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Proxim Corp. said Thursday that it plans to ship fixed and portable versions of WiMax technology next year through a partnership with Intel. Intel, which is developing WiMax (or IEEE 802.16) silicon for shipment later this year, said it will work with Proxim to develop bases stations based on the technology early next year, then […]

Veritas Software Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. this week said that users of NetBackup 5.1 and NetBackup 5.1 Advanced Client can now automatically create snapshots on NetApp filers. Glenn Groshans, director of product marketing at Veritas, said the release of NetBackup 5.1 and its support for snapshots is the first of three projects mapped out […]

EMC Corp. and Connected Corp. this week announced sales of data protection technologies to three telecommunication companies. T-Com, Bell Canada and Royal KPN will use provide archival services to their customers using EMCs Clariion arrays and Centera content addressed storage server and Connecteds DataProtector/PC data capture and restoration software. The storage system extend the companys […]

How committed is IBM to the open-source movement? Officially, IBM is the worlds loudest promoter of open-source software, spending millions to run Linux advertisements and fund an open-source development lab, and devoting hundreds of its own programmers to cranking out open-source code. So it is strange, rivals say, that in the field, IBMs sales reps […]

Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) has undergone a lot of changes during the past year. But its most extreme make-over is yet to come. MBS—the beleaguered Microsoft business unit that encompasses Microsofts four ERP lines, its CRM product and whats left of its bCentral small-business online unit—is under the microscope right now. Outsiders are paying close […]

Microsoft hasnt said much publicly, in terms of the feature tweaks it made between the March Release Candidate (RC) 1 beta of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the RC2 variant that it made available for download this week. Theres no list of new features in the RC2 Fact Sheet. But members of the XP […]

The world must wait until late July at the earliest until Microsoft Corp. delivers the final release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). But that isnt stopping testers and customers from asking what Microsofts intentions are, in terms of back-porting the SP2 updates and fixes to other Microsoft operating systems and related products. Despite […]

From Microsoft Watch: Microsoft wont be done with Service Pack (SP) 2 once it ships the final late this summer. The company has plans to back-port a number of the SP2 technologies (code-named “Springboard”) to other Microsoft products. Microsoft isnt saying much on its plans on this front, but some of its testers are talking. […]

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Outsourcer Keane Inc. emerged from the dot-com boom and bust and the Y2K aftermath with an emphasis on application outsourcing. Keane this year acquired Nims Associates Inc., a Midwestern systems integrator. Last year, the company purchased majority ownership of Worldzen, renaming the Chicago- based BPO specialist Keane Worldzen. In 2002, Keane purchased SignalTree Solutions Holding […]

Virtual Private Network (VPN) and firewall hardware and software sales were $733 million worldwide in the first quarter of this year, according to Infonetics Research Inc. Sales increased 11 percent over the last quarter of 2003. Cisco was the market share leader among VPN vendors with double-digit growth this quarter. Read the full story at […]

The Recording Industry Association of America last week said the Federal Communications Commission should impose restrictions on recording digital radio broadcasts. RIAA officials said digital-radio players could soon allow listeners to record certain songs automatically when they are broadcast, allowing them to build a free library of music they otherwise might pay for and distribute […]