Jeff Burt

Gateway Inc., still feeling the pains of its expansion beyond its traditional PC business and into higher margin consumer electronics and enterprise systems, lost $139 million in the third quarter on revenues of $883 million. The loss was more than two times the $50 million lost during the same quarter last year, and the revenue […]

Gateway Inc. next month will start shipping new versions of its Profile all-in-one computer and its desktop-replacement notebook. The Profile 5, which will ship Nov. 3, will offer new features that business customers have been telling the Poway, Calif., company are needed in the all-in-one, said Philip Osako, vice president of alternative form factor desktops […]

Maxspeed is making the thin-client environment mobile. At Citrix Systems iForum conference this week in Orlando, Fla., Maxspeed is relaunching its MaxBook 810, a notebook-style, thin-client device that connects with back-end servers via a built-in wireless PCMCIA 802.11b or 802.11g card. The 2.9-pound MaxBook offers the same advantages—easier manageability and greater security—as desktop thin clients, […]

Opsware Inc. and electronic Data Systems Corp. are leading the charge for a new open standard thats designed to increase visibility into the data center and pave the way for true utility computing. The two companies joined more than two dozen vendors here last week to announce the launch of DCML (Data Center Markup Language), […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday will begin shipping a 64-processor system based on its Alpha chip technology and also will unveil an entry-level system as part of its AlphaServer line. Officials with the Palo Alto, Calif., company said the new systems not only illustrate HPs commitment to the AlphaServer family—which it inherited when it bought Compaq […]

NEC Solutions America Inc. announced on Thursday that it plans to buy systems integrator Exinom Technologies Inc. and merge it with Niteo Partners Inc., a technology consulting firm that is a subsidiary of NEC. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The sale is expected to be completed within a few weeks. Exinom, of […]

An uptick in worldwide PC sales in the second quarter of this year continued into the third quarter, with vendors selling more than 42.5 million units, according to preliminary numbers released this week by Gartner Inc. The Stamford, Conn., analyst firm said the number represented a 14.1 percent bump over the same quarter last year, […]

IBM Corp. is bringing greater speed and disaster-recovery capabilities to its line of eServer pSeries systems. The Armonk, N.Y., company also is upgrading the I/O and RAID capabilities of the servers in a series of moves announced Thursday designed to meet the key demands of customers, according to Jim McGaughan, director of eServer strategy at […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., at a time when competitors are beginning to see their financial situation stabilize, lost $286 million in its first quarter of fiscal year 2004 and saw revenues drop 8 percent over the same period last year. The loss during the three months ended Sept. 28 was almost three times that of the […]

Noting that the economic downturn that has plagued the industry appears to be slowing, IBM officials on Wednesday reported a 9 percent jump in third-quarter revenues and said they expect customers to increase their IT spending next year. The Armonk, N.Y.-based companys $21.5 billion in revenue was an increase over the $19.8 billion it generated […]

Unisys Corp., buoyed by an 11 percent jump in its services business and growth in server sales, on Wednesday reported that revenues increased 9 percent in the third quarter. However, income dipped slightly, to $56.2 million, over the same period last year, when it came in at $59 million. Revenue for the three weeks ended […]

Users of servers powered by IBMs upcoming Power5 processors will be able to perform routine maintenance without having to shut down the systems and will see performance improvements without having a bump in switching power. Those will be among the new features discussed Tuesday when IBM officials take the stage at the Microprocessor Forum in […]