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Like just about every other company in IT, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is burdened with the challenges of an economic slowdown and drop in IT spending. But unlike anyone else, to turn itself around, the Sunnyvale, Calif., semiconductor manufacturer must win over end users and computer makers thoroughly aligned with chief rival Intel Corp. But […]

Aussie Named Top Programmer A man from down under came out on top in a competition to find the best programmer. Australian John Dethridge late last month was crowned the champion of the TopCoder Invitational, beating some 700 programmers from eight countries to win a $50,000 prize. Each of the four contestants in the final […]

After the conclusion of the OpenHack 4 project, eWEEK Labs West Coast Technical Director Timothy Dyck posed questions on enterprise security via e-mail to two of the people who helped harden the test applications: Oracle Corp.s John Abel, principal consultant, Oracle Technical Architecture Group, and Microsoft Corp.s Mike Kass, product manager, .Net Framework. eWEEK: What […]

A year into their OEM and manufacturing partnership, Dell Computer Corp.s service and pricing prowess has combined with EMC Corp.s reputation in storage to take both companies into new and profitable parts of the enterprise. But as the pact matures, the partners path could become more competitive, making future deals more complicated. To be sure, […]

President Bushs successful drive for a department of Homeland Security is groundbreaking on many levels, not the least of which is the scope of the undertaking. Creation of the new department has been described as the largest overhaul of the federal government in 50 years, producing a new organization with a $38 billion budget and […]

First let me introduce myself, I am Clement Dupuis, the maintainer of the CISSP & SSCP Open Study Guide Web site, located at www.cccure.org. I have been involved with the CISSP certification for many years… I have been following the CISSP certification closely and I lately found out that it is changing and is no […]

When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison delivered his OracleWorld keynote this month via satellite while sailing off New Zealand, it suggested a desire on his part to be the center of customers attention without going out of his way to be in touch with them. We hope some of the other developments we noted during that […]

EMC Corp. spinoff Diligent Technologies Corp. will debut this week, rolling out storage products aimed at mainframe storage, backup and recovery, according to officials of both companies. The new company, a quarter of which is owned by EMC, will start with three product categories. One takes over EMCs CopyCross technology, which makes disk storage act […]

J.D. Edwards Trims Roster ERP software developer J.D. Edwards earlier this month announced plans to eliminate some senior management positions in what it calls a response to market conditions. Hank Bonde, J.D. Edwards chief operating officer, has been eliminated from the employee roster under a plan to more closely align the companys sales and development […]

Tim ONeal didnt expect the end of his 30-year IT career to be signaled by a glossy, full-page advertisement. But earlier this year, when ONeal saw a Sun Microsystems Inc. ad poking fun at IBM for using Sun equipment in-house, he knew it was the beginning of the end. Within weeks, he said, ONeals Unix […]

Cisco Adds Security to Routers Cisco last week bolstered its efforts to integrate security functions across its product line with 12 new offerings that address a range of customers. Among the new products are a pair of low-end routers for SOHO (small office/home office) installations that include embedded VPN acceleration. The sub-$350 routers are part […]