| - Piping
hot servers
- Gnawing through wires
- Sendmail,
IBM to offer Linux-enabled servers for Internet messaging
- Palm
digs in for wireless battle with Microsoft
- Allaire
brews more Java
- Microsoft Unveils
New B2B Initiative
- IBM, Vignette Drive
PaineWebber Personalization
- Server
management as easy as Palm
- IBM releases
Linux software suite
- Motorola, IBM
brush up on Bluetooth
- In Defense of
RBOCs
- Transmeta, Intel in a battle
for notebooks
- Akopia ships open-source
e-com package
- Creating a Digital Music
Empire
- Union of handhelds, phones
tightens at Mobile Focus
- UDDI Goes
To Beta
- Security Holes Found In Windows
Media Player
- Some Intel Pentium 4
Motherboards Had Incomplete Code
- IBM
Supercomputer Helps Search For UFOs
- Caldera
Ebuilder Wins Best E-Commerce Solution Award from Linux Journal
- XML
Security Standards In The Works
- Music
Software Company Releases Linux Product
- Netscape
6 Browsing for Users
- Saving Your SAN
Dollars
Piping
hot servers
The ever popular pizza box server is getting a boost, as several
companies have released new machines that push the envelope of thin power.
Gnawing
through wires
3Com on Monday will announce several new Bluetooth products
aimed at cutting the cord. The products, scheduled to ship early next year, follow
similar products from Motorola. Sendmail,
IBM to offer Linux-enabled servers for Internet messaging
Sendmail Inc.
and IBM Corp. said today they will offer Internet mail routing and hosting software
that runs on IBM's Linux-enabled eServer family and software products.
Palm
digs in for wireless battle with Microsoft
Microsoft is making progress
with its handheld systems -- especially in wireless communications -- putting
Palm in the hot seat. Allaire
brews more Java
The company will announce this week the acquisition of
a Java integrated development environment and a new version of Spectra.
Microsoft
Unveils New B2B Initiative
Microsoft Corp. announced the release of two
new products intended to help e-commerce suppliers participate in business-to-business
e-marketplaces... IBM,
Vignette Drive PaineWebber Personalization
Financial advisor PaineWebber,
Inc. is teaming with IBM and Vignette Corporation to deliver individualized online
services to its customers. Server
management as easy as Palm
IBM's new SWAP technology allows mobile network
managers to remotely control Web servers. IBM
releases Linux software suite
The company is offering its WebSphere application
server, its DB2 relational database system, and Lotus Development's Domino Web
groupware and e-mail as a software suite for $499. Motorola,
IBM brush up on Bluetooth
Both Motorola and IBM this week will make Bluetooth
announcements that could lead to further support for the specification and help
developers build new products with the wireless technology. In
Defense of RBOCs
Editor-in-Chief Steve Steinke shares his opinion that
RBOCs really aren't that bad. In fact, they're poised to be dominant telecom service
providers: Transmeta,
Intel in a battle for notebooks
Transmeta and Intel will slug it out next
year with a slew of low-powered chips for notebooks. Akopia
ships open-source e-com package
Interchange 4.6 runs on Linux and Unix
and includes features for content management, flexible merchandising and transaction
management. Creating
a Digital Music Empire
Creative Technology's Sound Blaster cards revolutionized
and now dominate audio on PCs. The company has a master plan to extend its Nomad
players to do the same for digital music appliances. Union
of handhelds, phones tightens at Mobile Focus
The marriage of mobile phones
and personal digital assistants will occur rapidly if manufacturers have anything
to say about it. UDDI
Goes To Beta
Ariba, IBM and Microsoft released the first public beta of
their UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) project, an XML-based
registry for businesses to list themselves on the Internet. Security
Holes Found In Windows Media Player
Microsoft issued a patch for two security
flaws in its Windows Media Player software that could allow malicious users to
run programs on other users' PCs. Some
Intel Pentium 4 Motherboards Had Incomplete Code
Intel Corp. said that
some motherboards -- the guts of a personal computer -- designed for its new Pentium
4 microprocessor had incomplete code, prompting the No. 1 chipmaker to send software
updates to PC makers. IBM
Supercomputer Helps Search For UFOs
IBM's supercomputers are usually relegated
to crunching vast strings of numbers for mundane things like financial data, but
the company announced today that one of its new supercomputers is now helping
identify UFOs. Caldera
Ebuilder Wins Best E-Commerce Solution Award from Linux Journal
Caldera
Systems, Inc., a "Linux for Business" leader, today announced its OpenLinux eBuilder
was named "Best E-Commerce Solution" in the Penguin Playoff Awards by Linux Journal
XML
Security Standards In The Works
Two separate initiatives led by Netegrity
Inc. and Securant Technologies Inc. are looking to develop an XML standard for
moving security information&emdash;including authentication, authorization and
user profiles&emdash;across disparate online trading systems Music
Software Company Releases Linux Product
MusicMatch Inc., a maker of software
for storing and playing music on personal computers, released a test version of
its "jukebox'' for the start-up Linux operating system Netscape
6 Browsing for Users
Netscape Communications actually kept its promise
to release the revamped Netscape 6 browser by year's end, releasing the final
code to a browser market that's changed dramatically since it last released a
browser in 1998. Saving
Your SAN Dollars
Vendor prices for storage-area networks vary wildly,
from a less than a hundred - thousand dollars to well into the millions. But why
buy more capability than you need? Three SAN users describe their needs and how
they decided on the right vendor.
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