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GSM Association Calls for MMS Push The GSM Association last week issued a rallying call to the wireless industry to speed the arrival of enhanced, fully-interoperable Multi-media Messaging Services (MMS) services and devices. One objective of the GSMAs Board is that 3G Partnership Projects Release 4 specifications concerning network functionality are implemented by December 2003, […]

FASL LLC, the joint venture between AMD and Fujitsu dedicated to the production of flash memory, was officially incorporated on Monday. The new venture will sell flash products under the “Spansion” brand name. FASL was formed at the end of March by the two companies. AMD will own 60 percent of the new company, and […]

Enterprise Storage SAS Technology Demo Counted a Success LSI Logic Corp., Seagate Technology LLC and Maxtor Corp. last week demonstrated LSI Logics SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) controller and expander executing SCSI write and read commands to Seagates and Maxtors SAS disk drives. This first public demo is important from a hardware perspective and the technology […]

Sounds as if Microsoft is remaking its TrustBridge technology into part of its identity-authentication suite of server products. This report says Microsoft announced at this weeks Burton Group Catalyst event that it will turn TrustBridge into a security server. The new TrustBridge server will ship around the same time as Longhorn — 2005+. How TrustBridge […]

Intellectual Property More than one billion illegally-copied compact discs were sold last year, a new industry study said on Thursday. In 2002 the sale of pirated CD copies rose 14 percent to 1.1 billion units from the previous year and has more than doubled in the past three years, turning a street-corner trade into an […]

In the most curious fit of corporate communications confusion since the iLoo, news stories this week noted both that Wal-Mart was abandoning its smart-shelf trial and that it was affirming its embrace of the technology over the next x years. It looks like Wal-Mart may need RFID tags simply to track its own schizophrenic direction. […]

Enterprise Storage New HP Developer Program Targets Bluefin Standards Hewlett-Packard Corp. this week launched a newdeveloper program designed for building storage systems. Based on the Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S), previously known as “Bluefin,” the HP SMI-S Developers Program will simplify the interoperability challenges developers often face when managing multi-vendor network storage, the company said. […]

Wal-Mart Cancels Smart-Shelf Trial Wal-Mart Stores has unexpectedly canceled testing for an experimental wireless inventory control system, ending one of the first and most closely watched efforts to bring radio frequency identification technology to store shelves in the United States. A Wal-Mart representative this week said that the retail giant will not conduct a planned […]

Storage giant EMC Corp. today announced its acquisition of backup software player Legato Systems Inc. for approximately $1.3 billion in stock. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., has bought nine smaller companies since beginning its software blitz in early 2000. Larger deals were for Conley Corp., of an undisclosed sum in 1998; Softworks Inc. for $192 million […]

Enterprise Storage StorageTek Releases Virtual Storage Manager 4 Storage Technology Corp. this week introduced a new version of its Virtual Storage Manager virtual tape solution, featuring performance and connectivity enhancements that extend the value and power of StorageTeks VSM platform. VSM 4 offers quadrupled capacity and virtual drive capabilities and has improved performance and connectivity. […]

Privacy An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled. Many companies have recently begun requiring users to pass a verification test in order to access their services — typically by typing into a Web […]