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A federal judge has barred Rambus Inc. from staking claim to two types of popular PC memory technologies, handing the company another setback in its efforts to collect potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from chipmakers worldwide. Judge Robert Payne issued the ruling late Monday in the patent-infringement case Rambus initiated against German […]

Verio Inc. is looking to move up the ladder in the Web hosting world, relying on a branding campaign, its telecom parent, cost-saving plans and managed services. Over the next two years, the Englewood, Colo., company, which recently reorganized its corporate structure and appointed a senior vice president of operational excellence, said it wants to […]

ASP pioneer USinternetworking Inc. is in a state of transition, teetering between its bankrupt mentors and the protégés whove stolen its momentum in the hosting space. Symptoms of trouble are numerous at the Annapolis, Md., company, which hosts and manages software and Web sites for its clients. Most of USis sales and marketing staff have […]

Despite the compactness of this years Comdex, the trade show represented an important expansion in the role of industry alliances. Perhaps for the first time, multivendor initiatives and interoperability standards had a higher profile than the latest big thing from the biggest company. Though Microsofts Bill Gates opened his keynote speech with the words “Welcome […]

Since opening its virtual doors in 1995, eBay Inc. has become one of the success stories in e-commerce. The San Jose, Calif., company has more than 37 million registered users and said it expects to generate more than $9 billion in gross merchandise sales this year. Where once the site was the domain of individuals […]

Video technology over ISDN, and recently IP, has slowly and quietly crept to the forefront as a killer app that saves our organization tens of thousands of dollars per day. Let me describe. Our court system spans two counties and four jail sites. Before videoconferencing, hundreds of inmates had to be transferred twice a day […]

Even though the U.S. Senate 10 days ago voted to extend the Internet tax moratorium for two years, its time will run out eventually. Shrinking state coffers—Massachusetts, my home state, is facing a $1.35 billion budget shortfall—will see to that. A headline in a Gartner online newsletter says it all: “Internet Taxes: Delayed, but Still […]

IBM is poised to release a four-processor, Intel Corp.-based server, code-named Crusade, that will feature performance-enhancing technologies drawn from the companys high-end mainframe systems. The hardware and software features integrated into the upcoming xSeries server are part of what IBM calls its Enterprise X-Architecture, previously code-named Summit. Enterprise X-Architecture not only will squeeze the most […]

MS Hearing Set for Europe Microsoft, fresh off favorable settlements with the U.S. government and private plaintiffs, now must face antitrust issues raised overseas. The European Commission will conduct a hearing Dec. 20 to 21 to discuss whether Microsoft, by embedding proprietary audio and video software into its Windows operating system, was intentionally trying to […]

The next version of Oracle Corp.s 9i Application Server will include features designed to increase performance while making it easier to manage. The application server, which will be launched at the companys OpenWorld show next week in San Francisco, will include expanded services for application development, deployment, Java, messaging and file systems, said sources close […]

Recently, IBM formed a first-of-its-kind Privacy Management Council, consisting of several large-enterprise customers and IBM executives, to examine the technologies and management practices that will be needed to protect consumer privacy in the e-business environment of today and tomorrow. Named to head the council was Harriet Pearson, IBMs chief privacy officer. eWeek Executive Managing Editor […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., feeling increasing pressure from rivals as well as from recent troubles, is already touting its 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III, which is due early next year. And while it is only 100MHz faster than Suns current top-performing chip, Sun last week said the new processor will perform up to 72 percent faster on benchmark […]