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Hitachi and NEC announced Friday that they are joining forces to develop routers and switches for networks of telecommunications carriers, government and public sectors, and large enterprises. The joint venture will be formally established in October The router market is currently dominated by Cisco and Juniper Networks. In March, Cisco rolled out ...
Last summer, Microsoft began testing an inexpensive version of Windows in Thailand, and on Wednesday confirmed that its official name is now "Windows XP Starter Edition." The Starter Edition is included in a cheap Windows bundle that is partly designed to combat Linux in Thailand, say some analysts Microsoft has noted that the edition will be part ...
TransGaming Technologies on Tuesday announced the release of version 4.0 of its flagship product, WineX. The product, which allows Windows games to run under Linux, has also been renamed Cedega. Cedega 4.0 includes support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0, which significantly broadens the scope and availability of the latest titles for Linux gamers, according to TransGaming...
The latest edition of the TOP 500 Fastest List, which measures the speed and dominance of the world's supercomputers, has indicated that Linux systems are now represented on more than half of the list The list creators use the Linpack benchmark to measure performance of the world's machines, and have been compiling data for the past 12 years. The l...
As Wimbledon gets underway, those who did not get a seat for the matches will not have to miss a single swing. IBM has implemented a Linux-based system to power the Web technologies that will be accessed by tennis fans who want to follow the action online IBM installed Linux-powered Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator to handle Web site tr...
Allegedly, Nokia has given funds to the Mozilla Foundation to develop a browser that can run on small devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. The project, named Minimo, already has a workable prototype Both Mozilla and Nokia have declined to comment on the funding agreement, but Nokia has noted that it has considered a variety of options in the bro...
Munich, Germany and Norway's second largest city, Bergen, have announced that they will be switching from Microsoft in favor of Linux The Munich city council voted 50 to 29 for the change, but has not given specific details of what will be involved in the migration. However, it was noted that the Linux operating system and other open-source applica...
The first virus designed to infect mobile phones was detected Tuesday, as reported by security firm F-Secure in Helsinki, Finland. Nicknamed Cabir, the worm uses Bluetooth technology running in Symbian mobile phones that support Nokia's Series 60 smartphone platform. Several mobile phone makers use Symbian, including Nokia According to the security...
The SCO Group on Wednesday unveiled an array of new Unix products, as well as channel support and training programs. The announcement comes less than a week after the company reported disappointing financial results that included a quarterly drop from US$21.4 million to $10.1 million....
IBM announced Tuesday that its Linux Center of Competency is now officially open in Bangalore, India. Like other Linux centers that IBM has created around the world, the Bangalore facility will be geared toward helping Big Blue customers in industry, government and academia move toward open-source computing. The center also will have two branches ...
From the Sasser worms to phishing attacks, the Internet has been crawling with malware this year. Fortunately, there are people like Ken Xie who are ready to fight the good fight As founder, president and CEO of network-protection firm Fortinet, Xie has seen more than his share of the techno-enemy. In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Time...
Two orders have been issued in SCO Group's cases against IBM and Novell that could impact how the legal wrangling proceeds U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball is hearing both cases, which involve contract and copyright infringement claims and counterclaims against IBM, and slander claims against Novell....
At its customer conference this week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it will expand its partner program, as well as add new products, to spark sales of its OpenView management software OpenView is a suite of products for corporate network management, and is considered to be the core of the company's "Adaptive Enterprise" push, a strategy that HP cl...
One of the great promises of the Internet has always been that it can bring people together, no matter their location or technology. Social network sites like Friendster, Orkut and LinkedIn are making this promise into a reality every day by attracting millions of members that spend hours chatting with prospective friends and potential love interests...
In the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, the federal judge overseeing the proceedings has pushed for both sides to make more information public, and has taken an active role in questioning witnesses In the case's first week of testimony, Judge Vaughn Walker told lawyers that the amount of material being filed unde...
Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, is moving to Portland from California next week. He will oversee the Open Source Development Labs in Beaverton Portland's newspaper, the Oregonian, reported that Torvalds said he wanted to be in a location that is saner and calmer than Silicon Valley, and that he would move after his children finish...
Lindows has announced the release of a package containing the latest versions of three popular Linux operating systems. Linspire, Fedora and Mandrake are in the bundle, which has been named the Desktop Linux Comparison Kit According to Lindows, the three systems were chosen on the basis of their product completeness and commercial familiarity. Lind...
Antibiotech demonstrators faced off against police outside of the Bio 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The confrontation resulted in 150 arrests, most resulting from demonstrators refusing to disperse from a busy intersection The demonstrators crowded the streets around the Moscone Convention Center, with most from a local activism grou...
As more consumers and businesses turn to the Internet not just forinformation, but as a way to run their daily errands, the need for moresophisticated customer service grows unabated. The old one-two punch ofcall-center representatives and an online Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) page does not satisfy customers who are increasinglytech-savvy and information hungry...
Veritas announced Tuesday that it has extended support of its storage management and clustering products to the Intel Itanium 2 platform on Red Hat Linux 3.0 According to the company, Veritas is increasing its commitment to making Linux enterprise-ready with the move and is extending its Linux support to IA-32 and to Itanium architectures....
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