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Macworld Expo/San Francisco Trade-show business may be slow throughout the industry, but Macworld Expo/San Francisco drew big crowds in its first days. Macworld Expo/San Francisco Bretford, an Illinois furniture maker, touted a desk that comes with a sidecar that fits the Power Mac G4. Macworld Expo/San Francisco A goldfish-hued iMac aquarium made a colorful prize […]

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Apples 30th Anniversary What did eWEEK Labs think about the current release of the Mac operating system when it first came out? In this case well let the review speak for itself: App Apples 30th Anniversary Test The rackable Xserve goes 64-bit with dual G5 processors, providing a lot of Mac computing power at a […]

Read the follow-up column—Microsoft and Verizon: Can You Fear Me Now? Many major technology product introductions incur delays, and Microsoft is as notorious for them as anyone. However, the companys attempt to bring its Smartphone design to market—its currently being sold in Europe as the Orange SPV (sound, pictures, video)—has been one of its greatest […]

Spam Antispam sentiment on Capitol Hill is growing, with a new proposal in the House of Representatives promising to slap the worst bulk e-mailers with prison terms and millions of dollars in fines. The bill, called the Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act, is sponsored by Rep. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and has the support of […]

BURLINGTON, Mass.—Storage security isnt a big problem so far, and vendors are brainstorming ways to prevent it from becoming one. There are no reports or industry statistics of customers actually suffering break-ins into Fibre Channel storage-area networks, where most of the worlds mission-critical data is stored, but its been done in laboratories, a panel of […]

In recent months, Sun Microsystems Inc. has made a big push into low-end, low-cost computing. The Santa Clara, Calif., company rolled out blade servers as part of its N1 data center virtualization strategy, as well as two low-end x86 servers, and promised to continue providing more of the same. But high-end Unix systems are still […]

NEC Desktop: Cool and Quiet NEC announced in New York last week what it calls the worlds first water-cooled PC system—which also promises to be one of the quietest. The desktop PCs water-cooling system uses liquid to cool off the CPU, enabling operating noise to be suppressed to about half that of a conventional PC […]

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Earlier this month, the California Senate passed a bill requiring internet vendors to collect customer sales taxes for purchases made on their sites. The bill greatly expands—beyond what most would consider reasonable—the description of what constitutes having a business presence in the state, to include the mere presence of service representatives. If this bill becomes […]