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Coding Pays Off for Student Stanford University junior Dan Wright earned $100,000 just by tapping out a few lines of Java code. Wright beat more than 500 students in the Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge held at MIT early last week. The competition, which began in February and progressed through three elimination rounds, concluded […]

Mobile users Hewlett-Packard Co. is seeking to leverage its digital imaging expertise in printing and scanning into the portable digital projector market with the introduction of two lightweight products. The HP Digital Projector Xb31 and Sb21 will be the Palo Alto, Calif., companys first portable projector systems targeted at mobile users. The Xb31 offers the […]

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. offers a high-speed wireless data service called Mmode. The service is based on NTT DoCoMo Inc.s Imode service, which is popular in Japan. DoCoMo, which owns 16 percent of AT&T Wireless, was integral in designing Mmode. Mmode runs on the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network and is available in markets […]

Before visiting TowerRecords.com, the web site of the big music retail chain, music fans often go to such competitors as CDnow.com, MSN.com and Amazon.com. These visits indicate the shopping-around nature of an online music transaction. The competing sites are previously visited by almost 20 percent of the people who later visit TowerRecords, according to statistics […]

Banking online continues to grow in popularity. To help retail banks build and integrate applications to support multiple customer channels, IBM this month announced updated WebSphere software to enable integration of Internet banking, branch teller terminals and mobile devices. The WebSphere Business Components Composer Version 4.1.2 integration framework, which supports multiple customer channel integration, is […]

Weve argued before that critical web infrastructure needs to come without a patent-royalty price tag attached. That battle was fought and won in the World Wide Web Consortium last year: The latest draft of the W3C patent policy, dated Feb. 26, 2002, states that the “W3C will not approve a Recommendation if it is aware […]

Intel Corp. last week released a faster Xeon processor for one- and two-processor workstations and servers, as well as three new mobile Pentium 4 processors. The 2.4GHz Xeon processor is only the second chip released by Intel to feature its hyperthreading technology, which enables a single chip to process program instructions like a virtual dual […]

Keeping database performance tuned when workloads are relatively predictable is hard enough; pity the poor database administrator who must react to the chaos of infinitely variable queries flowing in over the Internet at unpredictable rates. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeleys Computer Science division are attacking that problem by working on a new […]

Since James Goodnight founded business intelligence software developer SAS Institute Inc. 26 years ago, the Cary, N.C., company has grown to be what it claims is the largest privately held software company in the world, with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Goodnight, who is SAS chairman, president and CEO, has seen a lot […]

Reaching out to small-to-medium-size businesses with offices around the globe, a startup networking service provider, Gemplex Inc., is launching a suite of IP VPN services this month. Going after enterprises that it considers neglected by the large incumbent carriers, Gemplex is touting virtual private network services with the performance and reliability of frame relay services […]

A startup last week launched a distributed storage product that focuses on software to place more data at the edge of the network, which would result in expedited data delivery and improved end-user productivity. Storigen Systems Inc. unveiled its Edge Storage Manager, a Linux-based turnkey offering that includes NAS (network-attached storage) components from Intel Corp. […]

Classmates.com has become a successful Web enterprise, thanks to 2 million paying subscribers. They use its database services to re-establish contact with high school or college classmates or current and former members of the military service. But many of those classmates would remain disconnected had not the sites operators discovered the link between Web site […]