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Achievo signs consulting agreement with NycomedUnder the agreement, Nycomed will outsource to Achievo the design, operation and maintenance of its validation management process for implementing a drug safety solution.
dmeurope.com Tuesday, May 13, 2008Achievo Germany sets shop in Frankfurt, WolfsburgThe addition of Wolfsburg and Frankfurt is expected to enable Achievo to offer better services to its clients.
dmeurope.com Tuesday, May 13, 2008Achievo signs consulting deal with the state of Baden-WuerttembergAchievo's team in Boblingen, will work with the ministry of finance of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany on a long-term project.
dmeurope.com Tuesday, May 13, 2008Nordisk Mobiltelefon selects Ceon solutionNMT is utilising the PCC Order Negotiator Web Services API (ON API) to integrate PCC with the CRM, Web Shop and Reseller Ordering applications.
dmeurope.com Tuesday, May 13, 2008Microsoft to bring back Visual Basic in Office for MacMicrosoft on Tuesday announced it would restore support for VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite's cross-platform automation functionality.Microsoft will return VBA to the next full upgrade to the Mac version of Office, the company said. While Office 2008, which was sharply criticized for omitting VBA, will receive bug-fix updates (such as Service Pack 1, also announced Tuesday ), it will not be updated to add VBA support."We know [VBA] is important to a section of our user base who needs cross platform compatibility," said Kurt Schmucker, Mac Business Unit group product manager and lead evangelist. "And we're bringing that back."VBA is a programming language used with Microsoft Office applications, making it relatively easy to add automation (macros) and customization (menus, dialogs, and so on) to Office documents.VBA was part of Office 2004, but Microsoft announced
Infoworld.com Tuesday, May 13, 2008Centrelink in crackdown on cheatsCENTRELINK will match data with banks to indentify fraudsters in a $138 million program.
Australian IT Tuesday, May 13, 2008Update: Icahn mulling Yahoo proxy fight Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly mulling a proxy fight against Yahoo's current board members in order to pressure the company to re-establish merger negotiations with Microsoft.Icahn has bought as many as 50 million Yahoo shares since Microsoft walked away from the deal, according to reports Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, which both quoted anonymous sources familiar with the situation. [ For the complete saga of Microsoft's unsuccessful bid to take over Yahoo, check out InfoWorld's special report ]However, Microsoft hasn't indicated to Icahn that it would return to the negotiating table, and Icahn hasn't decided whether he will go through with the proxy fight, the reports said.Yahoo investors have until Thursday to nominate candidates to the board, whose 10 incumbent directors are all up for re-election this year when Yahoo holds its shareholders' meeting in July. Separately from Icahn's plans, other large investors are considering ge
Infoworld.com Tuesday, May 13, 2008Update: EarthLink to remove Philadelphia Wi-FiflEarthLink next month will shut down its Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, the flagship of its now-dashed municipal wireless initiative, and then remove it from the city's street lights.The ailing service provider made the announcement Tuesday, saying it is proceeding with that plan after months of negotiations with the city and a nonprofit that had planned to offer free Wi-Fi on the network. The deal fell apart because of a disagreement among the city, the nonprofit, and the group Wireless Philadelphia, EarthLink said. The carrier will provide a 30-day transition period, finally shutting down the network on June 12, and offer its Wi-Fi subscribers discounts on other EarthLink services.Unless a deal to hand over the network can be salvaged, it will be a somber ending to the project that put municipal Wi-Fi on the map in the U.S. just three years ago. Philadelphia's plan in 2005 to build the nation's largest municipal Wi-Fi network, spanning 135 square miles (350 square kilometers), drew fir
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