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Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has bought a Canadian company that makes processors used in building optical networking equipment. Intel said that West Bay Semiconductor Inc.s line of networking chips focus on data speeds of 2.5 gigabits per second or less, which will complement Intels lineup of 10 gigabit-per-second chips. Intel, of Santa […]

My previous column on the challenges to Nintendos Game Boy Advance attracted a range of lengthy, passionate, and often well-reasoned responses. Because most of those who wrote considered themselves “gamers” or what the industry might consider “hardcore gamers,” more concern centered around Sonys entry into the mobile game market than the growing fleet of cell […]

On June 22, 2000, Microsoft Corp. announced a new strategy and vision for the company known as .Net, which it claimed would completely change the way companies use the Internet and transform Microsofts business. Neil Charney, the director of Microsofts Platform Strategy Group, talked to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli last week about how far […]

Peregrine Systems continued its long slog out of bankruptcy last week with the settlement of some of the Securities and Exchange Commissions charges against the company. Peregrine, which develops asset and service management software, said it had signed a consent decree settling an SEC suit that alleged “massive financial fraud” by former officers of the […]

When an industry figure like Michael Dell states, as he did recently, that the economy is stabilizing and improving moderately, many people react like Columbus sailors hearing the first shouts of “Land!” from the mainmast. But just as Columbus set out with one destination in mind, only to arrive at another, so the industrys next […]

After years of listening to large developers hype storage virtualization, users are increasingly turning to smaller companies for tangible results. Companies, such as DataCore Software Corp. and FalconStor Software Inc., are moving ahead with products that are hardware-agnostic and scalable—attributes larger developers such as IBM, EMC Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. have balked at for […]

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Computer Associates Boosts Wireless LANs Computer Associates International last week announced four new and enhanced Unicenter network management products, including one for wireless LAN management. The new wireless management product, Unicenter NSM Wireless Network Management Option 3.0, can help network managers identify rogue WLAN access points, then isolate them and cut them off, said Joe […]

Enterprise Storage Will IBM Shift Its NAS Line to Linux? IBM Corp. may be planning to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) units in order to focus on higher-end products, including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, according to sources quoted in a Computerworld report. The story said IBM this month […]

Gartner Projects More Than 71,000 Public Wireless Hot Spots in 2003 The number of public WLAN hot spots will to grow to 71,000 in 2003 from about 1,200 in 2001, according to a Gartner report released this week. Retail outlets including coffee shops, gas stations and restaurants made up the majority of hot-spot locations in […]

Enterprise Storage Startup Candera Reveals SAN Appliance Candera this week plans to go public with a storage virtualization device after several years of development. The company will announce the release of its SCE 510 appliance, a combination switch and virtualization product that works on multivendor SANs. The new appliance can automatically identify devices on SANs […]

Systems management vendor BMC Software Inc. will resell EMC Corp.s storage management software, and EMC has acquired the rights to BMCs defunct Patrol Storage Manager, officials from both companies said Wednesday. The deal, long rumored, immediately gives EMC access to the approximately 50 customers who bought Patrol Storage Manager, officials said. Long-term, it gives EMC […]