Jeff Burt

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Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

Softheon Upgrades Document Management Tools

Softheon Inc. this week unveiled an upgraded version of its document management suite aimed at automating existing paper and people processes online. The Hauppauge, N.Y., companys Enterprise Document Management suite Version 5.0 includes greater central control features and enables businesses to better manage content from legacy mainframe systems. The goal is to increase productivity by […]

Intels Q3 Net Income Down 77 Percent

Third-quarter revenues for Intel Corp. came in at $6.5 billion, a 25 percent drop from the third quarter in 2000 but a 3 percent jump from the second quarter this year. In earnings announced Monday, the chip maker giant said net income was $655 million, down 77 percent from the same year ago period, and […]

IBM Takes the Good with the Bad

IBMs earnings and revenues both dropped in the third quarter, but according to officials on Monday, several business units saw gains, most surprisingly, its high-end server series. The Armonk, N.Y., computer giant announced that third-quarter revenues came in at $20.4 billion, down about 6 percent in comparison with the same year ago period. Net income […]

Getting Handle on Mail Delivery

With the amount of e-mail generated each day, organizing it can be a challenge. Incline Softworks LLC, of Incline Village, N.Y., has launched eMailBoss, a management tool that allows users to organize and prioritize incoming e-mail. Its a Microsoft Corp. Outlook add-on that sorts the in-box by organizing messages into seven categories arranged in different […]

E-Mail on Palm Handhelds

Snap-on device Motient Corp. this week will unveil the MobileModem, a snap-on device that turns a Palm V handheld into a two-way e-mail pager much like the Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry, except that customers use the Graffiti handwriting language to compose messages rather than a keyboard. Always on The device has a fixed antenna […]

A Soothing Experience

Technology can be tough on the body. Now Raynet Technologies Pte Ltd. has a way to make it a little more relaxing. Raynet late last month unveiled the first body massager Springboard module for the Handspring Visor, a handheld computer that runs Palm OS. The module, which fits into a slot on the Visor and […]

Securing the Bandwidth Links

Ardent Communications Inc., a broadband access and bundled-data services provider, unveiled two VPN products, one of which uses MPLS. The Arlington, Va., company said its virtual private network solution is the first such product to use Multiprotocol Label Switching routing in corporate VPNs. By using MPLS, Ardent gives enterprises secure links between multiple locations that […]

User-Based Management

Resonate Inc.s Commander Solutions steers away from traffic management. Resonate Inc. is moving from its traffic management roots into the murky service-level management arena with Version 2.0 of its Commander Solutions performance monitoring and management software. The software, which has evolved to combine traffic monitoring, performance testing, reporting and traffic redirection, lets users isolate or […]

Despite Revenue Drop, Rational Optimistic About Future

Software developer Rational Software Corp. saw revenues and earnings dip in the second quarter, but officials said they expect the companys business will grow in the next few quarters. Executives for the Cupertino, Calif., company said Tuesday during a conference call with analysts that revenue for the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, was $163.7 million, […]

NEC Server Debuts in North America

Fault-tolerant NEC Computers Inc. is bringing its fault-tolerant Intel Corp.-based server to North America. Sold in Japan The Express5800/320La server is the first product in the Boxboro, Mass., companys Express5800/ft series that it will sell in the United States. The company has been selling the server in Japan. The series is based on Pentium III […]