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Over the past several years, SGI has gone through many changes -- on the technology, finance and even corporate-culture fronts -- but the company has survived and seems to be emerging stronger than ever. On the technology front, SGI has moved away from the Windows-based workstations of the late 1990s and now offers a range of impressive technology based exclusively on the company's longstanding IRIX operating system...
In a move that could dramatically alter the booming search engine marketplace, Yahoo has announced plans to acquire Overture, the company credited with pioneering the pay-for-placement search business model, in a cash-and-stock deal worth more than US$1.6 billion. The agreement calls for Overture shareholders to receive about .6 share of Yahoo sto...
Hailed as the "next big thing" in computing during the 1980s, optical technology was supposed to revolutionize everything from networks to processors. But the pace of research cooled when materials used to make optical chips -- which convey light, or photons, rather than electrons, as in traditional semiconductors -- failed to emerge The computer i...
The number of high-tech job cuts fell sharply during the first six months of 2003, plunging 60 percent below 2002 levels, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Most major technology industries stabilized, the firm said, led by telecommunications, which has laid off 78 percent fewer workers, or about 36,000, this year compare...
Of all the words that inspire affection in a small-business owner's heart, few can compete with "free," especially in this economy, with companies trying to rein in spending as tightly as possible. Still, it is virtually impossible, even in a buyer's market, to get something for nothing when it comes to enterprise software. On the other hand, PC u...
Complementing its recent wireless push -- spearheaded by the company's new Centrino mobile chips -- Intel has announced it is developing fixed wireless silicon products designed to extend the reach of mobile networking. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said that the wireless broadband equipment, to be based on the new 802.16a standard,...
Yahoo comfortably met Wall Street targets for the second quarter, posting its fifth straight profitable quarter and its best revenue mark ever as key areas, such as subscriptions and premium online services, provided a spark. The company said it earned US$50.8 million on $321.4 million in revenue in the quarter ended June 30th, compared with a pro...
To a small-business owner, choosing technology can be daunting. On one hand, the latest gadgets can glitter like a well-stocked toy store, with vendors promising to put a company on the cutting edge. On the other, budget constraints mean purchases must pay for themselves in the long run. So, what is the best way to ensure that technology outlays w...
Microsoft will stop granting employees options to buy company stock -- a benefit that helped make thousands of tech workers wealthy during the dot-com boom but has fallen out of favor more recently. The company is instead moving to a plan that will grant employees actual shares Since its founding in 1975, Microsoft has been a pioneer among technolo...
In recent years, as the economy has made belt-tightening a mandate for many executives, farming out work to India, Russia and other foreign locales has become a relatively commonplace tactic for U.S.-based companies. CEOs like the cost savings, and IT departments appreciate the ability to hammer out a project on a 24/7 schedule However, attempts to...
The day after the big Web site defacement challenge laid a big egg, the headlines predictably told of a threat that never really materialized. Or they focused on the intra-hacker intrigue and the irony of a hacker-friendly site getting hacked in the middle of a hacking contest. Before the purported contest, some security firms warned customers to ...
Here's an ad I'd like to see in the online personals. "Established $118 billion networker seeks respected microcomputer company for technology integration, product fusion, customer rollup. Must have own intellectual property, stable income, smart staff and a desire to conquer the enterprise networking market. Startups need not apply." Once upon a ...
Information storage leader EMC has announced it will buy Legato Systems in an all-stock deal worth US$1.3 billion, signaling that the once-struggling tech giant may be back on its feet. EMC CEO Joseph Tucci said his company has long believed that Mountain View, California-based Legato would make a logical takeover target, but the move was delayed ...
For many years, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have collaborated to make their products work together. Recently, for example, Microsoft chose HP ProLiant Servers as the development platform for Windows Server 2003 and the bulk of Microsoft's enterprise applications In addition, HP has boasted that it is the only Worldwide Prime Integrator of Microso...
As a key deadline approaches, Oracle has extended its offer to buy shares of PeopleSoft stock for US$19.50 in cash. According to PeopleSoft, the move reflects the fact that just 11 percent of its shareholders have agreed so far to take part in the hostile, $6.3 billion takeover bid. Redwood Shores, California-based Oracle said its offer, originall...
Passwords are both the universal language for network navigation and the weakest link in network security, as fraught with peril as they are essential. Experts say that because they are so closely linked to the ever-fallible human element, passwords cause the most headaches of any security mechanism. However, any enterprise, large or small, can ta...
Security experts have warned that the holiday weekend could bring an onslaught of defacement attacks on U.S. Web sites, not as a result of anti-American sentiment, but instead because of a purported contest among domestic hackers. "The Defacers Challenge" reportedly is a race to see which computer hacker can be the first to deface 6,000 different ...
A high-tech workers union that keeps close tabs on Microsoft claims the software giant is on the verge of transferring scores of U.S.-based call-center jobs overseas, a move certain to reignite debate about overseas outsourcing. The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, or WashTech, said current workers are being warned that their call-center...
It's so easy in hindsight to poke fun at the U.S. government for the lack of foresight it showed when it urged consumers to sign up for the national do-not-call registry, only to have the site crushed by more traffic than it could easily handle. The people in charge really should have known better. Were they caught off guard? Surprised to learn th...
Although every company should employ firewalls to keep its networks and data safe from bad guys, larger enterprises tend to have an even deeper need for breach-proof perimeters With multiple offices, thousands of employees and a wealth of electronic access points into their systems, these big enterprises must lock down a great deal of infrastructur...
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