Monthly Archives: December 2004
Cisco Turns 20, Turns to Networking
Twenty years ago Friday, Cisco Systems Inc. was founded by a pair of computer scientists interested in computer networking. Nowadays, the company is the...
Programs to Test Chronic Care Strategies
CMS (Centers for Medicaid and Medicare) this week announced its picks for companies to participate in 10 experimental programs to manage care of patients...
Latest Google Experiment Suggests Popular Queries
Google Inc. introduced an experimental search service Friday that automatically suggests queries as a user types search terms.
Called Google Suggest, the service is similar...
Playboy Virus Dropping Dangerous Backdoor
Anti-virus vendors have raised the alarm for a new mass-mailing worm with a dangerous backdoor component.The worm, called W32.Maslan.C@mm, arrives as an attachment promising...
Windows Server R2 Goes to 1,000 Beta Testers
Microsoft quietly delivered a first private beta release of Windows Server "R2" to the first of about 1,000 testers Wednesday, company officials confirmed Friday.
Meanwhile,...
Zetta Systems Flies Under the Storage Radar
Zetta Systems Inc., a small vendor with a storage solution that boasts high levels of storage provisioning, data protection, replication and capacity planning, is...
Cisco File Software Aims to Tame Distributed Enterprise
Cisco Systems Actona acquisition will bear fruit next week when Cisco launches its new Wide Area File Services offering.The application performance optimization software is...
Sun Thin Client Gives Users Room to Work
Sun Microsystems Inc. rolled out a new, all-in-one desktop client for its Sun Ray thin-client computing architecture Friday. The Sun Ray 170 "ultra-thin" client,...
Flash Makes Splash in Gadgets
Flash is winding its way into a growing number of gadgets and devices, thanks to the efforts of engineering services firm Vibren.
Although Macromedia normally...
Palmisano: PC Biz Didnt Fit into IBMs On-Demand Model
In the end, IBMs PC business no longer meshed with the on-demand technology model the company has been molding for the past several years,...