<P>British company ValiDate/400 LLC has launched Validate/400, a new tool designed to be the "final filter" for Year 2000-related data errors.
<P>IBM has completed the acquisition of ERP services company, the Management and Application Support (MAS) Group.
<P>Michaels, Ross & Cole has enhanced its mrc-Productivity Series 97 thin-client rapid application development tool to support automatic generation of server-side Java applications.
<P>Microsoft has begun its defense in the government's antitrust trial against it with written testimony from Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Richard Schmalansee.
<P>The Year 2000 bug shouldn't affect the North American power grid, according to a report released by the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC).
<P>IBM was awarded a record 2,658 U.S. patents in 1998, the sixth consecutive year the company received the most patents.
<P>DataMirror Corp. has released a beta of a new replication and transformation technology that delivers real-time, updated data to desktop applications.