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Forget market share: If you want to gauge the enduring vitality of the Mac, just take a look at the wellspring of Web sites focused on Apple Computer and its computing platform. Mac-focused sites were early arrivals among the current range of technology-driven Internet offerings, and their growing numbers play a key role in setting […]

LAS VEGAS—Call it Comdex writers block: After a couple of days at the show here, I grew concerned that I wouldnt discover anything worth column space. The mobile products from major vendors that I could talk about had been announced some time ago, and the really hot new gear remains under wraps until CES. Then […]

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. on Thursday reported that it lost $136.2 million for its fiscal year 2004, with revenue of $525.3 million, down 6.5 percent from last year. For the fourth quarter, the storage switch manufacturer earned $14.8 million on $137.8 million in revenue, officials said, compared to $1.9 million on $133.5 last quarter and […]

A high-profile member of Microsoft Corp.s information-worker business unit is stepping down, about a year after being recruited to Microsoft by Group Vice President Jeff Raikes. Joe Eschbach, Microsofts corporate VP of the Information Worker Product Management Group, resigned from the company in November, according to the companys Web site. A Microsoft spokeswoman said that […]

To help enterprises understand and implement information life cycle management technologies, Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended its partnership with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. Customers of both companies will benefit, as HP can learn from Cap Geminis business process and vertical market expertise, and Cap Gemini will get 100 of its storage architects trained on […]

German company Cryptophone has unveiled a new mobile handset with encryption software. The phone ensures that calls can only be decoded by a similar handset or a computer running the software. The software runs on a Microsoft-based XDA handheld computer phone made by Taiwans High Tech Computer. Read the full story at Reuters

Network Appliance Inc. earned $48.4 million on $275.6 million in revenue for its second fiscal quarter of 2004, officials said Tuesday. Both figures are significantly better than the prior quarters numbers of $27.1 million on $260.5 million and the year-ago quarters $15.8 million on $215.2 million. “I am very pleased with our results and our […]

Microsoft has committed to training and educating more than 500,000 people in the coming year about security. This week, company officials reached out to some of them with a security Webcast. But theres more to come — a lot more. Microsoft has christened the first week of December as its TechNet Security Webcast Week. Tune […]

Microsoft Corp. has a lot to do in the next year to deliver on its security promises. But the companys come a long way since it launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative. That was the message from Mike Nash, the corporate VP in charge of Microsofts Security Business Unit. Nash reiterated Microsofts security priorities as part […]

Internet The Internet Engineering Task Force is close to releasing a security mechanism for authenticating data moving across the Internet. DNS-Sec, which stands for domain name system-security, places a digital signature on each domain name and corresponding IP (Internet protocol) address stored in a DNS server. A browser requesting the IP address of a domain […]

Motorola tightened its ties to ultrawide-band startup XtremeSpectrum, purchasing the company outright in a deal announced last week. XtremeSpectrum is one of the companies that is working on products supporting high-data-rate personal networking wireless communications using the IEEE 802.15.3a standard. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In other acquisition news, Hewlett-Packard announced the purchase […]

In last years Tech Outlook 2003 special report, the outlook was pretty grim. The eWEEK Corporate Partners who participated in a roundtable discussion for that report were looking to make the most of existing products and personnel. During a roundtable discussion held earlier this month for the Tech Outlook 2004 report and moderated by eWEEK […]