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The SCO Group has landed US$50 million in private financing, which it said it will use to expand its business and add strength to its multibillion-dollar legal battles with IBM and others. Those lawsuits focus on alleged use of SCO's proprietary Unix code in the Linux operating system. BayStar Capital, whose other investments include Sirius Satell...
To say the SCO Group has been making headlines frequently is an understatement. Since March, when the company filed suit against IBM for allegedly using SCO-owned Unix code in its Linux systems, SCO has gotten an unheard-of amount of press for a company that, according to its third-quarter results, posted only US$20.1 million in revenue In the last...
Microsoft once again is discussing plans to overhaul its security just as the company has released five patches for seven newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows desktop and server software Microsoft issued the patches for a range of Windows systems that could be compromised as a result of the vulnerabilities -- five of which were rated critica...
Action by a committee probing a controversial Internet redirection service operated by VeriSign could be taken as soon as two weeks from now, according to the chairman of the panel "There's a major ICANN meeting the week after next in Tunisia, and I hope we can get our stuff done before that," said Steve Crocker, who chairs a panel of the Security ...
Graphics technology leaders ATI and Nvidia have been rolling out new innovations at a steady pace in the past several years, competing for desktop partnerships and mind share. The two companies have often been compared to Intel and AMD in the way they've battled furiously, but ATI and Nvidia don't have quite as much animosity toward each other Some...
Fueled by continued demand for notebook computers as well as consumer and corporate spending, worldwide PC sales in the third quarter of 2003 grew nearly 16 percent from last year, about 5 percent above projections, research firm IDC said The IDC report, reinforced by similar Gartner findings of 14 percent growth compared with last year's third qua...
Saying it is seeing the most concrete signs to date that an economic recovery is taking hold, IBM has indicated it could reverse more than two years of layoffs by adding as many as 10,000 jobs in 2004. "We are beginning to see signs that the economy has stabilized," said CEO Samuel J. Palmisano. "As we look to 2004, more customers are expected to ...
For the most part, today's businesses are investing in infrastructure and doing more with fewer resources, rather than buying ping-pong tables and BMWs for their workers While this bottom-line focus may seem like a return to normalcy for those who entered the workforce before the dot-com boom, twentysomethings who first entered the professional emp...
Recent high-end performance tests show AMD's 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple's G5 and Intel's Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing a lack of available 64-bit applications and the timing of the benchmarking results While Apple has claimed its Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer, the G5...
Dell has expanded its handheld product offerings by introducing the three-member Axim X3 family, consisting of slim and compact PDAs that include the Axim X3i, a US$379 model with integrated wireless capability At 5 ounces, the Axim X3 is 28 percent lighter than its predecessor and, at a half inch thick, 17 percent thinner. The Axim X3 offers a bri...
Microsoft Office is one of the most far-reaching client applications in the world, used or customized by nearly 3 million developers and more than 400 million users. With today's launch of Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft is hoping to provide developers with the tools they need to take advantage of the .NET Framework in the context of Office-based software...
Furthering its unique technology that uses on-chip software to economize processor energy, Transmeta has introduced the Efficeon TM8000 family of chips, which the company hopes will broaden its markets The new Efficeon TM8000, announced at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, builds on the original energy-efficient Crusoe processor and...
It's possible, though anything but likely, that the Cubs and the Red Sox could meet in baseball's World Series this year. Even casual fans know the significance of such an event -- together, the teams have gone a combined 180 years without winning a World Series. The possibility of such an unlikely matchup has stirred up a storm of jokes, the most...
One of the most important trends in today's data storage market will seem remarkably familiar to any longtime industry-watcher: ATA drive technology is catching on like wildfire in a forest of dry timber The original version of ATA, or Advanced Technology Attachment (also called IDE), has been around for many years, in countless millions of users' ...
What is the world's most widely used operating system? It's not Windows, Unix or Linux, but ITRON, a Japanese real-time kernel for small-scale embedded systems. ITRON runs on mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players and countless other electronic devices ITRON emerged as an ambitious Japanese initiative known as The Real-time Operating system Nuc...
Mobile computing and wireless networking received a boost this week as Microsoft and HP announced new products at ITU Telcom World in Geneva, Switzerland While HP unleashed a tsunami of product announcements on Sunday, it was Microsoft that had analysts buzzing on Monday with the unveiling of its Wireless Provisioning Services (WPS), a new technolo...
A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today's Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to recent reports, the new file system will arrive with Microsoft's next operating system, called Longhorn, which is slated for release at some point in 2005 or 2006...
It might surprise you to know that, by survey, Microsoft has about 120 million happy customers. I'm guessing that, if you are reading this column, you probably aren't one of them. You might also be surprised to know that Microsoft surveys as one of the most-trusted vendors in the industry, and you likely wouldn't be surprised to hear that the comp...
Promising quality improvements and furthering the competition for media players and broadband subscribers, Microsoft's MSN is offering free streaming video in a beta version that will be available to all MSN subscribers in the United States this winter The move comes as Microsoft seeks to broaden its MSN and Windows Media 9 audience in the face of ...
ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for floating-point applications. According to ClearSpeed, the new chip can provide more than twice the processing speed of competing floating-point processors "With co...
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