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Cisco Systems said today that it will invest US$12 million to build a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility is slated to open in February 2005 and work there will focus on the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, including routers and Cisco IOS(R) and IOS XR software, the company said According to...
Cisco Systems said today that it will invest US$12 million to build a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility is slated to open in February 2005 and work there will focus on the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, including routers and Cisco IOS(R) and IOS XR software, the company said According to...
IBM said today that its bet on blade server technology is paying off, announcing that more than 100 companies had acquired its eServer BladeCenter specification since the blade server base technology was made available last September IBM, which opened its BladeCenter design specification with Intel, called the rapidly growing support evidence that ...
Most of us are aware that the U.S. dollar has been struggling lately. Evidence the fact that it has been on a steady decline compared to the euro. In fact, the dollar recently fell to yet another record low against the euro Besides meaning that your next trip to Europe will be more expensive, what else does this phenomenon mean? Actually, the impli...
Oracle's OpenWorld conference last week in San Francisco combined the company's traditional shows Oracle AppsWorld and OracleWorld in the company's largest conference ever. More than 25,000 customers, vendor partners, Oracle employees and analysts took part. Even Microsoft made its first appearance "Technology demand clearly has been recovering and...
This week, federal regulators unleashed yet another telecommunications decision that will slow down progress, costing American jobs and economic growth. Technology's mantra of "faster, better, smaller and cheaper" is constantly running up against a bureaucratic mantra of "slower, mediocre, fumbling and expensive." In its fourth try in eight years t...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is slated to begin levying a new tax on domain name registrations starting early in 2005 and has already begun to make plans for how to spend what could be a sizeable windfall The fee, which amounts to 75 cents per year for each domain name registered, will apply only to ".Net" domains...
After a two-day presentation in court, a federal judge has ruled in favor of Google in a trademark infringement case filed by insurer GEICO. That frees Google to display rival logos when users search under the keyword GEICO U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia said there was not enough evidence of trademark violat...
Ending a disappointing chapter in its history, Hewlett-Packard todayannounced that Intel would hire its Itanium chip team, severing a 12-yeardevelopment partnership between the companies. HP, however, said it wasstill planning to spend US$3 billion over three years on the 64-bittechnology "It surprised me to find there were still HP guys involved i...
Faced with antiquated technical issues and political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week contemplated lifting the ban on cellular telephone use on aircraft The Commission proposed relaxing the current ban on wireless phone use during flights that was intended to avoid interference with both terrestrial and airplane commu...
Yahoo has launched a service to provide live local traffic information with its online maps and driving directions, something it said makes it the first Web site to provide speed conditions and dynamic traffic information nationwide The new feature will initially be integrated in Yahoo Search, Yahoo Local, and Yahoo Maps, and is available at http:/...
The non-profit Mozilla Foundation has placed an ad in today's edition of the New York Times. The open-source advocacy organization is pleading its alternative case with a two-page spread that asks readers the direct question: "Are you fed up with your Web browser?" Spread Firefox, a volunteer-run Mozilla advocacy site, coordinated the ad, which f...
Merger mania found its way back into the software space today, with security firm Symantec saying it would pay US$13.5 billion to acquire Veritas Software The deal creates the fourth-largest software firm in the world and with Veritas' storage software and Symantec's strength in security, creates a company that can offer products that extend from t...
A company that makes a tool for finding bugs in software code disclosed this week that the Linux kernel is far less flawed than many programs people pay money for According to San Francisco-based Coverity, its source-code auditing tool found the Linux 2.6 kernel had 985 bugs in its 5.7 million lines of code. The typical commercial software program ...
When it comes to investing in virtualization solutions, the hurdles might have to do more with organizational policies than technology. Since these solutions frequently meld disparate entities within an enterprise -- human resources, sales and marketing, manufacturing -- each of which often have their own infrastructure, policies and personnel, a virtualization program could turn ugly...
Now that e-commerce is no longer a novelty, most corporations recognize some basic realities about online sales: Building and maintaining a Web site is no walk in the park; not all browsers are equally interested in buying; and when it comes to sales, slick Web copy can't replace the human touch There's not much to be done about the first two real...
It's time for a reality check: When it comes to managing e-commerce strategies in your company, how do results line up with expectations? Too many companies hold on to incredibly inefficient Web sites chock full of order capture systems that lead nowhere except to someone's Outlook folders, or catalogs that were last refreshed in 2001. There are e...
Until quite recently, Oracle's salespeople would recommend Sun hardware because SPARC offered the memory, processor speed and reliability needed to make the database product seem pretty good. Today, however, Oracle sees Lintel (Linux on Intel) as its route to a bigger share of the customer's budget. That's bad news for Sun even if the Linux hardware comes from Sun, because the margins are a bit slimmer and the chances of damage to Sun's reputation as a reliable supplier far greater...
IT managers tend to look at wireless local area networks, or WLANs, much like adults view groups of loud teenagers -- with at least a little bit of trepidation and sometimes some fear as well. That's because while the wireless technology potentially offers companies the ability to enhance productivity, it is also known to have some significant security loopholes...
On the heels of IBM's decision to sell its PC unit to Chinese player Lenovo, Forrester Research is reporting that the number of personal computers in use worldwide will more than double to almost 1.3 billion by the end of the decade That's up from 575 million today, according to the Forrester report, which sizes up PC adoption rates across 16 emerg...
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