Monthly Archives: February 2004
Getting a Lock on Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
When it comes to the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002, the key to compliance at Master Lock Co. is integrated systems. Master Lock, the worlds...
SanDisk Releases Consumable Flash Memory
SanDisk in February announced a new line of write-once, read-many (WORM) flash memory cards.The first card types in its Shoot & Store line are...
Sun meeting with IBM, but not talking open source Java — yet
As we reported Thursday, Sun Microsystems is indeed meeting privately with IBM to discuss working together on an open source implementation of Java, but...
Cisco Seals Deal for Storage Switch Maker
Cisco Systems Inc. in late February closed its purchase of Andiamo Systems, paying $750 million for the storage switch maker some 18 months after...
NTT Develops Stamp-Sized 1GB Mobile Media
Japans Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) said in February that it will commercialize a new type of read-only storage media that is the size...
K8Xtreme Burns Disks at 8X Speeds
Kano Technologies K8Xtreme External DVD burner writes data to DVD+R and DVD-R formats at 8x write speeds.
This is the first drive Ive seen that...
Open-Source Advocates Applaud Open Java
Eric S. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, started it; IBM pursued it; and now Sun Microsystems Inc. is offering to talk with...
Intel Publishes More Efficient Power Supply Spec
Intel Corp. published a specification for improving the efficiency of a PCs power supply Thursday, an effort an environmental nonprofit applauded.Version 2.0 of Intels...
Gartner Predicts Strong Chip Growth in 2004
Worldwide chip revenues are expected to climb 22.6 percent compared with last year, analyst firm Gartner Inc. said in preliminary estimates released this week.In...
Oracles Cost-Cutting Wont Snag SQL Server-ites
Oracle declared a price war on Microsoft when it cut the price of its entry-level database to match that of SQL Server earlier this...