Monthly Archives: April 2004
Study: Virus Attacks Up But Infections Hold Steady
Last year more viruses raced across the Internet than ever, according to a new study from ICSA Labs. The approximate 300 companies surveyed in...
Linux Loyalists Leery
Two years ago, when Rick Carey was chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, he was crazy about Linux and especially about Red Hat, the...
Hitachi Announces Sturdy Mobile Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies this week announced Travelstar 4K40, a ruggedized version of its 2.5-inch mobile disk drive.The company said it has increased the...
Whos More Secure Than Whom?
Many thanks to my colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, editor of our Linux & Open Source Center, for referring a recent Forrester Research report to...
Olixir Mobile DataVault FastRestore SE
When disaster strikes, its important to get up and running as rapidly as possible. Unfortunately, tape backup is expensive and slow, so a few...
Introducing the Health Center
Scientists who want to study interactions of proteins and genes rarely talk to the clinicians collecting data from human drug trials, let alone the...
WebEx Ties Web Conferencing with IP Phones
In a move furthering the reach of Web conferencing, WebEx Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it has integrated its online meeting service with a...
Health Care Industry Increases Use of Clinical Portals
The actual cost of drug development is a matter of debate, since companies are stingy when it comes to releasing data. But one things...
Improved WiFi Repeaters Due in 2005
A Florida-based WiFi startup is developing chips to enable full-duplex WiFi repeaters, a step up from the half-duplex repeaters in use today.
WiDeFi Inc. of...
International Sequencing Consortium Creates Online Resource
A free, online resource for scientists and the public to get the latest information on projects sequencing various animal, plant and other eukaryotic genomes...