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A Head Full of Win Server Last week, I attended a technical workshop on Windows Server 2008 at Microsofts Redmond campus. There, I and a gaggle of tech journalists from all over the world spent three days having our heads stuffed with details about Microsofts forthcoming server revision and the tools that complement it. Microsoft […]

Upfront A Case of Amnesia A man walks into a casino in Las Vegas and sits down at a blackjack table. He shares a look with the dealer, a silent acknowledgment of one another. The dealer starts to shuffle and then hands the cards to the player to cut the deck. Inconspicuously, the player gives […]

The IEEE, the worlds largest professional association for the advancement of technology, named Mason L. Williams on Dec. 27 as the recipient of its 2007 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award. The international award recognizes Williams contributions to the modeling and design of high-density magnetic recording technology in areas such as disk properties, […]

Researchers Investigate Rising Costs of Data Center Operations Carnegie Mellon University researchers on May 24 announced the creation in Pittsburgh of the Data Center Observatory, a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency. The DCO is a large-scale collaborative effort […]

The unthinkable has happened: Microsoft has delayed Windows Vista yet again. Office 2007s release date also slipped, from 2006 to 2007. Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsofts Platforms & Services Division, announced March 21 that Microsoft will roll out Vista in two stages. The business, volume-licensed version of Vista will now ship in November, as many […]

Wireless LAN hardware startup Xirrus on Jan. 30 will announce a manufacturing agreement with telecom infrastructure company ADC, according to company officials. Under the terms of the agreement, ADC will rebrand and sell Xirrus wireless LAN array to its enterprise customers. The array combines a WLAN switch and up to 16 integrated access points into […]

Venture-backed identity management startup GeoTrust has snapped up the assets of TrustCenter, a German smart-card maker. The deal gives GeoTrust a major foothold in the European market, where TrustCenters smart-card products are used by 3,500 businesses, including SAP, Siemens, Airbus and Halifax Bank of Scotland. Financial terms of the transaction were not released. Hodges was […]

Hitachi Ltd. and NEC Corp. said Thursday that the two companies have established a joint venture specializing in the production of routers and switches. The joint venture, Alaxala Networks Corp., based in Kawasaki, Japan, specializes in the sale of backbone products to telecommunications carriers. Alaxalas formation follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding by […]

Intel Corp. on Tuesday launched a pair of new Itanium processors geared at reducing the total cost of ownership of Itanium-based servers. The additions flesh out Intels Itanium processor line, filling in niches in its product portfolio. Intel launched new two-way-capable Itaniums at 1.4-GHz and 1.6-GHz, each with 3MB of level-3 cache. The 1.4-GHz chip […]

When Intel Corp. rolls out its 1.1GHz Pentium M mobile processor today, Motion Computing Inc. will be among the many OEMs touting new systems built around the chip. For more on the Pentium M announcement, click here. The 3-year-old, privately held Motion will release the M1400 Tablet PC, a 3-pound tablet that offers a handful […]

By 2006, about 20 percent of the top 2,000 global organizations will use digital rights management to protect content, an analyst firm said Wednesday. About 2 percent of so-called “Global 2000” companies currently use DRM to protect their content, mainly media and music companies, the META Group Inc. said in a report issued Wednesday. DRM […]

Hartmut Sell knows that the European Unions $613 million fine for antitrust violations at Microsoft Corp. means little to a company with more than $50 billion in cash reserves. But Sell, who runs a small computer store in downtown Berlin, relished the punitive spirit of Wednesdays EU ruling against worlds largest software maker. “Its about […]