Topic: General

Posted by : bpburnwal on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 01:55 AM

Integrated circuit manufacturer AMD has announced that its AMD Opteron processors have been chosen to power the Sun Fire V20z server from Sun Microsystems Inc, a hardware, software and services supplier.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 01:50 PM

For the past several years, Microsoft has been watching, and reacting, as open-source advocates around the world have encouraged the adoption of the Linux operating system.Now the uprising has officially reached the company's back yard.Not one but two new Linux user groups have sprung up on the Eastside, not far from Microsoft's Redmond campus, scheduling regular meetings to learn and talk about the software that the company has identified as a serious threat to its Windows operating system.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:53 PM

On Jan. 16 some of the e-mail business' biggest brains will gather on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus at Spam Conference 2004. The one-day powwow will mark the event's second year and will feature 18 presentations from a wide variety of spam fighters.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:23 PM

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A judge has nixed a Web-based program that aimed to help California consumers file electronically for a piece of a $1.1 billion class-action settlement against Microsoft Corp., saying anyone who wants to make a claim must fill out paperwork.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:13 PM

NEW YORK (AP) - The company that manages the Internet's core directory - and has been criticized for trying to take undue advantage of its position - has been hired to perform a similar role in the developing system for radio-frequency identification tags on consumer products.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 11:39 AM

Concerned about the growing economic threat from India and China, a coalition of America's top high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Intel, plans to press U.S. officials to commit to a multibillion-dollar strategy for keeping the nation competitive.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 11:37 AM

The challenge for chief information officers (CIOs) this year will be to drive IT innovation while maintaining cost and efficiency savings achieved in 2003.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 08:00 AM

Amazon.com's feature for searching within books, introduced in October, now has competition. Google,<b> the nation's leading search engine</b>, is testing a similar, unnamed service, introduced about two weeks ago with no publicity.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 07:34 AM

Communications and information services company Level 3 Communications Inc has announced that it has expanded its network reach to now cover the city of Vienna in Austria.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 07:32 AM

In chatting with customers, Jeff Rodek, chief executive of software publisher Hyperion (HYSL), is noticing signs that the information-technology spending freeze of the past three years is starting to thaw. But until he sees revenues pick up at his business, which produces software for tracking management performance, Rodek won't go out on a limb and say 2004 will be the year U.S. companies finally start to increase their spending on technology.