Monthly Archives: March 2003
Startup Aura Has New Twist On Personal Networking
Aura Semiconductor is heading for a collision with Bluetooth, and its chief executive knows it.Aura, a startup with offices in Wilmington, Mass., and Hong...
DPI Scrambles After Credit-Card Theft
When Data Processors International (DPI) revealed in February that an "unauthorized outside party" ran off with more than five million Visa and MasterCard account...
Microsoft Debuts Collaboration Server
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday made available the long-awaited beta of its Greenwich real-time communication server along with a strategy designed to make Greenwich an...
IBM Plans 32-Way Intel-Based Server
IBM, which late last year began shipping a 16-way version of its powerful eServer x440 system, later this year will begin shipping a 32-way...
Patches? We Dont Need No Stinkin Patches!
The past year or so had been marked by few significant Internet attacks—and none of the caliber of Code Red, ILoveYou and other pioneering...
Readers Respond: CDs Do Not Suck!
My recent article Face the Music: CDs Suck pointed to market forces that inhibit the arrival of a high-performance successor to the venerable and...
Storage Web Digest: Sony Preps Japanese Market Release for Next-Generation DVD Recorder
Enterprise StorageRAID Price War Set to Erupt with Intels New ICH5R ChipAccording to industry sources, Intel earlier informed its motherboard clients that it would...
MS Turns On Rights Management
Neowin.net is reporting that Microsoft has turned on the code that will enable the "information rights management" in Office 2003 Beta 2. (Microsoft is...
Firstwave, Surebridge Latest to Join Acquisitions Parade
Firstwave Technologies Inc. and Surebridge Inc. on Tuesday became the latest technology companies to announce acquisitions in a week that has already been heavy...
Corel, Microsoft Ready Office Suites
The office desktop productivity suite wars are heating up, with Corel Corp. on Wednesday unveiling the first beta of WordPerfect Office 11, which is...