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Sun Microsystems Inc. next month will offer a new device designed to help data center administrators more easily manage potentially hundreds of Sun server appliances. The Cobalt Control Station, which will list at $4,999, will offer a central management device from which system administrators can monitor multiple Sun Cobalt RaO and Qube server appliances. “What […]

The once-bright forecast for Congress to pass sweeping Internet privacy legislation is suddenly gloomy. The federal governments top privacy cop last week announced that he opposes it, and lawmakers who once championed stronger Internet privacy are poised instead to pass antiterrorism measures that would give the Department of Justice new cybersurveillance powers. Its been a […]

A handful of telecom and Internet services companies can sit back and watch prices of their shares drop to zero and not care – they are going private anyway. After the yearlong tech slump, the predicted recession is expected to devalue whats left of the publicly traded shares of many communications services companies, erasing the […]

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Palo Alto, Calif. – Call it one of lifes funny coincidences that the address of the new Apple Computer retail store on trendy University Avenue here in the heart of Silicon Valley adds up to “10.” Thats because Apples future hinges on the success of “10,” as in Mac OS X (the Roman numeral), the […]

On Thursday, Oct. 4, Microsoft announced measures its customers can take to protect their Microsoft Web servers from the damaging W32/Nimda worm. On Monday, Oct. 8, archrival Sun Microsystems will offer Microsoft customers who are nervous about security a chance to migrate their Web servers to a new platform. Its all part of a war […]

Struggling PC maker Gateway Inc. warned Thursday that its losses for the third quarter will be worse than previously projected as a result of a collapse in sales that followed terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The disclosure marks another setback for the troubled computer maker, whose founder, Ted Waitt, ousted the companys previous […]

Database technologies from the market leaders—IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp.—are known for their ability to organize vast amounts of raw but unstructured data. Now other companies are developing tools for structuring that unstructured data. Such is the specialty of askSam Systems Inc., which launched askSam 4.1 this week. The new version focuses on a […]

With its chief financial officer set to take over the helm, look for Nortel Networks to focus on cutting costs and selling its divisions, say industry analysts. “It says something about where their focus is,” Deb Mielke, principal analyst at Treillage Network Strategies, said of Nortels announcement that President and Chief Executive Officer designate Frank […]

Sun Microsystems officials projected the companys second quarterly loss in a row today. The projected loss – 5 cents to 7 cents per share – is higher than expected, and Sun said it will lay off 9 percent of its work force, or about 3,870 employees. The estimates came as Sun CEO Scott McNealy discussed […]