Monthly Archives: June 2003
How Much Is a Dollars Worth of Bits?
Call me old-fashioned, but a byte used to be worth eight whole bits, and every one of those bits represented a choice: yes or...
Palm Shows its Looking Out for No. 1 Again
Palms recent device releases have been encouraging, suggesting that the firm is focused on retaining the mantle of handheld computing leadership its held since...
Dutkowsky Makes Case for PeopleSoft Deal
The plot thickened Monday in the enterprise software industrys high-stakes acquisition drama as Oracle Corp. sought to remove one of the barriers to its...
Happy Birthday, RAID
The storage industry this month celebrates the 15th anniversary of RAID, a now-fundamental technology that supports the great ocean of data served up to...
Ellison to Conway: Lets Meet
Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison early Monday afternoon sent a letter urging PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway to avoid jamming up Oracles...
Apple: iSync, Therefore I Jam
Its often hard to tell whether Apple is in denial or just decoying before it barrels into a market. For instance, the company was...
Storage Web Digest: Disk Storage Sales Down a Bit, SAN Way Up
Enterprise StorageDisk Storage Sales Still Down, SAN Way UpStorage sales are stabilizing, though still in decline, research firm IDC said late last week in...
Sun Lays Out Storage Roadmap
Sun Microsystems Inc. is continuing to define storage aspects of its already announced N1 initiative for future data center architectures.There is no central storage...
Qualcomm Closes Wireless Knowledges Doors
Qualcomm Inc. is shuttering its Wireless Knowledge subsidiary.Officials at the San Diego-based company confirmed last week that they are discontinuing the Wireless Knowledge product...
Trusted Computing—Threat, Menace, or Joke?
There is a growing buzz about the initiative known as Trusted Computing, as outlined at the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) Web site. The...