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Sony Electronics has introduced two new Clie handhelds designed for wireless communications, portability and multimedia. The PEG-UX40 and PEG-UX50, both with built-in wireless connectivity as well as key processing components manufactured by Sony itself, will be available in Japan starting in early August and in the United States in early September...
PeopleSoft has completed its tender offer for ERP vendor J.D. Edwards. Both companies noted that PeopleSoft now owns 88 percent of J.D. Edwards' outstanding shares and will buy the remaining 12 percent by the end of August PeopleSoft estimated the transaction was worth about US$1.8 billion in total. The merged company boasts $2.8 billion in annual ...
Nothing Microsoft does goes unnoticed or underanalyzed -- and, true to form, the company's purchase of an obscure but well-regarded Romanian antivirus firm last month has sparked a torrent of speculation about its intentions in the security arena. Established antivirus firms, such as Symantec and Network Associates, were quick to downplay the thre...
A software flaw in routers discovered by networking giant Cisco has forced Internet carriers and others to apply fixes quickly before attackers cause network outages by exploiting the vulnerability. Exploit code that takes advantage of the flaw was released early Friday morning, and networks using the Cisco routers and switches were being attacked...
With server software sales booming, Microsoft recorded a 26 percent gain in earnings, to US$1.92 billion, for its recently ended fourth quarter -- but the software giant also posted a rare miss of analysts' profit targets. The company said its profit was dented by nearly $800 million in charges, largely tied to the settlement of the Netscape antit...
In 1965, Gordon Moore, Intel's cofounder, predicted that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every 18 months. In some eyes, that law -- which has become somewhat of an accepted axiom in the computer industry -- has been losing veracity. There are some -- Moore included, according to several accounts -- who think there a...
Legislation introduced into the U.S. Congress this week would make uploading a file to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network a felony with penalties of up to US$250,000 in fines and five years in prison The bill, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Michigan) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-California), is aimed at closing loopholes in current copyright legisla...
Microsoft has warned of critical flaws in nearly all versions of its Windows operating systems. According to the company, the flaws could leave millions of computers vulnerable to attack While computers would still be protected by firewalls and blocked ports, security experts expressed concern that the widely used Microsoft software is likely to be...
Apple Computer outpaced expectations with its latest earnings, posting a profit as strong sales of non-desktop machines led the company to its best revenue-generating quarter in more than two years. Apple posted a profit of US$19 million for the quarter ended June 30th on revenue of $1.54 billion, an 8 percent increase over year-ago figures. Both ...
Apple's new server OS, known as Panther, is slated to launch before year's end with new capabilities that will be "awesome solutions for an awful lot of customers," according to Apple server software director Tom Goguen While it is not surprising to hear Apple referring to its products as "awesome" or "cool," the company's new Panther offering may ...
Chip giant Intel has reported second-quarter earnings that slightly surpassed analysts' expectations, posting a profit of US$896 million, or 14 cents per share, on revenue of $6.8 billion That revenue figure represents an increase of just 1 percent from the first quarter and 8 percent from the year-ago period. In contrast to the slight rise in reve...
Several computer and Internet security experts warned this week that while threats are on the rise and the lag time between vulnerability and attack is shrinking, government and the private sector have failed to team effectively on Internet security, leaving infrastructure and systems susceptible Internet Security Systems reported in its quarterly ...
In a sign that one of the main combatants in the browser wars is ready to lay down its arms, AOL has cut workers from its already shrunken Netscape division and has cut loose the Mozilla open source browser project AOL did arm Mozilla with some cash, pledging to donate US$2 million as well as other resources to help support the Mozilla Foundation, ...
The tech world's pie-eyed optimists want us to believe that the helter-skelter past few weeks on the mergers-and-acquisitions front is a good omen, a sign of great things to come for the economy in general and technology in particular. That may be so. After all, with actual deals and would-be deals taken into account, some US$10 billion has been t...
Bringing together various applications and computer systems is certainly no picnic, but another vital integration challenge is often overlooked in the corporate dialogue: integrating the IT department with the rest of the enterprise In the hallways and the boardroom, IT often is viewed as an alien entity by CEOs and other business-focused executive...
Microsoft announced the 2.0 release of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool designed to provide Java developers with a smooth transition to Web services and Web- and Windows-based applications on the Microsoft .NET framework Built on ArtinSoft migration technology, JLCA automates the process of migrating language syntax and library...
IBM and Cisco are continuing their collaboration on storage area networks (SANs), touting long-distance connectivity and cost savings through the new Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) protocol The two companies claim the Cisco MDS 9000 IP Storage Services Module, which will be resold by IBM, will provide long-distance SAN connectivity across existing in...
A military planner at the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, watches a battle unfold without taking his eyes off the computer screen. The software is tracking a million vehicles spread over the Southeast Asian terrain -- the most ever tracked in a military simulation Modeling and simulation have made momentous strides in recent years, and t...
No. 2 chipmaker AMD has unveiled a joint venture with Japan-based Fujitsu, creating a US$3 billion global company bent on mastering the market for flash memory products. Known as FASL LLC, the new venture is made up of the two companies' flash memory businesses, with a combined workforce of 7,000. It will market flash products under the brand name...
Many companies have scaled back staffing levels and instituted mandatory hiring freezes in the past few years, but these cutbacks have exacted a steep cost. In many cases, businesses now are facing skill gaps that hurt their IT departments. Even worse -- and somewhat surprisingly, considering the number of IT workers seeking jobs -- there is sometimes a shortage of qualified individuals to fill the gaps, even when money is budgeted for hiring...
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