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Have IBM and HP outpaced Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers? IDC declared it so on Friday, but Gartner's numbers tell a different story. Generally speaking, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.6 percent year over year to US$12.2 billion in the second quarter of 2005, m...

Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again. The worms, which infected servers and PCs running Windows 2000, struck at ABC, America...

In a move that expands its decade-old data storage management software portfolio, IBM on Friday announced a new application designed to continuously protect information -- on laptops, desktop PCs and file servers -- from viruses, file corruption or accidental deletion. IBM is billing its Tivoli Cont...

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The Future of the Home Entertainment PC

The consumer electronics industry has had a hard time with standards. Each manufacturer has its own specialty and few components work well with products from other companies. CE products have a mixed ease-of-use record. The most famous problem is probably the VCR which had the ability to time-shif...

It has kept domain disputes involving huge companies and small profiteers known as "cybersquatters," as well as other Internet address disputes, out of court, but is the domain arbitration that is mandatory for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) domain registrants fair? Lega...

Sirius Satellite is looking to get a jump on its satellite radio competition -- mainly XM -- and leverage the increasing popularity of the medium via its new portable player, touted as a wearable satellite radio that allows users to capture and store Sirius content as well as MP3 and WMA files. Siri...

In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...

This week, a group of legal scholars, high government officials, Nobel prize recipients, and economic experts gathered for the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss e-government, telecommunications, and intellectual property, among other issues. One of the more colorfu...

The U.S. Copyright Office is facing harsh criticism after proposing a rule for pre-registration of copyrights over the Internet that would require Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to guarantee a successful application. The move leaves a significant swath of Web users excluded and triggered obje...

In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...

A pact between chip king Intel and Research in Motion (RIM), Canadian maker of the Blackberry mobile communication device, appears less imminent than originally reported. Rumors of a technology exchange deal between the companies spread like an airborne virus on Monday following a CNBC report predic...

Intel and Cisco announced this week they would bolster wireless local area networks (LANS) and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by businesses with a new wireless suite. The two companies said they had jointly produced a new set of features that pull together Cisco's wireless infrastruc...

Some pundits contend that if Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP is going to break through the barrier between the living room and the home office, it's going to have to do it on the notebook platform. Toshiba is taking that notion seriously with its new line of Qosmio portables. The late...

Consortia led by Hewlett-Packard and Earthlink are the finalists for a proposed city-wide WiFi network in Philadelphia that government officials hope to have online within two months. While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is making headlines in the west, back east, the city WiFi network is close to...

Intel and Cisco announced this week they would bolster wireless local area networks (LANS) and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by businesses with a new wireless suite. The two companies said they had jointly produced a new set of features that pull together Cisco's wireless infrastruc...


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