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IBM on Wednesday announced two new features for its high-end DB2 7.2 database, one for data mining and the other for server and application connectivity. The first addition, called Opportunity Discovery, is a free and downloadable plug-in to DB2s online analytical processing functionality, said Paul Rivot, director of database servers and business intelligence for the […]

IBM Corp. said on Wednesday that it will eliminate about 1,000 jobs at several of its U.S. chip manufacturing, storage and development plants. Sluggish sales and falling revenue tied to an industry-wide slowdown spurred the cuts, an IBM spokesman said. Last month, company executives reported that microelectronics sales had declined 30 percent from a year […]

IBM has joined forces with U.S. researchers to design a new computer network that may one day help improve breast cancer diagnosis and detection. Working in conjunction with University of Pennsylvania, IBM is overseeing the creation of a complex computing grid linking together several hospitals. Computing grids enable geographically distributed hardware systems to share applications, […]

Top-name storage, server and hard drive vendors, including Compaq Computer Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., on Monday announced a working group to draft a serial-attached SCSI interface, which could be productized by 2003 or 2004. The new interface will enable users to attach the serial connections currently found in low-end computers into high-end SCSI systems. In […]

The drive to build faster processors may be stymied by two looming hurdles—high energy consumption and heat. Next week, Intel Corp. will tout a new technology it has developed to overcome those hurdles. Intel researchers have come up with a new design for the transistor, the key component at the heart of all integrated circuits. […]

A federal judge has barred Rambus Inc. from staking claim to two types of popular PC memory technologies, handing the company another setback in its efforts to collect potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from chipmakers worldwide. Judge Robert Payne issued the ruling late Monday in the patent-infringement case Rambus initiated against German […]

ASP pioneer USinternetworking Inc. is in a state of transition, teetering between its bankrupt mentors and the protégés whove stolen its momentum in the hosting space. Symptoms of trouble are numerous at the Annapolis, Md., company, which hosts and manages software and Web sites for its clients. Most of USis sales and marketing staff have […]

Verio Inc. is looking to move up the ladder in the Web hosting world, relying on a branding campaign, its telecom parent, cost-saving plans and managed services. Over the next two years, the Englewood, Colo., company, which recently reorganized its corporate structure and appointed a senior vice president of operational excellence, said it wants to […]

Since opening its virtual doors in 1995, eBay Inc. has become one of the success stories in e-commerce. The San Jose, Calif., company has more than 37 million registered users and said it expects to generate more than $9 billion in gross merchandise sales this year. Where once the site was the domain of individuals […]

Despite the compactness of this years Comdex, the trade show represented an important expansion in the role of industry alliances. Perhaps for the first time, multivendor initiatives and interoperability standards had a higher profile than the latest big thing from the biggest company. Though Microsofts Bill Gates opened his keynote speech with the words “Welcome […]