Jeff Burt

Combining size, speed and sound—or lack thereof—IBM is getting ready to ship what it calls the worlds highest-capacity and quietest family of notebook drives. IBMs Travelstar family includes the Travelstar 48GH, 30GN and 15GN. All use the Armonk, N.Y., companys Drive Noise Suppression System, which allows users to more fully enjoy listening to music and […]

Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc. this week will introduce its Universal Serial Bus-based authentication token, which offers 1,024-bit encryption. Dubbed eToken Pro, the device is about the size of a house key and plugs directly into the port. The Tel Aviv, Israel, companys tokens can be used for authentication as well as digital signatures and carry […]

Seeking tighter ties between corporations and their business partners, Click Commerce Inc. is rolling out a new integration product. ClickForward enables real-time, machine-to-machine exchange of business information, as well as transactions, between an enterprises private marketplace and the back-end systems of its business partners. ClickForward is available now in Version 4.1 of the Chicago companys […]

USER INTERFACE RedSiren Technologies Inc. became the latest management services provider to recognize the importance of the user interface, adding a browser-based view to its services. RedSirens 1stView user interface allows customers to see how components of their IT infrastructures are performing and whether they are available. The tool allows users to see whats happening […]

Sitting pretty Mirapoint Inc. last week unveiled Mirapoint Message Director, an e-mail firewall that sits between a companys internal messaging system and the Internet. Enforcing the law Message Director screens incoming and outgoing mail traffic for harmful viruses and spam using Trend Micro Inc.s InterScan VirusWall and InterScan eManager products, said officials of the Sunnyvale, […]

MANAGEMENT Netiq Corp. last week continued to add breadth and depth to Windows-based application management in a major new release of its AppManager suite. Version 4.0 adds performance monitoring for six programs and provides a tool that allows operators to perform more sophisticated analysis of application performance issues. Version 4.0 can monitor and manage IBMs […]

PORTAL SERVERS Offerings on iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions Portal Server are going to be rolling out for most of the year. iPlanet, an alliance between Sun Microsystems Inc. and America Online Inc., unveiled last month the addition of Mobile Access Pack, a wireless product that enables service providers to offer portal services through any Internet-based device. […]

STORAGE As Snap Appliances Inc. officials see it, there is a battle among giants such as EMC Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. for market share in the data storage industry, and they want no part of it. Instead, theyre hoping the San Jose, Calif., company can grab a chunk of the market that the bigger […]

More than 8,000 high-tech vendors from around the globe convened here last week at the CeBIT fair to show a vast array of products ranging from storage devices to new e-business software to security wares. But for the second year in a row, the talk of the largest technology conference in the world was wireless […]

PORTALS Nontechnical people who want to create industry-specific, personalized portals are getting some help. CoVia Technologies Inc. this month announced the availability of Vortal, which the Mountain View, Calif., company said will enable businesses to set up collaborative relationships that increase partner communication, sales effectiveness and customer loyalty. Its based on the companys InfoPortal platform. […]

VOICE OVER IP HearMe, a licenser of VOIP technology in Mountain View, Calif., will release an updated voice-over-IP platform that allows carriers to extend existing services to include new functions such as instant conferencing, click-to-call, presence detection and find-me services. VoiceServer lets providers develop applications using Web-based tools, speeding the process of new-service deployment. Third-party […]

NETWORKING iVB Network Solutions last week rolled out a product line to provide personalized communications services over any device at any time. The Omvia products, so named because they are comprehensive via iVB Networks architecture, create more ways for users to access and reply to voice, fax and e-mail messages; manage payments; and procure news […]