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Unswayed by the big-hype stillborns of the application service provider niche, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce a new ASP-enabling strategy at the ISPCon/ASPCon tradeshow on Tuesday in Las Vegas. The program, called Destination ASP, is a co-sales and co-marketing strategy to help independent software vendors and service providers enter the ASP business, at a point […]

Not everyone is willing to wait for someone else to cut the desktop tether. Loose coalitions of tech geeks, amateur radio hobbyists and social activists worldwide have begun to build free broadband wireless networks. Sit in a park or café near one of these networks with your laptop and modem, and you can access files […]

Network and hosting service providers venturing into the software business have found demand for all but the most obvious of these futuristic services is slim, and that competition for network services tends to creep up from the most improbable places. Just a year ago, the formula still seemed to be clicking. Businesses, tired of maintaining […]

What will the future of computing look like? Intels Pat Gelsinger is spending about $4.2 billion this year to get some answers. Gelsinger, 40, is an Intel lifer who started at the company in 1979 as a teen-ager fresh from technical school. He was recently named chief technology officer — the first CTO Intel has […]

Ruminations on the future of information technology tend to be optimistic homilies, cheerful predictions of nothing but the goodness of faster, cheaper and more useful computers. The future of Internet security, however, is a much different story. The forecast on this front isnt for blue skies — its more like a tornado warning. The number […]

Computers, you might say, are growing up to be more like us. Someday, they will be able to process information as quickly as we can, which means they will be able to understand what were saying. An intelligent electronic companion that anticipates our every informational need isnt very far away. For the next few years, […]

The software that powers future Internet computing will be built in a very different way than it is today. In place of large, monolithic applications — such as, say, a Cobol mainframe accounting system — software experts see a world in which a module of code is developed once, then used in many different applications. […]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Thats the well-worn observation by futurist and writer Arthur C. Clarke. Here we are in 2001, though, and its difficult to believe theres anything very magical about the tools we use to access or produce information. Todays computers are unreliable, primitive tools when compared to the proactive […]

Intel Corp. researchers have developed a new technology that paves the way for producing processors running at speeds of up to 20GHz in a few years. Engineers working for the giant chipmaker say they have designed a new method for “packaging” microprocessors that will enable Intel to manufacture smaller, more energy efficient and faster chips. […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. next month will offer a new device designed to help data center administrators more easily manage potentially hundreds of Sun server appliances. The Cobalt Control Station, which will list at $4,999, will offer a central management device from which system administrators can monitor multiple Sun Cobalt RaO and Qube server appliances. “What […]

The once-bright forecast for Congress to pass sweeping Internet privacy legislation is suddenly gloomy. The federal governments top privacy cop last week announced that he opposes it, and lawmakers who once championed stronger Internet privacy are poised instead to pass antiterrorism measures that would give the Department of Justice new cybersurveillance powers. Its been a […]

A handful of telecom and Internet services companies can sit back and watch prices of their shares drop to zero and not care – they are going private anyway. After the yearlong tech slump, the predicted recession is expected to devalue whats left of the publicly traded shares of many communications services companies, erasing the […]