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  • Mac owners offer mixed reviews of Opera
  • Handspring Launching New Visor?
  • Sun readies launch of midrange UltraSPARC III servers
  • Compaq introduces 64MB iPaq handheld
  • Norton AntiVirus puts a lock on email
  • Apple Announces New G4 Strategy and Pricing
  • Seeking the Big Picture With 360-Degree Web Video
  • SAP Leverages CRM for Intellectual Property Management
  • 'HailStorm' already stirring a tempest
  • Handspring Unveils Thin Visor
  • Next beta of Windows XP ready to roll
  • Microsoft touts smart phones, outlines wireless plans
  • AMD to unveil new chips, delay others
  • Bluetooth Teething Troubles
  • IBM To Offer Linux Version Of MySAP For Mainframes
  • Sun introduces new mid-range servers
  • B2B integration vendors facing shakeout
  • Nortel's Next-Generation Optical System
  • IBM launches WebSphere Portal Server
  • Will Oracle Finally Deliver With Release Of 11.5.3?
  • Eazel Releases Nautilus
  • Hewlett-Packard Launches New Handheld Devices

Mac owners offer mixed reviews of Opera
Can the Mac operating system support another Web browser, especially one that isn't free?

Handspring Launching New Visor?
Rumors abound that the handheld maker will soon deliver a slimmer Visor. Fan sites have pictures of the 'Visor Edge,' but the company only acknowledges that something is afoot.

Sun readies launch of midrange UltraSPARC III servers
Sun Microsystems Inc. this month plans to boost its midrange Unix server lineup by announcing a set of multiprocessor systems based on the company's 64-bit UltraSPARC III chip.

Compaq introduces 64MB iPaq handheld
Compaq Computer on Friday unveiled two new iPaq handhelds, including one equipped with 64MB of memory.

Norton AntiVirus puts a lock on email
Users of the Symantec Corp.'s Norton AntiVirus software may have problems getting their e-mail when the program's e-mail filter fails to run properly.

Apple Announces New G4 Strategy and Pricing
Apple is slashing the price of its 733Mz PowerMac G4 because of a greater-than-expected availability of high-speed chips from Motorola, the company announced.

Seeking the Big Picture With 360-Degree Web Video
Internet video has growing pains, seeks to move beyond the novelty of pan-and-zoom.

SAP Leverages CRM for Intellectual Property Management
In its continuing effort to gain market share in the CRM industry, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has announced the addition of enhanced functionality within its mySAP Media product...

'HailStorm' already stirring a tempest
In pledging conformance to open standards and protocols, Microsoft Corp. said all the right things with the launch here earlier of HailStorm, the software maker's building blocks initiative for Web services.

Handspring Unveils Thin Visor
It must be time for new spring fashions, and in the handheld personal digital assistant arena, Handspring Inc. is going with the thin look

Next beta of Windows XP ready to roll
Barring an unforeseen "show stopper," Microsoft expects to release beta 2 to testers. The OS is being pitched to consumers as the "next revolution."

Microsoft touts smart phones, outlines wireless plans
Microsoft's partners are expected to begin selling Stinger smart phones in the U.S. by year's end. The phones were designed, among other things, to tie into enterprise Outlook e-mail systems through a firewall.

AMD to unveil new chips, delay others
Advanced Micro Devices will unveil a pair of new desktop PC processors but the company has delayed some of its future products.

Bluetooth Teething Troubles
Sadly for 3Com's Shaun Paice, it was a fairly typical demonstration of a dazzling new technology. Paice was showing just how easy it was to link two laptops using the long-awaited miracle of wireless communication.

IBM To Offer Linux Version Of MySAP For Mainframes
IBM thinks it has an answer for big enterprises fed up with the complexity of supporting enterprise applications running across hundreds, or even thousands, of small servers--run everything off a single mainframe.

Sun introduces new mid-range servers
Sun Microsystems Inc. rolled out four new mid-range servers that incorporate high-end features typically reserved for its enterprise-class Starfire servers.

B2B integration vendors facing shakeout
The online business-to-business integration market is in the midst of consolidation as vendors offer solutions that expand traditional EDI trading through emerging XML technologies.

Nortel's Next-Generation Optical System
Nortel Networks Corp. unveiled a line of next-generation optical networking products Monday, promising to deliver "massive bandwidth" and integrated network transmission speeds of between 40 and 80 Gbps.

IBM launches WebSphere Portal Server
Like IBM Global Services' launch of its corporate portal in December and subsidiary Lotus Development Corp.'s knowledge management suite in January, IBM's Software Group is now jumping into the portal software market.

Will Oracle Finally Deliver With Release Of 11.5.3?
Larry Ellison, Oracle's president and CEO, made a familiar pitch at Oracle AppsWorld in New Orleans.

Eazel Releases Nautilus
Although it represents a small dent in the dominance of Windows, Eazel's release last week of its Nautilus 1.0 software--which provides a Linux-based graphical user interface for desktop computers--brings Linux one step closer to the desktop

Hewlett-Packard Launches New Handheld Devices
U.S. computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled a new color-screen handheld computer in a move that makes its product line more cost-competitive.

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