Monthly Archives: April 2003
Why Bluetooth Bites
Bluetooth is supposed to bridge snippets of information over the air, but will it ever get off the ground? The technologys gestation period has...
Korean PC Makers Protest Intel Centrino Tie-Ins
SEOUL, South Korea—PC makers here are raising red flags about Intel Corp.s cooperative sales and marketing program, which they say is growing too focused...
Samsung to Invest $1 Billion in New LCD Production Line
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electronics last week announced that it has started construction on a new $1 billion mass production line for components of thin-film-transistor...
Cisco Advances Switching Technology
Cisco Systems Inc. in an uncharacteristic move Monday advanced ahead of competitors with new interface technology for its flagship Catalyst 6500 line of Layer...
MarkAny Offers Rights Management Solution for Images
SEOUL, South Korea—MarkAny, a South Korean DRM (digital rights management) solution company, announced last week it has developed DRM tools that restrict the copying...
Brocade Moves to Ease Storage Management
Storage virtualization may finally have found a home in storage networking switches.The latest offerings of the widely hyped but sparsely implemented technology, which lets...
AMD, Fujitsu to Form Flash Memory Company
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd., partners in flash memory development since 1993, are combining their respective flash memory businesses to create a...
Documentum Automates Records Management
Documentum Inc. on Tuesday announced the first release of its records management software product since it bought TrueArc Corp. last November.The new product, Documentum...
Congress Mulls Net Access Tax Ban
A federal moratorium on Internet access taxes expires in November, and advocates of a permanent ban say Internet service providers await a myriad of...
April Fools Pranks Target Security Industry
Several security-related April Fools Day hoaxes began floating around the Internet Tuesday, several of which ruthlessly satirized the security industry and its denizens.From phony...