Monthly Archives: January 2005
Verbatim Hedges Next-Gen DVD Bets
Verbatim Corp. and its parent, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, said Monday that the media manufacturer will support both Blu-Ray and HD DVD, the two competing...
Maxtor Enters Home NAS Market
Maxtor Corp. said Monday that it had entered the network-storage market with Maxtor Shared Storage, a product for the home and small office.
The Shared...
Oracle Ships 10g for Mac OS X
Oracle Corp. quietly began shipping Oracle Database 10g and Oracle JDeveloper 10g for the Mac OS X Server in late December, an Oracle spokesperson...
Microsoft Readies A1 Security Subscription Service
Publicly, Microsoft continues to be cagey about packaging and pricing plans for its anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions. But privately, Microsoft has begun informing partners...
Lenovo Must Invest to Keep IBM Brands Lure
This is one of these "and then the other shoe dropped" stories, and it involves the IBM-Lenovo deal that sent Big Blues PC business...
New WINS Exploits Making Rounds
Almost a month after Microsoft released a fix for a security issue in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) name server, malicious exploits continue...
Apple Rumors Fly as Macworld Nears
Unlike most computer manufacturers, Apple shrouds its product plans in secrecy, often unveiling surprise announcements at its annual Macworld expo and usually leading to...
UPS Picks Barnes to Replace Lacy as CIO
United Parcel Services on Tuesday announced the retirement of its CIO, Ken Lacy, and the immediate appointment of Dave Barnes to succeed him.
Barnes, 48,...
Tapping CES for Enterprise Tips
We know that the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest, coolest technology to be consumed by the masses,...
Apple Soups Up Xserve, Ships Xsan
Apple Computer Inc. took aim at the data center on Tuesday, unveiling a new version of its Xserve line of rack-mountable servers and announcing...