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Texas Instruments Inc. this week announced its first chipset for EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) networks. The companys TCS3500 chipset will be available to manufacturers in sample volumes in the first quarter, with full production volumes available in the fourth quarter. TI did not disclose the pricing for the TCS3500. Read the full […]

The WiMax Forum this week unveiled a schedule that calls for releasing their first 802.16a-complaint systems by the end of the year. Engineers last week finished work on revision D of .16a. Chip makers said the spec is now stable enough to finish the designs for first-generation chips. About five chip makers including Fujitsu and […]

Colubris Networks Inc. has introduced a series of Wi-Fi products for enterprises and public hot spots. The companys new $899 CN1250 access point incorporates a VPN server with the Wi-Fi access functions. Colubris also is rolling out a new network management system that can manage and analyze network performance. Colubris introduced a “hot spot in […]

You do a great job of insuring your customers. Now its time to insure the data that allows you to serve them so well. As an $18-billion insurance company doing business in an era of heightened threats, your backup systems need to be ready for anything. Better still, they need to be mobile. Mobile data […]

Microsoft has released to its download center the 1.2 version of its Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer product. (Thanks for the link, Bink.) The tool is designed to alert Windows users to potential security misconfigurations. MBSA runs on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 and Windows XP, but checks for security breaches across nearly all of […]

Trend Micro Inc., last week said computer virus attacks cost global businesses an estimated $55 billion in damages in 2003. Spam threats and network viruses will likely become more prevalent in 2004, the company said. “The economic and financial impact of virus attacks will continue to climb in 2004,” Lionel Phang, Trend Micros Managing Director […]

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. this month will ship its InterSpect Internal Security Gateways. The InterSpect line is focused on protecting networks from internal security threats. The gateways come in four editions and will be manufactured by Dell Inc. Dell will not be selling the Check Point appliances Read the full story at ChannelWeb

Gartner Research last week released a study that predicts voice over IP and other converging network technologies make the possibility of a national-level cyberwar possible by 2009. VoIP is the most vulnerable, the report indicates, as the inherent latency found in the communication medium makes it an easy target for an enemy to launch a […]

Veritas Software Corp. this week said it has expanded storage, clustering and server provisioning support for SUSE LINUX and VMware to give customers another alternative to Microsoft Windows, Unix and other platforms. Ranajit Nevatia of Veritas said his company believes the time is right to embrace Linux more than it ever has because the number […]

Innovation by disk drive makers has pushed technology advances roughly twice as fast as Moores Law. Market research firm Trend Focus expects hard drive shipments to consumer electronics makers such as Sony Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others to more than triple to 55 million units in 2006 from an estimated 17 million last year. “Not […]

Larry Ellison, the highflying co-founder and CEO of Oracle, wed his fiancee in a private ceremony last month, Oracle officials confirmed last week. Three-time husband Ellison, 59, married Melanie Craft, 35, at an undisclosed location just before Christmas, according to reports. Officials at Oracle reported in a statement that Ellison got married, but they said […]

Open Text Corp., of Ottawa, is gathering momentum in the enterprise content management arena. The company last year bought Ixos Software AG and Gauss Interprise AG, both of Germany, Eloquent Inc., of San Mateo, Calif., and Corechange Inc., of Boston. CEO Tom Jenkins told eWEEK Executive Editor Stan Gibson and Senior Editor Dennis Callaghan hes […]