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Computer Associates made Concord Communications an offer it couldn't refuse, announcing it would pay US$17 per share -- a 71 percent premium -- for the performance management software company. CA will lay out $330 million in cash and assume $20 million of Concord's debt Concord has been struggling of late, George Hamilton, senior analyst, Yankee Gr...
Velocity Micro is set to become the first PC manufacturer to release a machine built around Intel's dual-core Pentium processor. The DCX line, announced yesterday, will use the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840, which runs at speeds of up to 4 Ghz, and will be available by the end of June The DCX will also feature Intel's hyperthreading, which al...
Fujitsu showcased its additions to the high-end server world today, the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, built on Itanium 2 chips. The servers will be released in June with Red Hat Linux, but Fujitsu said it will offer a version running Novell/SuSE Linux as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter and Enterprise editions in September Whil...
The latest twist in mobile malware, Mabir.A, poses as a reply to a text message a user has already sent. The virus targets Symbian Series 60 phones just as did CommWarrior and Cabir, the two other know mobile phone viruses, but it is not expected to spread quickly, according to security experts Mabir.A has very similar code to Cabir and was probabl...
A new architecture that uses micro-threading in DRAM cores may result in four-times faster performance for gaming applications, among other uses The development, announced today by Rambus, a technology licensing company that specializes in high-speed chip interfaces, will increase memory subsystem efficiency in 3D graphics, advanced video imaging ...
Hitachi said today that it is a step closer to releasing its version of next-generation storage technology: perpendicular recording, which allows for much more densely packed hard disk drives Hitachi expects to release a 1-terabyte drive by the end of the year and said that a group of its employees are in the midst of testing the technology. Perpen...
Symantec today made public security vulnerabilities in the 2004 and 2005 versions of its Symantec Norton AntiVirus suite of products. The company said patches have already been released Both vulnerabilities allowed denial of service (DoS) attacks through the SmartScan feature in which a real-time scan of a specific file type could result in "the bl...
Intel's newest platform offering, code-named "Truland," is an evolutionary step in the established path toward dual-core processors and 64-bit architecture Truland, which comprises five different 64-bit Intel Xeon processors MP (multiprocessor) and the Intel E8500 chipset -- codenamed Twin Castle -- is faster than predecessors and offers some techn...
A new lithium-ion battery from Toshiba may hold promise for the future of electric vehicles. The electronics giant yesterday unveiled a battery that takes only a minute to recharge to 80 percent of its full strength, making it by far the fastest recharging lithium-ion battery available The battery fully charges in less than 10 minutes. The prototyp...
Even before the news was officially announced by Hewlett-Packard yesterday, the speculation had begun on the wisdom of the company's choice of NCR's Mark Hurd as its new CEO Hurd, 48, who resigned his position has president and CEO after a 25-year career at NCR, will take over the spot Carly Fiorina was asked to leave in February....
The latest mass-mail worm to attack unprotected computers is Mytob, which first appeared at the beginning of the month, but last week, threatened with eight new variants, two of which were reported by security firm Symantec yesterday As with other mass-mail worms, Mytob uses its own SMTP engine to send e-mail to addresses that it finds on computers...
Oracle has made its third purchase in less than a year, announcing today that it has acquired Oblix, a small identity management software company. Terms of the sale were not announced Oblix's security software allows for Web access control of single sign-on, identity administration and user provisioning. Analysts said the move gives Oracle a broade...
Fans of "Halo 2" -- and there are many -- will soon have the chance to wander new realms. Bungie.Net, the Internet home for Bungie Studios, which developed Halo, announced it will release nine new multiplayer map packs for the game Bungie will release four of the maps at the end of April for online gamers. Two, named Continent and Warlock, will be ...
Just days after the hugely successful North America release of its PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony was dealt a blow by a U.S. federal court, which ordered the company to stop selling PlayStations and to pay US$90.7 million to Immersion Corp. in a patent infringement suit Immersion filed suit in 2002 claiming that the technology Sony Computer Enter...
The IBM supercomputer BlueGene/L has done it again, almost doubling its already world record-breaking speed to 183.5 teraflops -- or 183.5 trillion floating point calculations -- per second The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is building the computer to help simulate the condition of the nation's nuclear stockpile. The project is ha...
Sony, which has spent the past year touting the Blu-ray high-definitionvideo storage format and rallying other companies to its cause, hinted thatit may be amenable to working with its rival format, HD DVD, in some fashion At a news conference today, Ryoji Chubachi, head of Sony's electronic components and manufacturingbusinesses, had this to say: ...
A lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general against Vonage -- which claims the company misled VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) customers about 911 emergency service -- brings up one of the problems with emergingtelecommunications technology Customers must register for 911 service as a separate step during their registration process. According ...
IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reachthe marketplace Big Blue released the product under its AlphaWorks program in which technology innovations are distributed to develop...
Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, have won the battle to acquire retail software maker Retek, signing a definitive merger agreement announced today. SAP, Oracle's rival in the quest to buy Retek, bowed out of the bidding The database giant will buy Retek's outstanding stock for US$11.25 a share, or about $650 million total. Oracle made the offer T...
While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is outon the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumorsof such a deal have been circulating for weeks Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags tophotos, making them easy to search. Not only can the person who posted theph...
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