Monthly Archives: February 2004
The 3D Gaming—Cell Phone?
The race for better graphics performance on PCs is a long-standing tradition. Now ATI and others want to take cell-phone graphics to the next...
P2P Problems
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are having more problems than just dramatic declines in download numbers. Security company TruSecure, through its division ICSA Labs, warned...
DOJ Staff Recommends Against Oracle Takeover of PeopleSoft
The U.S. Department of Justices Antitrust Division opposes Oracle Corp.s $9.4 billion takeover bid of PeopleSoft Inc. and has recommended to senior officials of...
Cognos Improves Planning Integration
Cognos Inc. on Tuesday announced Enterprise Planning Series 7.2, an upgrade the company said will ease some of the integration headaches of its predecessors.The...
What Will Become the Next Scion of Psion?
David Potter, founder and chairman of Psion, is not a financier. Hes a genuine geek. So when he pulls out of Symbian--and make no...
W3C Approves Pair of Semantic Web Specs
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the approval of two Semantic Web technologies as standards.Janet Daly, a spokeswoman for the W3C, of Cambridge,...
Java Tools Subscribers Get Free Hardware
In a move likened to the cellular phone industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced a promotion around its Java enterprise development platform where it...
3PAR, Maranti Find Further Funding
Maranti Networks Inc. and 3PARdata Inc. recently announced a new funding rounds.Maranti reported $26 million in third-round funding, just two months after the company...
New Chips Pave Way for Faster Storage
Intel Corp. recently debuted a batch of optical transceivers that could double the speed of current Fibre Channel storage systems without significantly increasing costs,...
Maxtor Demos SAS Prototype Hard Disk
Maxtor Corp. on Wednesday said it had verified of full-speed, 3GB-per-second data transfers with an LSI Logic Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller and an...