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Executives at Oracle have announced their company is on the lookout for potential acquisitions and even briefly considered buying longtime partner and struggling tech giant Sun Microsystems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said his company determined the Sun deal would not make sense because the two companies work well as partners. "I thought about it," ...
Bill fires up his laptop in the hotel lobby and logs on to the corporate network through a wireless Ethernet link in search of an important e-mail. No luck. After attending a morning meeting with a potential customer, he visits the local coffee shop, where he once again taps into the network but does not find the message. A few hours later, in an airline terminal, he checks his messages and finds that he did indeed land a new account...
In a bid to keep up with rivals Intel and IBM, Sun has revealed more of its "Throughput Computing" strategy by unveiling the new UltraSPARC IV processor, which uses multithreading to speed performance twofold compared with the UltraSPARC III Sun said the UltraSPARC IV will begin shipping in systems during the first half of next year. It is part of ...
BEA Systems, an application infrastructure software provider, has announced it is addressing a major IT challenge with the introduction of BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, an application-security infrastructure system By incorporating its application-infrastructure expertise into the new software, the company hopes to help enterprises strengthen a...
Last week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, the company announced that its Small Business Server -- part of the Windows Server 2003 family -- is now available on prebuilt systems from Dell, HP and other providers Instead of dedicating different computers to different server tasks, the Small Business Server software is designed to be load...
Japanese electronics giant Sharp is now selling its 3D-viewable Actius RD3D notebook computer capable of delivering three-dimensional images on its 15-inch screen -- without special glasses or additional software The notebook, on sale for US$3,299, is the first 3D LCD laptop on the market. While the RD3D is shipping without a substantial amount of ...
Forging its second major partnership involving wireless devices in as many months, Microsoft has said it will work closely with Vodafone to create Web services standards that can extend desktop applications to mobile devices. The announcement linking one of the world's top mobile phone companies -- Vodafone has ties to about 123 million mobile cus...
For large and small e-tailers alike, the traditional method of doing business online has been fairly standard. They present a bevy of products, build a secure purchasing interface and advertise so that customers will come clicking to their virtual doorstep. In the past couple of years, however, some e-commerce companies have followed their own path to profit by breaking the mold...
Napster, the onetime file-swapping nexus that sparked fear in the hearts -- and bottom lines -- of record labels, has officially been tamed and will relaunch as a legitimate online music service, parent company Roxio announced Thursday Napster 2.0 will be available to U.S. residents on October 29th. Users who register for the service before the lau...
By soaking up laser light and converting it to electricity to power its propeller, a model airplane maintained flight as a team of NASA researchers used the light to power the craft from the ground Officials at NASA's Marshall and Dryden flight centers, as well as the University of Alabama in Huntsville, report the flight is the first use of laser ...
Orange has announced a new version of its SPV smartphone, called the SPV E200, which will become available next month. The new phone features Bluetooth support and an integrated digital camera. According to the company, it will be the first handset to ship with the Smartphone 2003 version of Microsoft's Windows Mobile software "Two key features cus...
In an effort to fuse the variety of different diagnostic mechanisms used in today's increasingly complex network infrastructures, IBM and Cisco have announced a partnership to develop open software and standards to "help the network help itself." As a show of commitment to open standards -- consistent with Big Blue's push for "autonomic computing,...
In a bid to reassure customers rattled by a series of headline-grabbing security flaws, Microsoft has said it will launch an initiative to make its products more secure. The push includes another revamp of the company's patch management process, which has been widely criticized as too cumbersome for enterprise users and too confusing for some home...
Sierra Wireless has announced a new line of phones that will use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The first of the Voq line of phones, which will include a flip-open computer-style thumbpad for text entry, is expected to become available in 2004, providing "compelling voice and data functionality in a single, pocketable device," Sierra Wireless said Wednesday...
The 1990s witnessed the adoption of IT systems designed to streamline business processes through electronic automation. The introduction of these systems has challenged companies with how to integrate and maintain an increasing number of distributed networks and platforms The challenge of managing these systems has resulted in a complex IT dilemma,...
Last month at the International Business Law Services (IBLS) Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce, Pauline Reich, an associate professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, gave a speech entitled "Legal Issues: Internet and E-mail in the Workplace." Reich is also a well-known expert in the areas of cyberlaw and Internet-based legal, business and government research...
For several weeks running, Eddie Bauer has occupied the top slot in Keynote Systems' E-Commerce Transaction Performance Index, handily beating out much larger players like Amazon and Wal-Mart Troy Brown, divisional vice president of e-commerce at Eddie Bauer, told the E-Commerce Times that there is no magic mix of hardware and software in use. Rath...
An industry group that represents Kazaa has proposed a strategy that, if employed, could turn some peer-to-peer file-sharing services into a source of revenue for the recording industry The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), which represents Kazaa's parent companies Sharman Networks and Altnet, has suggested that music files traded ...
The Napster song-swapping service has undergone a transformation from hotbed for piracy to legitimate peer-to-peer service in a large pack of formidable competitors Napster 2.0, to be officially launched October 29th by Roxio, will provide legal dollar-per-song access to a catalogue of 500,000 titles. However, the new version of the once rebellious...
In an effort to send a clear message through the noise of constant software security warnings, the SysAdmin Audit Network Security (SANS) research group has released its list of the year's top 20 vulnerabilities. The SANS institute -- which divided vulnerabilities into two lists of 10 for Windows and 10 for Unix/Linux -- put Microsoft's IIS and SQ...
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