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Intel plans a big push into the market for mobile and laptop computer chips that use less power, but supply high speeds. The power management features of the new chips will be “second to none,” said Intel executive Don MacDonald at the annual developers forum last week. Currently, Intel is second to Transmeta, which has […]

Its not uncommon to find IT issues in the courts. Napsters tangle with intellectual property rights and Microsofts tango with the DOJ regarding anti-trust issues are todays best-known examples. As an IT manager, youre doubly exposed to these issues—through the mainstream media and through coverage in trade journals like eWeek. This week, in Ethics in […]

Cisco Systems plans to put its muscle behind the latest tool for thwarting worms and other scary creatures attempting to penetrate e-business infrastructures. The networking giant is expected to unveil its CiscoWorks IDS Host Sensor, which uses intrusion detection and prevention technology from Entercept Security Technologies, according to Entercept officials. Entercepts technology is a step […]

PC Power United Devices, a distributed computing startup, hauled in $18.2 million in second-round funding last week. Lead investors were Constellation Ventures and GE Capital; others included AOL Time Warner, Intel Capital and Sonys 550 Digital Media Ventures. The Austin, Texas, company, whose technology harnesses idle PC resources across networks, will ramp up sales and […]

The antennas have turned in the fixed wireless world. Experts are now giving Teligent — earlier pegged as the least likely of the bankrupt broadband fixed wireless players to succeed — the best chance of returning to the market. Winstar Communications, once considered the golden child of broadband wireless, is now given slim odds of […]

The battle over Internet taxes prompted the creation of a high-profile commission, numerous studies, scores of congressional debates, tough behind-the-scenes Capitol Hill politicking and the most serious attempt ever by states to simplify their sales tax structures. But it appears likely the various partisans engaged in the more than 2-year-old war surrounding online sales taxes […]

Even a moron knows that when you are buying large quantities of a commodity over a long period of time, you hedge your bets with long-term contracts. Unfortunately for the citizens of California, their legislators didnt ascend to that level when they attempted to deregulate the Golden States electricity market. The legislators decided that the […]

What if everyone who already owned a car suddenly stopped buying new ones? Thats almost the situation facing the PC industry, which has been belching such a miasma of bad news that even Microsofts launch of Windows XP next month is not expected to help clear the air. “Windows XP is going to be a […]

Being a federal judge can be so depressing. Dressed in black, assaulted by endless hours of arcane testimony, watching overpaid attorneys strut and spit all day long in your courtroom. The beleaguered jurist could use someone to talk to. Why not author Ken Auletta or a reporter or two from The New York Times? Unwind […]

Look which company is back on top in optical transport sales: the much-maligned, nearly written-off Lucent Technologies. Lucent began gobbling market share in the second quarter, DellOro Group says, moving into first place in optical transport gear sales and doubling its share of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) gear. Credit a slimmed-down customer list and […]

Billy Tauzin, R-LA., was pleased as punch to finally win the Chairmanship of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce earlier this year. While the world lay at his feet, with both houses of Congress firmly in Republican control, it was time to return some big favors to the powerful corporate interests that helped get […]

Choosing a poster boy for web excess is tough, given the stiff competition, but George Shaheen brings outsize credentials to the contest. He left a big job as president of the company formerly known as Andersen Consulting to run one of the richest and most arrogant Internet startups: Webvan Group. The magnitude of the task […]