Monthly Archives: January 2005
Broadcom Gives VOIP Chip a Speed Boost
Broadcom Corp. has upgraded its integrated voice-over-IP chip to Gigabit Ethernet speeds, company officials said Monday.
The BCM1103 component is designed to sit within a...
Juniper in Search of Wireless LAN Switching Firm
Consider Juniper Networks Inc. among the many networking companies scrambling to improve their wireless portfolios.
According to sources, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company is working to...
Health IT Infrastructure Could Net Big Savings
A national system for electronic health information could save as much as $78 billion dollars a year, or about 5 percent of current health...
Slew of Fears Slows Open-Source Uptake
The biggest question facing open-source developers is, after Linux, what can be done to spur efforts toward complete open-source software stacks?
After researching open-source use...
Microsoft Cites IP Defense in Blogger Crackdown
On the heels of Apple Computers attempt to crack down on journalists for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets, some free-speech advocates are worried that Microsoft...
Projections Cut for Online Mortgages
Jupiter Research is backing off its growth projections for online mortgages published in 2003, mostly thanks to customer fear of providing personal information online....
Microsoft Tests Search Clustering
Microsoft Research is testing a search toolbar that utilizes an experimental search result clustering (SRC) technique to automatically categorize search results into groups by...
How Significant Is SCOs Win?
How significant was The SCO Group Inc.s victory in its discovery motion over IBM in the companies ongoing battle over Linux copyright and Unix...
Transmeta May License Power-Management Tech
It will be another couple of months before Transmeta Corp. gets a clear idea of what its reorganized company will look like.
Executives with the...
Microsoft, Let Go of My NT!
To paraphrase a famous 17th-century playwright: Alas, poor Windows NT, I knew it, Bill: An OS of many blue screens, of most excellent fancy:...