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SanDisk in February announced a new line of write-once, read-many (WORM) flash memory cards. The first card types in its Shoot & Store line are Compact Flash, Secure Digital and SmartMedia. By the middle of the year, SanDisk plans to distribute 100-picture (64-megabyte) cards at an initial price of $24.99. Read the full story at […]

As we reported Thursday, Sun Microsystems is indeed meeting privately with IBM to discuss working together on an open source implementation of Java, but the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company wont be talking about it publicly anytime soon, a Sun spokeswoman told NewsForge Friday. We might not have anything to say (publicly) this week, or even […]

Cisco Systems Inc. in late February closed its purchase of Andiamo Systems, paying $750 million for the storage switch maker some 18 months after it agreed to acquire it. Cisco, which already owned 44 percent of Andiamo, spent the last year blending the firms assets, which are designed for high-end storage applications for large data […]

Japans Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) said in February that it will commercialize a new type of read-only storage media that is the size of a postage stamp. Called the Information-Multilayered Imprinted CArd, or Info-MICA, the new media stores data based on the technology of thin-film holography. The company said it expects the new 1GB […]

Worldwide chip revenues are expected to climb 22.6 percent compared with last year, analyst firm Gartner Inc. said in preliminary estimates released this week. In estimates that the firm said were deliberately conservative, Gartner predicted that the market would top $217 billion in 2004, prompted by a PC upgrade cycle and additional spending in wireless […]

Heavily hyped by vendors and consultants alike, PLM technology is no sure thing. To download fact sheet, click here. Strategy Product lifecycle management means different things to different people. In early 2003, Loewen, a Canadian specialty wood window manufacturer based in Steinbach, Manitoba, committed to an initiative to upgrade from a two- to a three-dimensional […]

Sun Microsystems is moving quicker than it originally said it would to respond to IBMs challenge that it set Java free in the open source world. Chief Engineer Rob Gingell and other Sun executives may meet with their Big Blue counterparts as early as today (Friday) to take the dialogue a step further, a Sun […]

When Microsofts top brass admit the company has done a less-than-stellar job of marketing its flagship operating system, somethings got to give. Exactly what that “thing” will be is tough to pin down right now. Microsoft is weighing a number of options, ranging from new mechanisms to deliver functionality “out of band” before Longhorn ships, […]

ASM systems can keep your security systems up to date, probe your network for weaknesses. Setting them up is hard, though, because some of the pieces to standardize ASM are still missing. The answer will depend a lot on how reliable your Web site and network have to be. 1. Customers interact with us through […]

Microsoft Corp. is working on new initiatives that it plans to launch over the next few months that will help Windows compete on a more level playing field with open source. So said Martin Taylor, Microsofts general manager for platform strategy—and the companys main point man on Linux—during a Webcast for financial analysts, shareholders and […]

Microsoft Corp.s information worker team is stepping up its plans to roll out blueprints and methodologies designed to help sell more Office System products. Microsoft officially launched the first of these collections of blueprints, templates and product guidance—”Office Solution Accelerators” in Microsoft parlance—last fall. At the time of its initial launch, Microsoft outlined nine Solution […]

IBM, Gateway Inc. and at least one other notebook maker will roll out systems with integrated fingerprint recognition sensors this year. Sensors that spanned the full fingertip used to cost about $35. Todays thinner slider sensors stitch together multiple slices of an image as a user rolls a fingertip across the sensor and cost as […]