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The matchup many fans and advertisers hoped to see in baseball's World Series failed to materialize this year as both the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox fell apart -- again -- just short of advancing to the Fall Classic. Nevertheless, fans' feverish interest in the baseball playoffs, many of which took place while much of the U.S. fan base wa...
Red Hat and SuSE today continued their Linux-fueled assaults on the enterprise market and proprietary vendor Microsoft with new releases that seek to broaden the open-source operating system's use in the data-center and replace Microsoft e-mail software and servers While Red Hat and SuSE are fierce competitors in the Linux distribution arena, both ...
Apple has released new iBooks that feature PowerPC G4 processors. The new notebook computers offer wireless connectivity with AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth, and all models include 256 MB DDR memory and slot-load combination drives for burning CDs and watching DVDs The new iBooks also include Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X version 10.3, o...
Big Blue is again aiming at smaller targets with the announcement of its DB2 Content Manager Express, new content-management software intended to help small businesses store, manage and protect documents and other data IBM, which also announced DB2 Content Manager for Linux, said it has priced the Express version of its content-management software ...
Now that Bill Gates and company have vacated Manhattan's Millennium Hotel after their much-publicized launch of Office 2003, many people are asking whether Microsoft's venerable productivity suite is indeed the Office of the new millennium -- or whether they will stick with their present version of the software (or a competing product) until Microsoft's Windows overhaul, nicknamed "Longhorn," is released in late 2005 or early 2006...
Amazon.com beat earnings expectations in its third quarter and predicted another record-smashing holiday season, but the e-tailer's relatively subdued forecast for 2004 raised renewed worries about the valuations of many Internet-sector stocks Sales at the Seattle, Washington-based company grew 33 percent from last year to US$1.13 billion in the qu...
Want to figure out if you're a pessimist or an optimist in the Internet age? Forget the glass half-full, glass half-empty question. Try this instead: comScore says more than 50 percent of the U.S. population used the Internet last month, the first time this has ever happened. Your reaction to that news -- beyond momentary shock at the size of the ...
U.S. schools will spend nearly US$6 billion on technology before the 2003-2004 school year is over, much of it on wireless PDAs. Why do small screens have such a big impact on K-12 students and their teachers? For one thing, they're just the right size, said Elliot Soloway, a professor of education and computer science at the University of Michigan...
So you want to be the boss -- the head technology honcho with the CIO title. You envision long executive lunches, weekly golf tournaments and a big, fat paycheck But when you shake off that daydream, you look around and see the cubicle of a low- to mid-level IT manager. How can a garden-variety IT professional break into the ranks of C-level manage...
Microsoft said it is making progress complying with its settlement of the antitrust case against it, but not everyone is buying the company's soft sell on the subject In an interim status report filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the company, the U.S. Justice Department and 17 states attorney generals, Microsoft said t...
Adding yet another piece to its portfolio of computer network security solutions, Cupertino, California-based security giant Symantec announced the purchase of SafeWeb for US$26 million in cash On the heels of NetScreen's $265 million acquisition of Neoteris earlier this month and F5's $25 million purchase of uRoam in July, Symantec's purchase mark...
Facing increased competition and negative perceptions -- yet still optimistic and ready to fight for its home turf on the desktop -- Microsoft made its new Office 2003 available to retail customers Microsoft said the new Office "system" -- consisting of six suites, 11 products, four servers, one service and "Solution Accelerators" -- will deliver p...
Declaring itself the early leader in the race to win market share in the digital music arena, Apple has announced it sold more than 1 million songs in less than four days after launching a Windows version of its iTunes music download site The company unveiled its Windows-compatible iTunes offering last Thursday at a fanfare-filled event, aiming to ...
Last week, in writing the column " image problem and my own view of the Linux community. Much as the Linux community sees just one aspect of Microsoft, the bad one, I tend to see just one aspect of the Linux community Generally speaking, our view of a person, initiative or company often comes from select perceptions. If you read Slashdot, for examp...
Following a spate of civil suits filed against music consumers in September, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched the next phase of its war on digital piracy. The organization has sent a total of 204 letters to individuals, each of whom, it claims, has made at least 1,000 songs available for upload on peer-to-peer file-trading services such as Kazaa...
Japanese electronics leader NEC and mobile microprocessor mainstay ARM have announced a long-term collaboration initiative toward new multiprocessor-based cores for mobile devices and other multimedia applications NEC and Britain-based ARM said they will codevelop and comarket the next-generation multiprocessing core based on technology from both c...
For years, Google has been the company to beat in the online search sector. Use of the company's search engine is so widespread that in a recent TV movie, the main character joked that she attended "Google University" to research her health problems. Many people also have begun using the company name as a verb, a la "Did you Google it?" However, Go...
VeriSign has announced it plans to sell its Network Solutions business unit to Pivotal Private Equity, a Phoenix, Arizona-based firm known for acquiring underperforming companies, for approximately US$100 million According to VeriSign, $60 million of the deal will be in cash, with the remaining $40 million in a senior subordinated note. VeriSign, w...
The U.S. Department of Defense will begin testing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a technology that many have called the next-generation Internet and that the DOD has said is critical to national defense. The DOD is teaming with hardware and software vendors -- including Fujitsu, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Sun and Nokia -- to test IPv6, which many believe will replace today's widespread IPv4 and provide the additional capacity and security required for more Internet-connected devices.
Moving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services Yet iTunes and other paid services, which differ only slightly in their rules for downloading, burning and transferring, take away file-traders' e...
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