as IBM pulled into the driveway with a brand new web application security specialist company. Not to be outclassed by a neighbor, HP has bought one too.â¦
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September 23, 2004 - PeopleSoft this week became the latest vendor converted by IBM&#39;s WebSphere gospel. The enterprise software giant announced from its Connect 2004 user conference that it has entered a
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IBM Corp. has agreed to buy Montreal software developer Systemcorp ALG for an undisclosed sum, the companies said Tuesday.
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IBM plans to offer Web-conferencing as  a hosted Internet service, seeking to reach small and  medium-sized business customers while taking on more  established rivals in the market, the company said on Tuesday.
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IBM has reached an agreement to purchase Venetica, a privately held developer of content-integration software. The acquisition will enable IBM to provide improved ability to integrate unstructured
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AOL, Yahoo! and Google count as business IM, but MS doesn't IBM's Lotus Sametime instant messaging (IM) system got a boost this week when the company announced that it can now provide what it's been promising for some months, namely interoperability with AOL's assorted IM communities, including ICQ and AIM, and with GoogleTalk. Yahoo! Messenger will be added to the compatibility list within weeks, IBM added.â¦
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EBay Inc. and Taiwanese portal operator PCHome Online Inc. announced their newÂ joint venture Web auction siteÂ on Wednesday, an effort aimed at competing with market leader Yahoo Taiwan Inc.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Microsoft Corp  agreed to  acquire Parlano, which provides technology to allow companies  to create group chat sessions for employees, and add the  application to its portfolio of communication offerings.
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IBM announces interoperability with AOL, Google, and Yahoo IMs--but not Microsoft.
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TechWeb - IBM has reached a deal with Google Inc. to bring the consumer Internet into the office by piping YouTube and thousands of other Web programs into IBM software used by millions of office workers.
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WebEx, a company best known for Web conferencing, announced this week that it will use its WebEx Connect desktop technology to host Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand.?Josh Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting said there is a lot more that can be done with WebEx's ability to "get to the desktop.""The fact that WebEx has a platform for SaaS delivery is one of the best kept secrets," said Greenbaum.?Besides hosting the CRM suite, the WebEx Connect client will also give users the ability to create mashups between Siebel On Demand and WebEx's Sales Center, an offering that is targeted at Web conferencing in sales situations such as team selling and sales calls.??The combination of the two solutions will also give users the ability to integrate WebEx meetings with CRM prospecting activity reports.While the Siebel CRM On Demand solution has kept a low profile since Oracle's acquisition more than two years ago, the partnership between Oracle and WebEx may change that, say analysts."WebEx's corporate footprint is big. These guys are already there [in the enterprise.], added Greenbaum.According to Cisco, WebEx parent company, WebEx has 2.3 million registered users.Siebel CRM On Demand is slated to be available through the WebEx platform in early 2008.
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Enterprise group hug, Web 2.0 stylie Reaching out to bag a chunk of the enterprise social [cough] networking market share, software mammoth Microsoft has acquired corporate group chat provider Parlano.â¦
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IBM's new Lotus Web Conferencing Service, expected to be offered next month, requires that users simply register an account and have an Internet connection, a Web browser and a phone.