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In recent years, as IBM has turned its marketing attention away from the retail PC in favor of its mainframe servers and services, the companys PC market share has dwindled. Last week, the Armonk, N.Y., company used the unveiling of several PCs and services to help restore its old luster and tout itself as the […]

Can IBM make computers smart enough take care of themselves? Big Blue this week will launch an initiative to promote “autonomic computing,” an approach to building self-managing systems that require little or no human interaction. On Monday, Oct. 15, Paul Horn, director of IBM Research, is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the Agenda […]

Like relatives trying to steer a couple away from what they fear will be a doomed marriage, investors and analysts have strongly urged Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp. to back out of their proposed merger. Yet the corporate couple remains undeterred and is now seeking the blessing from whats normally a skeptical authority but […]

Over the past year, security-savvy administrators enjoyed the largest pay raises of any specialists in the IT sector, according to an Interactive Week/Advantage Business Research study, with salaries jumping 12.6 percent over 2000 figures. But heightened awareness stemming from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 may make the increases of the past year look minuscule. […]

Microsoft is fleshing out its web-services lineup to include not only consumer offerings, but a set of developer services, code-named Iris, that will be licensed — and, in some cases, hosted — by Microsoft. The company already has announced its consumer web services — .Net My Services (formerly code-named Hailstorm). Microsoft has begun delivering to […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial has ordered a mediator to try and bring the case to an out-of-court settlement. As expected, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly named the mediator, Boston University Professor Eric Green, after neither Microsoft nor the government had reached a settlement by Oct. 12. The order was filed Friday […]

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Enrons telecom dreams may be foundering, but those of its hometown rival, Dynegy, are still alive and appear to be getting brighter. Today, Oct. 15, Dynegy announced that it lost $15 million in the third quarter on its global communications business, $5 million less than it lost during the second quarter. And the company expects […]

EMC Corp., as part of its ongoing efforts to rely less on proprietary storage hardware for corporate revenue, will announce an out-of-band virtualization appliance Oct. 29 at an event in New York City, sources told eWEEK. The new product from the Hopkinton, Mass., company is the primary component of its Automatic Information Storage (AutoIS) initiative, […]

Telecommunications carriers said theyll cooperate with police to help catch terrorists, but wont spend buckets of new money to upgrade security or revamp infrastructure until they get regulatory relief. “Until we see a lessening of the regulatory burden,” all the talk in Congress about building a stronger and more secure infrastructure rings hollow, said Arne […]