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As part of its “move beyond megahertz,” Intel Corp. last week unveiled a technology that could have computers seeing double. Called hyperthreading, the architectural enhancement can fool applications into treating one CPU as if it were two, Intel said at the chip makers Developer Forum here. By simply using existing multiprocessor applications, Intel said, users […]

Dertouzos Was Web Pioneer Michael Dertouzos, the MIT professor who played a key role in pushing the Internets presence beyond the academic and governmental realm and into the mainstream, died last week. He was 64. Dertouzos, who since 1974 headed MITs Laboratory for Computer Science, helped establish the World Wide Web Consortium in 1993. The […]

There has been a lot of mourning about the bursting of the New Economy bubble, but heres one big plus: Mindless hype has largely gone out of style. Perhaps public relations firms learned something during the great hyperbole tornado of the last few years — that all that glitters is not The Next Big Internet […]

Bureaucratic bungling is pandemic in Washington, D.C., but when it comes to information security enforcement, the FBI is setting new levels of razworthy incompetence. A scathing General Accounting Office report recently found that the FBIs National Infrastructure Protection Center is falling far short in its mission — its working poorly with other federal agencies and […]

Put Up Your Dukes Oracle and research firm Gartner are trading barbs across the Net after the software giant took exception to a critical report on the Oracle 11i enterprise application platform. Oracle said Gartner showed a “documented bias toward Oracle in its coverage.” Gartner stands by the report, Oracle Under Fire. Flooz Is Floored […]

Amex: Full Speed on Travel Network Corporations may be cutting back on travel budgets, but that hasnt stopped American Express Co. from investing in technology for travel customers. The No. 7 company on eWeeks 2000 FastTrack list of e-business innovators is building a high-speed proprietary data network, called TravelBahn, to give travel agents direct access […]

With a takeover bid squelched, Computer Associates International is ready to get on with plans to push into new markets and treat existing customers better. CA, which provides software that manages mainframe and networked computers, is attempting to reach out to a broad new audience. The company wants to sell small and midsize businesses pieces […]

Managed service providers with software-hungry enterprises in their sites face a tough decision: partner with the big software vendors or compete against them. Some say the future is in entering the software business and taking on the big vendors such as BMC Software, Concord Communications, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. But other MSPs are positioning themselves as […]

With the various makers of DAT technology exiting the market, users of digital audiotape drives will soon have to find storage alternatives. Two Boulder, Colo., companies late last month merged to develop just such technologies. The deal between Exabyte Corp. and Ecrix Corp., a startup in the small-to-midsize tape space, should be complete by the […]

The growing number of vendors rolling out storage products are trying to fill niches not being addressed by larger vendors such as EMC Corp. But many are still testing the waters to see what users are looking for. The result is a flood of products for IT managers to choose from. The latest offerings include […]