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Even before announcing plans to launch its own brand of printers in a deal with Lexmark International Inc., Dell Computer Corp. resold about 2 million printers a year made by major printer manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard Co. But Dell earned only a small percent from the sale of each HP printer and nothing on the […]

Dell Computer Corp. made its name and money by focusing on one thing: building low-cost PCs and servers using highly efficient manufacturing processes and selling the hardware directly to customers. But over the past year, the computer maker has embarked on a new strategy that is pushing it into services, printers and PDAs (personal digital […]

Storage managers watching the gaggle of start-ups finally shrink are in for a surprise next week, when several new products will be unveiled at the Storage Networking World show in Orlando, Fla. Some are from new companies, some are upgrades from existing startups and some are from older firms new to storage, but theyll all […]

Microsoft still has yet to deliver the second release candidate (RC2) of Windows .Net Server 2003, but that doesnt mean work on the version of Windows due in 2005, code-named Longhorn, has come to a standstill. Over the weekend, a couple of Windows enthusiast Web sites, led by Winbeta.org, posted a handful of screen shots […]

Veritas Software Corp. had income of $36 million on $366 million in revenue for the third quarter, a huge improvement over the $162 million loss on $340 million in revenue from the same period a year ago. The numbers also were slightly up from the prior quarters $26 million in income on $365 million in […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday trumped Intel Corp. as its upcoming 64-bit Opteron processor was chosen to power a new supercomputer Cray Inc. will build for the U.S. Department of Energys Sandia National Laboratories as part of a $90 million agreement. The deal marks the first system-design win for Opteron, which will start shipping […]

Phaos Technology Corp. on Monday released version 2.0 of its Liberty Toolkit, a Java-based SDK designed to enable developers to write applications based on the Liberty Alliance Projects 1.0 specification. The toolkit includes both XML digital signatures and XML encryption and has stronger privacy and identity protection than the previous version, thanks to better integration […]

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Start-up Trebia Networks Inc. will announce the availability of its first IP storage chips on Monday. The chips will be sold to other storage vendors for component uses; initial customers are LSI Logic Corp. and McData Corp., Trebia officials said in an interview on Friday. Three versions of the chip, called the SNP-1000, SNP-1000i and […]

EMC Corp. today announced $1.26 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2002, down 9 percent from the prior quarter but up 4 percent from the year-ago quarter, officials said. Net loss for the quarter was $51 million, which matched previous warnings from EMC officials. Joe Tucci, president and CEO of the Hopkinton, Mass., […]

Despite surprisingly poor software revenue and an overall information technology spending environment that IBM Chief Financial Officer John R. Joyce described as “one of the toughest…that we have ever seen,” Big Blue reported a small increase in revenues and essentially flat earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. IBMs $19.8 billion in revenues for […]

McData Corp. on Thursday announced third-quarter revenues of $80.9 million, earning $2.1 after a second quarter that saw a $2.6 million loss. “This is a great time for McData. We have executed well,” CEO and President John Kelley said when announcing the earnings. About 80 percent of revenue in the quarter came from 2 G-bit-per-second […]