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Hewlett-Packard Co. this week introduced an update to its entry-level MSA line of storage arrays that can use either SCSI or Serial ATA drives. The MSA1500 will support a mix of the two sometime in the third quarter of this year. The storage array will support a maximum of 8TB of SCSI or 24TB of […]

Nine products stood above all others in their respective categories at this years CeBIT America technology trade show—and were thus honored by eWEEK and PC Magazine with Best of CeBIT awards. After combing through product submissions from CeBIT exhibitors, the editors of eWEEK and PC Magazine selected nine as the best of the thousands of […]

T-Mobile USAs parent company, Deutsche Telekom , this week said it would acquire the California and Nevada networks of rival Cingular Wireless for about $2.5 billion. The changes shouldnt affect customers of T-Mobile or Cingular in any noticeable way, both companies said. The deal, which would probably not take effect until 2005, is contingent upon […]

Wi-Lan Inc., based in Alberta, Canada, recently acquired 17 U.S. patents and patent applications in its plans to produce what it calls the first WiMax certified system. Wi-Lan will pay about $3.9 million in cash and $3.6 million in shares to an undisclosed seller under the terms of the deal. Read the full story at […]

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. is planning to deliver updates to its Exchange Server product every two years and is considering a similar move to deliver SQL Server updates in a more timely manner, company officials said at the TechEd 2004 conference here. The moves to deliver more frequent, smaller updates—rather than waiting years between major releases […]

SAN DIEGO—Its been two years since Microsoft issued any official pronouncements on “TrustBridge,” its collection of federated identity-management technologies slated to go head-to-head with competing technologies backed by the Liberty Alliance. When Microsoft went public with its TrustBridge plans in June 2002, Redmond officials said to expect the first TrustBridge deliverables to hit in 2003 […]

SAN DIEGO — Its been two years since Microsoft issued any official pronouncements on “TrustBridge,” its collection of federated-identity-management technologies slated to go head-to-head with compteing technologies backed by the Liberty Alliance. When Microsoft went public with its TrustBridge plans in June 2002, Redmond officials said to expect the first TrustBridge deliverables to hit in […]

When a start-up firm called OSRM (Open Source Risk Management) announced two months ago that it planned to offer standard product liability insurance to Linux users and developers, many in the Linux community wondered why. For some, such coverage appeared to be an unwarranted admission that there was something wrong with Linux. Sure, vendor specific […]

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) last year decided to make a clean break from the past. The Torrance, Calif.-based finance and insurance subsidiary of Toyota Motor has run a homegrown call-center application for more than 15 years to help manage $42 billion in assets. And it had become clear that the mainframe system, which provides 1,200 […]

SAN DIEGO—If you thought Microsoft was tightly integrating its products before, wait until you see what its planning to do in the future. Taking the companys “integrated innovation” charge a step further, Andy Lees, the Microsoft corporate VP in charge of server and tools marketing, focused his Tuesday morning TechEd 2004 keynote here on the […]

Lite-On IT last week launched an 8x DVD Dual DL (single-sided, double-layer disc) burner and a 12x DVD Dual burner. The dual layer burner is compatible with both DVD+RW and DVD-RW. The drives are available in the Taiwan market. Lite-On IT and BenQ will make OEM DVD+RW double-layer (DL) burners for Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard […]

iVivity Inc. recently received $26 million in third-round funding, bringing its total funding to date to more than $50 million. The storage networking company will transition its focus from research and development to delivering products and services, according to David Coombs, iVivity CEO. iVivity said its iDiSX intelligent “storage server on chip” processor is built […]