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Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced that its peer-to-peer technology, known as Project JXTA, has experienced strong adoption since its rollout nearly two years ago. According to Sun, more than 1 million developers have downloaded Project JXTA from the Sun Web site since it was introduced in February 2001. Sun released the first full, stable version […]

Dell Computer on Wednesday announced a new wide-screen notebook using the Intel Pentium 4-M processor. Fujitsu also announced a new LifeBook using the same processor technology. For now, the mobile Pentium 4-M represents the high end of Intels mobile offerings. Later this year, Intel will introduce the mobile Pentium 4, a version of its desktop […]

Ending four years of stalled talks and an 11-month patent lawsuit, Hitachi Ltd. will make payments to EMC Corp., and the storage leaders will share programming interfaces with each other, both companies announced Tuesday. For users, the new five-year patent-licensing deal and API swap means both companies can now build software to more thoroughly manage […]

PC Group Buoys HP Earnings Hewlett-Packard posted first-quarter revenues of $17.9 billion, a 1 percent drop from the $18 billion it garnered in the fourth quarter. HP—still working to integrate Compaq into the fold—saw its PC division earn $33 million in the quarter ended Jan. 31, a strong turnaround after a fourth quarter in which […]

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The first iteration of the Smart Display panel was seen at Comdex in 2002. The Smart Display, previously called Mira, is designed to act as a remote tablet that wirelessly displays information hosted on your home PC. However, at a cost of $1,000 with some notable drawbacks, we wonder why anyone would choose a Smart […]

eWEEK Labs senior analyst Cameron Sturdevant recently discussed identity management and single sign-on, especially as the technologies pertain to the health care industry, with Nelson Ramos, an eWEEK Corporate Partner and vice president and regional CIO of Sutter Health, in Modesto, Calif. eWEEK: What were the business drivers for single sign-on at Sutter Health? Ramos: […]

Storage outsourcer scale Eight Inc. is getting ready to try its hand at NAS using skills and software developed internally over the past three years, according to officials. The San Francisco company this month will announce N2200, a modular network-attached storage device that uses commodity Intel Corp. hardware. The highlight of the product is the […]

As the IS manager for a 32-member IT department, Scott Taylor is responsible for data spread throughout the IT infrastructure at furniture manufacturer Smed International Inc. There is one place Taylor doesnt want data stored—on floppy-disk drives in the Calgary, Alberta, companys 800 desktop and 400 laptop PCs. “I would prefer not to see them […]

Since taking on the role of executive vice president last summer, Sun Microsystems Inc.s Jonathan Schwartz has been revving up the Sun software engine, which had lost momentum in several critical areas, including development tools, application servers and dealing with Linux. eWEEK Labs Director John Taschek recently spoke with Schwartz about a range of issues […]

As SANs mature from a high-end niche into a mainstream technology, vendors are converting switches powering them into application appliances to lower management costs and improve efficiencies. Brocade Communications Systems Inc., McData Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are readying offerings that hinge on the premise that running management functions such as backup, provisioning, replication and […]

Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from Mandrake079 “One day i had just got home from work and went to use my pc. it had been running for about 2 hours and the only thing that had been done on it was e-mail checking. […]