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Adobe Systems on Monday introduced the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 product line and said a free Acrobat 6.0 reader to view the companys PDF-encoded documents would be available for download in May. The new Acrobat 6.0 family — Acrobat 6.0 Professional, Acrobat 6.0 Standard and Acrobat Elements — offers different levels of functionality to address specific […]

Computer Networking Technology Corp. has acquired storage switch maker Inrange Technologies Corp. for $190 million in cash, officials announced Monday. CNT, a publicly owned Minneapolis company, will have lower manufacturing costs and, potentially, lower user prices by having its own switch supplier, officials said in a statement. “This is exactly what enterprise customers need as […]

Enterprise Storage Sun Makes a Fresh Attack on Low-End Server Market Sun Microsystems this week will announce two low-end Solaris servers, the Sun Fire V210 and Sun Fire V240. Suns new servers will mark a fresh assault on the low end, said Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata. The systems are based on Suns UltraSparc […]

China Faces Oversupply of CDMA Handsets An oversupply of CDMA handsets in China is likely to erupt this year as Nokia, Motorola and several South Korean handset makers scramble to ramp up production to further penetrate the worlds largest mobile phone market. It is estimated that domestic handset demand in China will reach about 65 […]

Cyberattacks A hacker broke into a congresswomans e-mail account Wednesday and used it to send a message condemning President Bush and the war in Iraq, her office said. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite drew attention last month when she proposed legislation to let families of Americans buried in France during the world wars bring home the remains […]

The latest storage startup, Intransa Inc., will launch next week with a distributed approach to merging IP networking and scalability. By separating array components across an Ethernet network, users can scale drives and controllers independently, bringing easier management and a good-enough performance class compared to traditional arrays in storage-area networks, officials of the San Jose, […]

Read the first column, “Why Bluetooth Bites” In my last column, I discussed why, despite some momentum from the handheld and PC camps, Bluetooth needs a good cleaning. Indeed, the medicine cabinets of the entire Osmond family may not hold enough Whitestrips to rid Bluetooth of its trouble spots, which include: Compatibility. While companies such […]

Hewlett-Packard announced a new line of Pavilion notebooks and desktop PCs on Thursday, using them as a showcase for the companys DVD burners. HPs ze5300 notebook series complement the new Pavilion 505n, 515n, 725n and 735n desktops, which the company is using to introduce its DVD burners into the value PC space. While the ze5300 […]

Enterprise Storage Dell to Manufacture Its Own SANs Dell this week said it will cut the price of storage by manufacturing its own storage area network (SAN) systems for small and medium-sized firms. This is the first time Dell has taken over the manufacturing process. Thomas Lahive, senior analyst at research firm, Enterprise Storage Group, […]

Gizmodohttp://www.gizmodo.com/Tech reporter Peter Rojas brings you a heaping serving of the coolest gadgets around in a neat, clean package. To go straight to the wireless section, click here. Hiptop Nationhttp://hiptop.bedope.com/A multiple contributor blog actually written and sent from the Danger Hiptop. Reiters Wireless Data Webloghttp://reiter.weblogger.comVeteran wireless analyst Alan Reiter offers news and analysis on a […]

System administrators who perform nightly backups to optical or tape libraries may soon need to check their mirrors: a newer medium, holographic storage, is closer than it appears, component vendors say. Holography stores data by using multiple light beams to create chemical reactions. The result is data thats smaller and more permanent than laser-induced ridges […]

An ongoing sluggish economy and fears over the war in Iraq restrained U.S. IT hiring in the fourth quarter of last year to levels well below those seen in the third quarter, according to a newly released survey commissioned by the Information Technology Association of America and online job board company Dice Inc. At the […]