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Faraday Technology Corp. is rolling out a physical layer and a controller core for the Serial ATA II spec aimed at storage devices. The two parts were designed for a 180-nanometer process of foundry United Microelectronics Corp., as opposed to the 130-nm process that competitors such as LSI Logic Corp. and Marvell Semiconductors Inc. use […]

According to market research firm International Data Corp., the market for storage software are on an upward course, with the category posting 4.2 percent sequential growth in the third quarter of 2003. The company expects to record revenues of $1.65 billion for the full year in the storage software market, a sign of a possible […]

Microsoft had been counting on beating the clock by getting its SQL Services 2000 Reporting Services product out the door before the end of 2003. Looks like the team just missed the cut-off date. The company is now saying to expect Reporting Services in January. Keep in mind that this technology originally was not slated […]

Microsoft on Monday announced yet another corporate reshuffling of its Windows department. The overriding message: All the wood is behind one Windows arrow. Its high time Microsoft did something like this. Remember the confusion earlier this year as to whether the company would release both a client and a server version of its next-gen Longhorn […]

SanDisk will provide Palm OS 5.X drivers for its Secure Digital 802.11b device in the first quarter of 2004, a company spokesman said. The company originally said it would deliver the drivers before the end of this year. SanDisk will not provide drivers for Palm OS 4.0 or earlier. Read the full story at Wi-Fi […]

A group of top consumer companies have defined a low cost means for streaming audio to Bluetooth headsets with the Real Time Protocol defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group working group includes Matsushita, Philips, Sony and Toshiba. Microsoft and a group of unnamed OEMs are working on a competing […]

Nearly ten percent of current wireline customers surveyed by Standard & Poors Equity Research Services said they would transfer their wireline numbers to wireless carriers. S&P telecommunications services equity analyst Todd Rosenbluth also said 16 percent of wireless customers are planning to switch carriers once their contracts are up. For most customers, price and quality […]

Backers of competing technologies for ultrawideband have been locked in a standards war in the IEEE 802.15.3a committee. Committee leader Bob Heile said the stalemate will probably last another 12 months. Companies on both sides, multiband OFDM and direct sequence CDMA, will ship non-standard UWB products in the coming year. Read the full story at […]

Bruce Hudson is the Program Director for Enterprise Applications at META Group. I thought his take on RFID implementation was particularly interesting, so invited him to summarize it here. Enjoy! — editor Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology gets a lot of techies hearts racing. Its a new technology for most organizations, and IT departments are […]

Thanks for the link, Neowin. Microsoft tech writers explain in this downloadable document some of the biggest changes on tap Service Pack 2 — the first beta of which is due for unveiling any day now.

At 3:20 AM PST on Wednesday, December 10, 2003, the UCSD Network Telescope began to receive backscatter traffic indicating a distributed denial-of-service attack against the SCO Group. Early in the attack, unknown perpetrators targeted SCOs web servers with a SYN flood of approximately 34,000 packets per second. In real world terms, the attack caused SCO […]

I know, I know, Im about three weeks early for my annual predictions column, but I want to come right out and say it: 2004 is going to be a big year for Linux. Big in terms of its corporate enterprise adoption, which, according to every industry observer I spoke with, should continue apace or […]