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The new Titan SiliconServer modular network storage appliance from BlueArc enables customers to scale storage capacity in tandem with application server and enterprise data growth. This will lengthen the life cycle of storage products, officials said. The Titan, to be unveiled this week, allows a single file system to grow to 256 terabytes and utilizes […]

Qualcomm embraced open-source last week, saying it plans to run its wireless development extranet on Linux servers. More than 200 clustered IBM eServer x335 systems running Red Hat Linux will host Qualcomms BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) extranets. Developers can download from the cluster tools necessary to create BREW-based wireless applications for mobile phones.

Looks like Microsofts infamous “Just the Facts” campaign isnt just a state-side one. The Economic Times of India notes that Microsoft is mounting an almost identical anti-Linux strategy there. Given growing doubts over the impartiality of Microsofts “facts, its somewhat surprising the company is pushing ahead with this one.

When Microsoft launched its so-called “Smarter Retailing Initiative” in mid-January, company officials said Microsoft planned to support radio frequency identification (RFID) but didnt offer specifics. However, the Redmond software company on Monday offered additional details as to how and when it plans to add RFID support to at least some of its software. Over the […]

One year after the SQL Slammer worm struck, the lessons it left are still valid: SQL Server and MSDE are everywhere, telecommuters systems must be kept updated, keeping systems patched are crucial, and UDP worms are lethal. Read the full story at SearchSecurity.com.

Oracle has taken over SiteWorks Solutions, a Memphis firm that supplies management software to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and research institutions for clinical trials. Read the full story at InternetNews.com.

Oracles current Chief Financial Officer and soon-to-be new chairman, Jeff Henley, will start his new job $5.3 million richer after having exercised options and having sold Oracle shares last month. Read the full story at Mercury News.

If youve read eWeeks ongoing SCO coverage or read Groklaw every day, you wont find much new in the Salt Lake City Weeklys SCO overview, but if you want a quick and up to date view of the story so far, this tale is pretty decent and includes some new comments from SCOs CEO Darl […]

Microsoft watchers are questioning yet again Microsofts intentions toward XML, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Extensible Markup Language standard. Last year, Microsoft released publicly its Word 2003, Excel 2003 and InfoPath 2003 XML schemas. The company made the schemas freely downloadable from its own Web site, and in the case of WordXML, also via a […]

America Online Inc. is conducting a trial of a new anti-spoofing e-mail protocol called Sender Permitted From, or SPF, across its entire user base of 33 million subscribers. SPF stops e-mail address spoofing by modifying the Domain Name System (DNS) to declare which servers can send mail from a particular Internet domain. AOL is using […]

Compression software companies PKWare Inc. and WinZip Computing Inc. have agreed to make their rival approaches to encrypting zip files more compatible. Both companies have agreed to support the others password-based decryption. The agreement eases fears that the ubiquitous Zip standard could become fragmented by incompatible methods of encryption. Read the full story at The […]

Military personnel and other U.S. citizens located overseas will be able to cast their ballots online for some primary and general elections this year under the Defense Departments Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, rather than casting absentee ballots by mail. But several computer-science professors this week said the U.S. government should abandon an Internet-voting […]