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Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday introduced a 16-way Unix server that brings some of the features found in its high-end Superdome system into the “meat and potatoes” segment of its product line. The new rp8400, priced at $124,000 for a base configuration, becomes the most powerful product in HPs midrange Unix product line, which accounts for more […]

The Day the World Changed in a Flash Most people learned of the World Trade Center attacks from television reports or from news Web sites. I found out without any help from technology: I looked out the window of my subway car. At 9:07 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11 — less than one minute after […]

While the slowing economy has provided an unsolicited lesson in IT leadership, theres nothing quite so powerful as operating through the near- death experience of Chapter 11 to sharpen your priorities. Just ask Cole Libby, who was vice president of network management systems at PSINet Inc. when the troubled Ashburn, Va., Internet service provider filed […]

Although the final toll may not be known for many days, its clear that the interactive world lost dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people to the attack on New Yorks World Trade Center in which as many as 4,763 people were still reported missing late last week. Workers at dozens of technology companies are grieving for […]

On May 14 of this year, everything changed for Brian Bertlin and his 189-person IT staff at Washington Group International Inc. Until that day, the CIO at the 38,000-employee construction company in Boise, Idaho, had been focused on integrating the systems and processes of Morrison Knudsen Corp. and Raytheon Co.s Engineers and Constructors business unit, […]

Like much of the rest of American society, the countrys high-tech industry was not immune to by the violence of last weeks attacks. Executives and employees from numerous companies were killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and the woods of Pennsylvania. Daniel Lewin, […]

Zefer Sinks Internet consultancy Zefer appears to be signing off. The company has shut down its headquarters and has reportedly laid off about 300 remaining employees. Zefer officials would not return calls, but the Boston Globe reported that NEC has offered jobs to about 180 employees and was looking to assume Zefers client list. NEC […]

Co-workers are getting laid off. More work is being done by fewer IT staffers. Stress is mounting. Its one hell of a time to have a baby. But thats exactly what happened when Kim Pendergrass gave birth to her son, Jaden, in June, four years after joining DPR Construction Inc., a commercial contractor based in […]

More CIOs to Seek IT Help in Q4 The glory days may be over, but IT hiring is beginning to show some signs of a recovery. RHI Consulting, a division of Robert Half International Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif., found that the CIOs it surveyed are expecting a 15 percent net increase in IT hiring […]

With a spate of recent acquisitions, auction giants eBay and DoveBid have consolidated the domestic market. Now, the two are beginning what could be an international shopping spree. Over the past two years, the two companies have snapped up dozens of smaller rivals. The latest acquisitions came last month, when eBay bought HomesDirect.com, a leader […]