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More CIOs to Seek IT Help in Q4 The glory days may be over, but IT hiring is beginning to show some signs of a recovery. RHI Consulting, a division of Robert Half International Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif., found that the CIOs it surveyed are expecting a 15 percent net increase in IT hiring […]

With a spate of recent acquisitions, auction giants eBay and DoveBid have consolidated the domestic market. Now, the two are beginning what could be an international shopping spree. Over the past two years, the two companies have snapped up dozens of smaller rivals. The latest acquisitions came last month, when eBay bought HomesDirect.com, a leader […]

As large server farm management and scalability poisons more I-managers sleep, one of the pioneers of large-scale, mission-critical installations has broken IT-brass ranks to launch the box of all boxes: a high-end blade server that can replace a rack housing dozens of machines. Egeneras flagship product, BladeFrame, was unveiled last week at NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta. […]

After months of packaging its top-speed Pentium microprocessors with the Rambus-based 850 chip set, Intel Corp. last week delivered a chip set that will pair its premier product with the memory technology preferred by most IT managers. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said it hopes the move to SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM) will boost sales […]

TV Calling Regional and competitive telephone company rollouts of broadcast TV and on-demand entertainment services will boost the video gateways sold to 4 million units in 2003. Cahners In-Stat Group estimates revenue from gateway sales will reach $6 billion by 2005, even though the per-unit cost is falling. Liberty Abroad Liberty Media Chairman John Malone […]

AOL Eyes AT&T Apparently emboldened by a Department of Justice thats more tolerant of dominant technology companies, AOL Time Warner is taking a serious run at AT&T Broadband, the nations largest cable operator. Industry insiders said AOL could be pursuing a merger/spin-off of its own Time Warner Entertainment cable unit and AT&T Broadband, which would […]

Healthy Prospects In this day of failing ASPs, its refreshing to hear about at least one company that is faring well. XCare.net, an Englewood, Colo., company that provides payment processing services to health care organizations and their doctors, says it is on target to turn a profit in the third quarter. Its not exactly fair […]

Microsoft will lavish $200 million on the launch of Windows XP. Intel and other partners will drop another $800 million on XP-related marketing campaigns. Why does a monopolist need to advertise its products at all? Im not being totally facetious. To some extent, it doesnt matter whether anyone wants or needs Windows XP — or […]

The Federal Government failed to use the Internet to communicate effectively with citizens about the terrorist hijackings and attacks. By Wednesday evening, more than 30 hours after the first plane struck one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the governments own self-described “only official U.S. government portal,” FirstGov (www.firstgov.gov), was still little […]

A small silicon valley company hopes to take on thin-client computing stalwart Citrix Systems Inc. with a less expensive and more customizable offering later this month. Executives at New Moon Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., said its Canaveral iQ has an advantage over Citrixs thin client, which requires server-side software in addition to Windows […]

The Federal Aviation Administrations new restrictions on the use of electronic ticketing may appear to be a threat to online travel, industry experts said, but in the long-term, electronic ticketing may become another layer of security that federal agencies can tap during their investigations. Under the new rules put in place after last weeks terrorist […]

MS Reader Hacked Add Microsoft Reader to the list of e-book programs whose copyright protection schemes have been hacked. Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that a U.S. programmer — whom it did not name — has broken the encryption algorithms in Microsoft Reader, a program for reading digitally published books […]