Microsoft has moved up the public prerelease date of the new edition of its office productivity suite to Monday, September 15, to let some of its business customers download its new Office desktop application bundle about two weeks sooner than originally planned. The new Microsoft Office 2003 software suite -- which will be released to the general...
Colocation. Co-location. Colo. Collocation from the Latin collocare. It's one of those words we can't make up our minds how to spell. But they all mean the same thing in IT terms: Colocation is the practice of housing servers -- usually Web or telecommunications servers -- in secure, well-connected facilities Strictly speaking, colocation applies t...
Only 15 years ago, we watched in amazement while the rusty iron curtain collapsed and the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe embarked on new lives in the global market. For most of us, this neglected region stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans then retreated to the fringes of our attention. Yet the region is very close to Western ...
Established in 1958, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency -- most commonly known as DARPA -- has played a pivotal role in support of innovative research, hosting some of the best as well as the strangest research projects, and garnering a reputation as a hugely influential center of intellectual excellence But the organization has come und...
Digital this, digital that. What about analog? We are awash in a sea of zeroes and ones, and it's tempting to assume that analog electronics are set to become history. However, most digital devices still do require analog circuitry, so several companies have specialized in the design and manufacture of analog components. National Semiconductor, based in Santa Clara, California, is one of the major players.