Monthly Archives: February 2004
The Death of Bluetooth: Intel Moves to Ultrawideband
At the Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday Intel announced the company was giving up on the deadlocked Ultrawideband IEEE task group and going it...
SPOT Watch Service Blinks
Customers of Microsoft Corp.s new MSN Direct service experienced a major service interruption on Thursday, as the services Web site displayed error messages and...
Microsoft: No MS Office for Linux
The rumors just wont die: Someone, somewhere is working on porting Microsoft Office to Linux. This weeks version making the rounds online: IBM Corp....
MySQL AB to Tweak Open-Source License
MySQL ABs open-source database license has long confused ISVs and others who want to support MySQL but arent sure whether they need to purchase...
NetSky.B Worm Gains More Traction
A new mass-mailing worm, called NetSky.B, is spreading rapidly after beginning to make the rounds of e-mail inboxes on Tuesday.
NetSky.B is a variant of...
Cisco Exercises Power over Ethernet with New 802.3af Modules
Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced it is bringing its Catalyst LAN switches up to speed with IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet, thanks to...
Cisco Adds Video to the V in VOIP
Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday added video to the "V" in VOIP when it launched Call Manager 4.0 along with a new desktop video conferencing...
Zantaz Acquires Archiving Vendor Educom
Zantaz Inc. this week acquired on-site e-mail archiving company Educom TS Inc. for an undisclosed amount.The combined company will provide end-to-end e-communications management solutions...
Network Appliance Doubles Quarterly Profits
Network Appliance Inc., a k a NetApp, recently said that its fiscal third-quarter profit more than doubled as companies spent more on technology used...
Sandial Switch Surfaces
Sandial Systems Inc. this week released its first storage-switch product and clarified its strategy.Sandials Shadow 14000 Storage Backbone Switch uses time-division multiplexing to regulate...