Monthly Archives: October 2005
IBM, Gateway Make Dual-Core Xeon Servers
IBM and Gateway Inc. are preparing to bring Intel Corp.s upcoming dual-core Xeon processors into IBMs server lines.
In addition, IBM is adding a pricing...
Symantec Channel Changes Hands
Symantec Corp.s channel chief, Allyson Seelinger, is stepping down from her post Oct. 14, to be replaced by Julie Parrish, former head of Veritas...
Lenovo Bundles StarOffice on ThinkPads
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. have announced an agreement to bundle the StarOffice 8 office suite in Lenovos latest ThinkPad R51e notebook.In...
Flock Promises More Social Web Browsing
At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a California startup is set to announce on Thursday a new Web browser based on open-source...
HP Discounts Its Last iPods
Thats all, folks. Hewlett-Packard Co. is discounting its HP-brand iPods in an effort to sell off its remaining inventory of the portable music players.
The...
Envisioning a Grid Future
If you are like me, you have probably followed the entire discussion around grid computing with a detached sense of curiosity: a feeling that...
Storage Digest: News from Imation, Overland Storage, Zantaz, Tandberg, Dot Hill, Fujitsu, Zimbra, EV
Imation introduces a disk-enhanced removable media cartridge and Overland Storage announces a RAID expansion array. Zantaz releases a new version of EAS while Tandberg...
EU Hires Criminologist to Monitor Microsoft
The European Commission has appointed a British cybercrime expert to assist in overseeing Microsofts compliance with a 2004 antitrust decision.
Neil Barrett was one of...
Nematodes: The Making of Beneficial Network Worms
Convinced that businesses will use nonmalicious worms to cut down on network security costs, a high-profile security researcher is pushing ahead with a new...
Kill Pests, Dont Spread Them
The idea of a "good worm" is obviously a tempting one. Youd think that white-hatted researchers would want to be responsible with their clients...