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Adobe Pushes Web Tools Adobe Systems last week introduced AlterCast, image management server software that can dynamically resize and reformat images for Web sites. AlterCast starts at $7,500. The company also announced new versions of Illustrator and InDesign; released a beta version of its Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC, a collaborative site for designers. Ad […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week took aim at rival IBM in the high-end Unix server market with the unveiling of its biggest, most powerful system to date, the 106-processor Sun Fire 15K. In a subdued event in New York, Sun executives said the server, designed to handle massive numbers of transactions or computations simultaneously, will […]

The world has changed on us. Again. Eighteen months ago we were wrestling with the problems of growth and the challenges of effectively using incredible new technologies. But before we knew it, market excesses drove collapse, as excesses inevitably do. The market dove, technology businesses spun into recession, and companies retrenched. The economy seemed to […]

As the competition over digital identities escalates, VeriSign is envisioning a future when it provides identity and electronic addressing services that span the traditional telephony and Web worlds. VeriSigns $1.2 billion acquisition last week of Illuminet, a 900-customer Signaling System 7 telephone network service provider, is a significant bet on the convergence of the Internet […]

CEO Out Charter Communications co-founder and CEO Jerry Kent has resigned and was scheduled to leave the board of directors on Sept. 28. Kent will sell his interest in Charter Investments to board Chairman Paul Allen. Charter Investments holds most of Allens and Kents interest in the St. Louis company. EarthLink Online In a big […]

WASHINGTON — The FBI and the SANS Institute unveiled their assessment of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities for 2001. Most of the hacks exploit time-honored security holes. “All are old vulnerabilities,” said SANS Director Alan Paller. “Theyre being attacked constantly.” Security experts widely agree that the holes arent being effectively patched because system administrators […]

RadioFrame Networks is stepping into a niche where others have failed before. Backed by heavy hitters including telecom tycoon Craig McCaw and venture capital firm Ignition, RadioFrame hopes to help wireless operators extend coverage inside buildings, particularly enterprise offices. Last year, operators spent $160 million trying to improve coverage indoors, said Mark Anderson, RadioFrames vice […]

IBM Monday rolled out a new version of the Informix Dynamic Server, which should help ease some of the fears of Informix Software database users that Big Blue would abandon them after buying the company for $1 billion in April. Users have been concerned that IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., would discontinue Informixs product line and […]

CHICAGO — Employee Relationship Management will be the hottest enterprise software application in the next decade, predicted Siebel Systems Chairman and CEO Tom Siebel. Siebel spent much of his nearly two-hour Siebel Worldwide User Week keynote address here extolling the virtues of ERM and showing off the companys ERM offering, which it spent two years […]

Sprints name has been floated as an unexpected suitor for Exodus Communications, a combination that makes sense in a world where service providers aim to compete with IBM in the managed services arena. In addition to its wireless and wireline telephone services divisions, Sprint manages one of the largest Internet backbones and owns its own […]

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Hewlett-Packard is offering a software development kit for its LaserJet printers based on Chai, its Java-lookalike embedded system virtual machine. The software kit is expected to give application writers a chance to generate applications for printers as if they were another node on the network. A remote printing application, for example, might give a business […]