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In a move to bolster its software and enterprise platform strategies, Intel yesterday announced it has acquired privately held XML solutions provider Sarvega. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intel said the acquisition combines its hardware capabilities with Sarvega's underlying XML software te...
If you've ever owned an SLR camera, you can probably remember the first time you held it in your hands. I do. Here, I thought, many years ago when I picked up my Minolta X7, is something of substance. Weighty, certainly, but also beautifully balanced -- an inanimate object capable of animating its b...
Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch, 40 gigabyte hard disk drive today, hailing the device -- the cutting edge of disk drives under development in different sizes among competitors such as Seagate and Hitachi -- as a "first" that would enable consumer electronics devices to store as many as 10,000 songs or...
As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered comp...
Symantec yesterday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire endpoint compliance solutions provider Sygate Technologies. Endpoint compliance solutions help enterprise organizations enforce security by guaranteeing that all devices connected to a network -- desktops, laptops, servers, and ...
Reports of Apple's inability to patent the interface software in its popular iPod music player and Microsoft's efforts to stake its claim to such technology through its own patent application have sparked wide speculation that Microsoft might make royalties off the Apple devices, which sold to the t...
The once thick walls that have traditionally been separating IT departments from its business leaders at companies both large and small are beginning to thin and crack. In fact, all signs indicate that these walls will soon crumble completely to create a new environment in which business leaders an...
Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street. The expected sale, a...
Music being burned onto CDs is becoming a bigger threat than P2P file-sharing to both the music industry and record stores. The news comes from Recording Industry Association of America chief Mitch Bainwol, speaking for his bosses and the RIAA's owners, the members of the Big Four record label carte...
Y2K may be a distant memory, but there are plenty of other threats against corporate IT systems. In fact, today's list of disaster threats includes more than just hurricanes and blackouts -- chemical attacks and terrorist bombings have become a stark reality. Although fires, floods and earthquakes a...
Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street. The expected sale, a...
Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not.
This week, let's look ahead at changes coming in hardware over the next few years and the players driving those changes. It is certainly time for a change. In 1984 we had two PCs in the business space, Apple enjoyed 40 percent market share and had two innovative designs (the Apple II and the Mac) -...
Sun Microsystems recently reported decreased revenues for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, but you wouldn't know anything was amiss by the other actions of the company. Sun is planning massive investments overseas -- primarily in India -- and has reached deals to develop new thin client techno...
Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not.