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The chief of IBMs database division will announce on Tuesday new product bundles and consulting services around its Informix Dynamic Server. The announcement, which will take place at the companys Informix Users Conference in Las Vegas, will go a long way in reinforcing IBMs commitment to maintaining the Informix Server which IBM acquired with its […]

Intel Corp. is phasing out its Connected Products Division – which comprised MP3 players, digital cameras and PC-enhanced toys — due to poor earnings, the company confirmed. “It simply was not meeting expected revenue targets, so we decided to get out of that business,” said Intel spokeswoman Linda Bonniksen at the companys headquarters in Santa […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A last-minute rush to ram through legislation extending a national moratorium against cyberspace taxes failed in the Senate, opening the doors for states to impose taxes on online access. A three-year moratorium on Internet taxes, passed by Congress in 1998, expires on Sunday. The House of Representatives passed a two-year extension of […]

IBMs hardware business may be hurting, but the technology giant keeps rolling out new and improved products. Today, the company announced upgrades to its zSeries 900 mainframe computer that will increase processing speeds, provide better security and allow better use of Linux. The rollout comes just two weeks after IBM released its p690 eServer based […]

A countdown clock on the Microsoft Corp. campus has been ticking off—to the second–the amount of time remaining until Windows XP is officially released. That clock stops ticking this week, but, based on discussions with members of the eWEEK Corporate Partner advisory board, many IT organizations do not share Microsofts feelings of anticipation. eWEEKs Peter […]

On Tuesday, Oct. 23, Sun Microsystems will try to expand the appeal of its iPlanet portal software by giving it collaborative services that move beyond e-mail to instant messaging for the enterprise, with an ability to jointly work on documents. The Instant Collaboration Pack addition to the iPlanet Portal Server will allow workgroups to convene […]

Expect the FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program, says a source familiar with the plan. Stewart Baker, a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson, is a former general counsel to the National Security Agency. He says the FBI has spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture that would concentrate Internet […]

Fallout from terrorist attacks in the United States and a weakening global economy further undermined PC unit sales worldwide, resulting in about a 12 percent to 14 percent drop from a year ago, according to two new reports. Yet, despite the difficult environment, Dell Computer Corp., of Round Rock, Texas once again gained market share, […]

When a company that has been as unabashedly bullish about the PC industry as Microsoft Corp. has starts worrying over the prospects for business and consumer desktops, you know its bad. During its quarterly earnings call with press and analysts on Thursday evening, Microsoft warned that it had seen business PC shipments decline 10 percent […]

When a company that has been unabashedly bullish about the PC industry as Microsoft has been starts worrying over business desktop and consumer prospects, you know its bad. But during its Q1 fiscal 2002 earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft warned that it had seen business PC shipments decline 10 percent during the July-to-September quarter, and […]

PC maker Gateway Inc. reported a third-quarter loss of $520 million for the quarter, in line with the warning the company issued two weeks ago. Excluding one-time charges, Gateway posted a loss of $83 million, or 17 cents per share, in the quarter. Last year, the direct-order PC vendor posted a profit of $131.8 million, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., hard hit by a drop off in sales following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, posted a loss of $180 million for the quarter, as revenue plunged 43 percent from a year ago. Sun chose not to hold a customary call with market analysts following its earnings announcement today, contending it addressed the […]