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Microsoft Corp. used its recent annual WinHEC conference in Seattle to give more specifics about the roadmap for the release of Longhorn, the next version of Windows, as well as to talk up potential future adoption of 64-bit computing. Jim Allchin, Microsofts group vice president of platforms, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli […]

Verbatim Corp. last week announced that Philips Format Verification Laboratory has certified its new 8.5GB Double-Layer DVD+R (DVD+R DL) media as fully compliant with the DVD+R DL standard. Double-Layer DVD+R technology was developed by Verbatims parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM) in collaboration with Philips and other DVD+RW Alliance members. Verbatim 8.5GB Double-Layer DVD+R media […]

LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. last week filed for an IPO and the company also filed an application for listing with the New York Stock Exchange to trade under the ticker symbol “NGE.” The new company will operate under the name Engenio Information Technologies Inc., separating from its parent company LSI Logic Corp. Read the […]

Breece Hill LLC. last week announced a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) appliance for small and medium-sized businesses. The iStoRA 4000 is a 4U rackmountable, combined-media data protection appliance for backup, recovery, and archival. The product features a 1.5TB Serial ATA (SATA) disk array and a tape autoloader with a choice of tape formats and capacities up to […]

German automaker BMW and Hewlett-Packard will collaborate to provide access to online services via mobile devices linked to an in-car 802.11 WLAN. The network connects to a printer and PC notebook in the back seats that can be folded away into the central armrest when not in use. The product is likely to be commercially […]

The piecemeal approach to information security has lead many companies to unwittingly purchasing and managing overlapping security solutions, according to security vendor Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc. The company said an integrated approach would cost $48,200 against $178,000 for point products for 1,000 users. Inspecting the same piece of traffic numerous times doesnt make much sense, […]

Officials of two trade associations representing several companies doing peer-to-peer file sharing this week said that they are cooperating with the FBI to crack down on child-pornography purveyors. One group, P2P United, hopes to develop a system similar to the once-common placement of missing childrens pictures on milk cartons. Five U.S. senators this week sent […]

Network Associates Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. this week announced an Internet gateway and desktop security product that allows small businesses to outsource their virus-protection and security-management needs. McAfee Secure-1 delivers managed firewall and virus protection, as well as VPN and content filtering. The product delivers out-of-the-box functionality that requires minimal IT savvy, […]

/zimages/1/17485.gifYour company may not be making calls using Internet standards now, but it will—eventually. So far, though, the cost to switch from conventional phone systems often outweighs savings. Baseline0304-WB1-IPtelphnyQuiz Internet Protocol (IP) telephone systems convert the sounds of voices to bits and then pipe those over communications lines using the same Internet standards used to […]

The cost of “phishing” for U.S. Banks and credit card issuers last year was $1.2 billion, according to a new Gartner Research study. Gartner said 57 million Americans received a “phished” e-mail last year, with 76 percent of the attacks have occurring in the last 6 months. The Gartner survey was based on a limited […]

The Predictive Model Markup Language ultimately will provide applications with a method of defining statistical and data-mining models and the ability to share them with other PMML-compliant applications, but vendors like IBM and SAS say theyll have to deviate from the standard until at least Version 3.0. In the meantime, the companies have developed PMML […]

Besides all the autonomic computing features featured in IBMs next-generation database, code-named “Stinger,” theres plenty to keep business-intelligence fans happy. One major feature is a revamped DB2 Design Advisor, which IBM claims is ideally suited for data-warehousing applications. Also well be seeing updated DB2 Cube Views that allow for the definition of OLAP-centric meta data; […]