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A few days before RealNetworks was to host its annual developers conference and announce the next-generation version of its flagship streaming media player, Microsoft sent out an e-mail update noting the “dramatic rise” in the adoption of its rival Windows Media Player and claiming for itself the honor of being “the fastest growing and most […]

In keeping with its name, Generic Media created a Web site as plain as those white boxes in the grocery store aisles that read “Soap” or “Dog Food.” But shouldnt a company involved in streaming media offer something a little flashier? “I think theres so much hype on some Web sites that it obscures the […]

Intel Corp. apparently is offering PC makers “deals they couldnt refuse” in hopes of recapturing lost market share and reversing recent gains made by rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Spurred by fear that it was losing its grip on the PC market and hurt by sagging demand for its products, Intel went on […]

E-brokerages function normally Despite high trading volume, online brokerage sites functioned at or near normal levels on the Monday following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, according to Keynote Systems Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., company that tracks Web site performance. The study looked at the transaction performance—how long it takes for users to place […]

Better pre-employment screening and background checks are needed in the wake of terrorist threats inside the U.S., security and employment consultants warn. Employment experts say they are seeing a virtual epidemic in the tech industry of phony credentials and false or “inflated” résumés among the thousands of tech workers seeking new jobs. Among the challenges […]

Content management systems — once perceived as expensive, complicated pieces of heavy machinery — have reached a certain maturity, and are becoming accepted as powerful engines for Internet business. The major forces in the market — big content management system vendors such as BroadVision, Documentum, Interwoven and Vignette — believe its a golden time to […]

Sri Donthi had a big surprise waiting for him when, just over two years ago, he showed up at Motorola Inc.s Personal Communication business unit to get started on a major systems consolidation and standardization project. Namely, nobody could tell him how many storage devices the business had, how many people were assigned to keep […]

Network Appliance Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. are among a number of companies testing storage technologies that could have an impact on the general IT community. The technologies being tested, including a file-access method and intercontinental data storage using IP, could impact areas ranging from more software and operating systems to voice and networking products. […]

Exodus Files With Exodus Communications filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization last week, the dream of Web hosters as a big independent industry came to an end. Exodus secured $200 million in debtor-in-possession financing from GE Capital to fund operating expenses and obligations to suppliers and employees. Likely candidates to acquire Exodus include Sprint, Global […]

Large companies with considerable IT resources and a long history of reliance on telecom and computer networks emerged from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with their business processes mostly intact. But smaller firms — some directly affected, others merely contemplating the business ramifications of mass outages — are scrambling to develop low-budget disaster recovery plans. […]

Sun Microsystems introduced a new high-end server, claiming the Sun Fire 15K will supplant IBM mainframes in corporate data centers. The new product is a 16- to 106-processor server, whose processors can be subdivided or “partitioned” into 18 submachines. The Sun Fire comes with 576 gigabytes of memory, “unprecedented in a single system,” said Shahin […]

Vendors Stick by New York Soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani encouraged people and businesses to come back to the city. High-tech companies are doing just that. Last week, Sun went ahead with plans to unveil the Sun Fire 15K high-end server at an event in the city. President […]