Monthly Archives: August 2004
Passport ID Technology Has High Error Rate
The State Department is moving ahead with a plan to implant electronic identification chips in U.S. passports that will allow computer matching of facial...
FCC Moves to Ban Spam on Mobile Phones
The Federal Communications Commission this week said it would set up a list of Internet domains used by mobile phone carriers to help keep...
Intel Chips Away at RAID
Intel Corp. this week announced a new storage processor that improves RAID storage performance over previous generations. The IOP332 Storage I/O Processor employs DDR2...
HP Expands Low-End Storage Offerings
Hewlett-Packard Co. this week announced a storage array that supports either SCSI or Serial ATA (SATA) disk enclosures behind a single controller shelf. The...
Customer-Data Needs Drive Storage Growth
The storage networking market will continue to grow 10 percent annually for the next five years, according to a Yankee Group report announced this...
PlayStation 3 to Use Blu-ray Disc
Sony Corp. this week said its PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray discs. The PS3 will come equipped with the Blu-Ray technology allowing playback of...
Ohio to Allow Unemployment Claims Online
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)— Out-of-work Ohioans in a few weeks will skip the unemployment line for online, as the state replaces a more than 20-year-old...
Dont Toss That Personal Firewall
The new firewall in Windows XP Service Pack 2 is not by any means the most important security advance in the service pack. Other...
IT Managers: Windows XP Update Not a Priority
Microsoft may have delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2 yet again this week, but IT managers are, in any case, not exactly champing at...
GDSN Launched for Global E-Business
Wal-Mart and Proctor & Gamble are among the enterprises that will soon start testing the GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network), an Internet-based supply chain...