Monthly Archives: May 2002
Intel Takes Ax to Processor Prices
Intel Corp. dramatically slashed the prices of its Pentium 4 microprocessors over the weekend, complementing the cuts with discounts in its mobile and server...
FCC Delays Spectrum Auction—Again
Waiting until the last minute before wireless companies were required to deposit hefty sums of cash to hold their places in the next big...
Kattoon: May 27, 2002
Read this weeks Spencer column.
NetDirect, First Certified for JDBC
KeyLabs, a certification testing facility, announced Friday that NetDirect LLC, a provider of Java-based database access solutions, is the first vendor to pass the...
Apple Stops Giving Bluetooth the Cold Shoulder
Bluetooth counts among its backers nearly every significant force in the fields of networking, hardware and operating systems. However, at every Bluetooth congregation Ive...
Zander: Sun Still Riding Right Track
Sun Microsystems Inc.s outgoing chief operating officer and president, Ed Zander, said he decided to leave Sun partly because his chances of becoming CEO...
Microsoft to Acquire Retail Software Developer
Expanding its foray into the small- and midsize-business sector, Microsoft Corp. announced last week the acquisition of Sales Management Systems Inc., a provider of...
Users are Critical of Plan to Tie Sharepoint and .Net
Microsoft Corp.s plan to bring its SharePoint portal line and its .Net application server together is facing skepticism among customers.The Redmond, Wash., companys strategy,...
Remedy Views Clash
After four years of litigation, culminating this spring in nine weeks of testimony from economists, computer scientists, antitrust experts, Microsoft Corp. rivals and Bill...
Puss Ponders Pluses of Pop-Under Patent
Spencer chuckled when he saw that a small Portland, Ore., company named ExitExchange had a patent pending for the pop-under ad technology that seems...