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IPO Discontent It may be spring, but the cold, hard winter of IPO discontent continues unabated. Last week, Lucent Technologies optical components spin-off Agere Systems delayed its IPO and slashed its price range. Seven smaller deals, worth about $860 million, were also withdrawn. So far this year, 64 offerings, worth an estimated $7 billion, have […]

New Leader Betsy J. Bernard has been named president and CEO of AT&Ts consumer services unit. Bernard will take over the telecom giants huge — though shrinking — consumer long-distance operation as AT&T prepares to divide into three separate companies. She previously led Qwest Communications Internationals consumer and small-business unit. Who Will Be First? Verizon […]

Every day, the news gets gloomier. It started last year with the carriers. Then came layoffs from the telecom equipment manufacturers like Lucent Technologies Inc., which had to secure an onerous $6.5 billion loan to help it restructure. Now its the suppliers to the suppliers that are suffering, like Vitesse Semiconductor and LSI Logic, which […]

Changes at the Federal Communications Commission may be a harbinger of other Bush administration policies, with looser regulatory reins that may mean fewer telecom choices for many customers. Already, two huge regional Bells are backing away from service expansion pledges they made as a condition of mergers approved by the FCC during the Clinton administration. […]

IT managers awaiting the release of eServer clusters for Unix and Linux said IBM has given them two good reasons to try the offerings: time and money. Due within the next two months and code-named Blue Hammer, the clusters will allow customers to save both by managing up to 32 eServer rack systems from a […]

SuSE Linux 7.1 professional, the first product eWeek Labs has seen thats built around the new Linux 2.4 kernel, is easy to install and well-documented—but its aimed at the wrong market. SuSE 7.1, released last month, supports 64GB of RAM, SMP and unlimited running processes. These attributes, improved in the 2.4 kernel, will give Linux […]

Sony Corp. of America is stumbling over its own big feet. The media behemoth is the umbrella for both Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Electronics — and their increasingly conflicted copyright policies. Copyright has always been a point of friction between content and consumer electronics companies. Entertainment companies want to hold anyone and everyone liable […]

Hardly a bastion of new Economy excitement and dot-com exuberance, the stoically titled Association For Computer Operations Management is making overtures to the e-business generation with decidedly unsexy terms such as mainframe computing and batch processing. The 3,000-member group, which predates the PC revolution, the last recession and the Internet, is counting on its trade […]

MOBILE COMPUTING Fiorina on Our Mobile Culture The worlds apparently insatiable appetite for mobile connectivity is posing challenges to businesses and society that can no longer be ignored, warns Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Ironically, Fiorina delivered the message last week at the CeBIT trade show in Germany, where thousands of companies touted their wireless wares, […]

The human genome, contained in a set of 23 chromosomes, is estimated to contain some 3.16 billion nucleotides. The scientists who dig through that mountain of data to discern the mysteries of life demand an equally massive amount of raw, number-crunching power. Luckily for Rainer Fuchs, the commoditization of PCs and the ubiquity of TCP/IP […]

Informatica is one of those software houses that has quietly built its reputation by extracting data from other systems, transforming it into some scrubbed and predefined form, and then analyzing it in an application built on top of an analysis engine. But in the Internet era, the company is moving closer to the pace of […]

If complex quantitative data is made graphic, we can absorb it effortlessly, and Corda Technologys PopChart 3.8 suite of development and hosting tools helps that process along. PopChart 3.8 brings interactive charts and graphs to the Web, replete with pop-up legends and layers of drill-down data that help users rapidly absorb complex, changing data images. […]