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Alfresco, the first to provide an open source enterprise content management solution, has announced the availability of Alfresco 2.0 for the distributed enterprise.

Omniture, Inc.announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Touch Clarity, a leading on-demand provider of automated behavioral targeting. Under the terms of the agreement, Omniture has agreed to pay total consideration of up to $51.5 million (plus approximately $8.5 million in assumed vested stock options).

CD/DVD drive market growth showed a surprising weakness in the third quarter of 2006. The PC market has been aggressively adopting DVD burners. However, opportunities also continue to exist for older technologies in the commercial PC market.

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Profits more than doubled in the fourth quarter for information-management vendor EMC Corp. and beat the estimates of Wall Street analysts Tuesday. In the last three months of 2006, EMC earned $389 million, 18 cents per share, on revenue of $3.21 billion.

According to Alterian's transatlantic annual survey of more than 500 direct marketers, marketing services providers and agencies. eighty-five percent of respondents expect their online direct marketing expenditures to increase in 2007. The spending projection is the largest expected increase since the Alterian Annual Survey began in 2003.

CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET) announced today that it expects to file restated financial statements as well as delinquent quarterly reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 2007. The Company’s restated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005 will be filed as an amended 2005 Annual Report on Form 10-K. 

Cambridge, Mass., December 19, 2006 . . . Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Warren Hadley has resigned effective immediately. His resignation was the result of initial findings of an internal investigation that uncovered irregularities with respect to an option grant for 5,000 shares made to Hadley in 1999.

In 2006, slowing logic-related demand from integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and foundries alike was offset by strong commodity memory investments, resulting in healthy growth for the semiconductor capital equipment industry,” said Klaus Rinnen, managing vice president for Gartner's semiconductor manufacturing and design research group.

Microsoft Corp. has started linking users' search habits with other personal information as it prepares to show more personalized advertisements. With the use of small data files known as cookies, Microsoft can link information users provide when they sign up for Hotmail e-mail and other services with data on what they view and search for on various Microsoft sites, such as those for maps, Web journals and finance.

Taxonomy is the longest “four-letter” word in the English language to most information and knowledge management professionals; especially those who find themselves in charge of a corporate taxonomy project. Many enterprises view taxonomy projects with . . .

eDiscovery technology spending will grow from $1.4 billion in 2006 to more than $4.8 billion in 2011 as enterprises realize that they have no choice but to prepare for electronic discovery. Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) taking . . .

The latest in IBM’s line of enterprise search products, IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, is powerful, simple to use, and free. IBM just announced availability of a freely downloadable enterprise search product that installs with three clicks, packs the same . . .

IT View Best Practices, December 14, 2006 (4 pages) As records management and autoclassification technologies automate and evolve, records managers question if they have a future. Will such a position be necessary in an automated world? Can a records manager continue to add value to an organization? Despite . . . 

BM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, is an entry-level search product created for smaller businesses that cannot afford to pay the high prices charged by other search vendors.

Open Text Announces Livelink ECM 10; Unveils the Road to "Enterprise Transparency" ECM Leader Announces Major New Release at Annual User Conference, Details New Capabilities to be Rolled Out Through Mid 2007

Oracle Buying Stellent For $440 Million

IBM and FileNet Corporation today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire FileNet, a publicly held company based in Costa Mesa, Calif., in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $1.6 billion, or $35 per share. The acquisition is subject to FileNet shareholder approval, regulatory reviews and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.

Open Text Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hummingbird Ltd. under which Open Text will acquire through a wholly-owned subsidiary, all of Hummingbird's outstanding shares in an all-cash transaction...