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IBM is pledging to spend billions of dollars over the next few years to develop self-managing servers that it said will help IT staffs oversee ever-expanding data centers. But the aims of IBMs Project eLiza, announced two weeks ago, arent entirely new, and at least some system managers are wary of the so-called self-healing hardware. […]

Unlike many internet consulting shops, Proxicom will live to fight another day—though not as an independent company. Indeed, Proxicom has chosen to weather this current economic storm under someone elses umbrella. Late last month, the company sold out to Compaq Computer. CEO Raul Fernandez says the $266 million deal gives Proxicom the ability to provide […]

You are sitting on a cold chair in a bright room, hands cradling your forehead, trying to concentrate on the difference between the present indicative active and future indicative active tenses of the third conjugation for Latin verbs. But your mind keeps drifting, fixing on a knot of yammering librarians. Youve had enough. “Shhhh!” you […]

Already dealing with an inability to meet demand for its 1GHz mobile Pentium III chips, Intel Corp. is now facing a manufacturing problem that could delay the chips even-faster successors. A delay in the delivery of a key chip-making machine to the Santa Clara, Calif., semiconductor company could disrupt its plans to ship later this […]

New servers announced recently by Unisys Corp. and IBM highlight two strategies the computer makers are pursuing to attract customers. Unisys promoted the integration of Microsoft Corp. applications into high-end mainframe computing, and IBM, once again, took aim at Sun Microsystems Inc. Unisys two ClearPath servers feature the Blue Bell, Pa., companys Cellular Multi-Processing technology, […]

The “hacker war” between the U.S. and China may be nothing more than a label slapped on ongoing behavior, security experts say. In fact, many experts claim, the current rivalry seems little more than a creation of the press, aggressive security vendors and the FBIs eagerness to highlight its role in the governments antihacker campaign. […]

Freeh, who served for eight years, was popular with law enforcement officials, but reviled by civil liberties and privacy advocates for his no-holds-barred approach to electronic surveillance — basically, the more the merrier. He also was no friend to those in industry who spent years trying to pry open the FBIs tight lid on the […]

Renew your drivers license early if you live in California; you may need the unexpired one for a trip to the nearest Social Security office. The California DMV linked up with the SSA databases earlier this year and now rejects any application if the name given does not exactly match the name in the SSA […]

Its true that a market downturn can have positive effects, weeding out the weak companies or those with bogus business plans. But its a shame when it pulls down solid start-ups that havent come far enough along to weather the storm. The fixed broadband wireless market is a good example. Winstar Communications and Advanced Radio […]

The carnage of dot-coms across the Internet landscape, combined with the gloomy economic forecast, has many corporate executives scrambling to quantify what the true payoff is for e-commerce initiatives. Its a fair question thats long overdue. But finding the e-payoff only in the sound of a cash register may have been the most misleading expectation […]

When PKI vendor Entrust Technologies Inc. went looking for a new CEO this spring, it didnt have to look far to find F. William Conner. Conner had been on Entrusts board since 1997 and was a key marketing and e-business executive at Nortel Networks Inc., which owns 25 percent of Entrust. He has his work […]

People Using PeopleSoft The PeopleSoft 8 application package is an ASP winner, AMR Research says, and the software vendor is managing its ASP partners well. “PeopleSoft understands the benefits of effective channel management to limit channel conflict, the importance of developing industry-specific products and the integration of the ASP delivery model as an up-front option […]