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Privacy The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced its appointment of former DoubleClick executive Nuala OConner Kelly as its new Privacy Officer, in charge of making sure that the technologies used by the department do not erode citizens privacy. OConner Kelly previously held the post of privacy officer at the U.S. Department of […]

Don King would promote it as “The Hunger for the Number,” a devious donnybrook for the digits of those who wish to change carriers but keep their phone numbers. In this corner, the FCC claims that phone-number portability is necessary to ensure competition. In the other corner, big carriers are mounting a last-ditch effort to […]

Enterprise Storage Intel, Emulex Team Up on New Xscale Storage Processors Intel and Emulex this week announced an agreement to co-develop a family of integrated storage processors for Fibre Channel, serial ATA and serial-attached SCSI interconnects. The products, coming in 2004, will be based on Intels XScale cores and be made in its 90nm process […]

Apple Airport Wireless Will Take Off Apple Computer on Tuesday said that it sold 150,000 AirPort Extreme 802.11g base stations during the first quarter. All told, the company said it sold around 300,0000 wireless networking base stations during the first quarter, with the remaining number being standard 802.11b AirPort devices. The AirPort sales figures are […]

3Com Corp., like many of its networking industry competitors, has been fighting to regain profitability and stability in a market that has been suffering from slow customer demand. 3Com lost $79 million in the most recent quarter. Deciding to focus on the enterprise networking market, the company sold the assets of its CommWorks telecom equipment […]

Quantum Corp. and Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek), each focusing on disk and tape storage, engaged each other in patent infringement lawsuits this week, officials of both companies said. Both companies suits seek monetary damages and sales injunctions. Officials on both sides noted that settlements are common in such instances. Quantum filed its suit first, Tuesday […]

EMC Corp. announced a profit of $35 million on $1.38 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2003 Wednesday, and continues to expect profits for the rest of the year, officials said. That compares to a loss of $64 million and revenue of $1.49 billion last quarter, and a loss of $77 million on […]

D&M Holdings, owners of the Denon and Marantz brand names, have purchased the ReplayTV and Rio brands in a bankruptcy auction for Sonicblue Corp. D&M had previously bid for both of the Sonicblue brands, but a deal fell through. Wednesday, the Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer snapped up the two brands for about $36.2 million; for […]

Enterprise Storage SNIA Makes Storage Management Spec Public The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week introduced the first complete version of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S Version 1.0). SMI-S backers hope to use the open standard API to eventually integrate large, diverse multi-vendor storage networks. The specification was called Bluefin for more than […]

Since Harriet Pearson was appointed IBMs first chief privacy officer two years ago, she has dedicated herself to creating privacy policies and initiatives that strengthen Big Blues efforts to protect personal data for its employees and customers. She has also focused on developing products that pay attention to privacy–in particular, from IBMs Tivoli group. IBMs […]

Fonixs VoiceCentral for Pocket PC ($30 street) lets you use a few simple voice commands to open and close applications and hear the contents of your contact list, calendar, task list, and inbox. Its a convenient alternative for PDA navigation and doesnt require voice training. When first installed, the software detects your Pocket PC model, […]

PHOENIX—Computer Associates International Inc. will unveil storage management technologies later this year based on the analogies of administering ordinary networks, chief technology officer Yogesh Gupta will announce Tuesday. Although many companies have talked of similar visions, “the realization of that vision has some hurdles to overcome,” he said in an interview. These include creating uniform […]