EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from February 2000

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from February 2000

CHIP SPEED BREAKTHROUGH BY INTEL AND ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2000... Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, CA, has announced that it has designed a microprocessor that runs at the speed of 1 gigahertz (1 billion cycles a second). It is expected that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., (AMD) of Sunnyvale has made an identical...

ANTICIPATION OF SURGING INTERNET TRAFFIC DROVE ACQUISITIONS IN THE HARDWARE INDUSTRY.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 7, 2000... Anticipation of surging Internet traffic comprising data, wireline and wireless voice and video led to unprecedented demand for bandwith, powering M&A activity in 1999. This market development makes a high-performance, all-optical Internet...

FORD OFFERS PC TO EACH EMPLOYEE.(Company Operations)
February 7, 2000... Ford Motor Co., the first major company to do so, offered each of its 350,000 worldwide employees a home computer, a color printer, and unlimited access to the Internet for $5 a month. Reciting a need to allow its employees to participate in...

HP'S NEW 1200-DPI SCANNER PROVIDES EASY-TO-USE FUNCTIONALITY AND ECEPTIONAL IMAGE-QUALITY SCANNING.(HP ScanJet 5300C color scanner)(Product Announcement)
February 7, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a new color scanner for small- and home-office users. The HP ScanJet 5300C scanner represents a leap forward in scanners costing approximately $299. The new offering from HP will deliver industry-leading 1200...

MARKET RESEARCH.(Fiber Optics)(Industry Trend or Event)
February 7, 2000... Fiber Optics Spending Triples In Decade, Reaches $14.6 Billion In 1999 Spending in the fiber optics market has more than tripled from $4.1 billion in 1990 to $14.6 billion in 1999, reports the 2000 MultiMedia Telecommunications Market...

SATCON TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD FUEL CELL POWER CONVERTERS - E- COMMERCE UTILITY.(SatCon Technology)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 7, 2000... SatCon Technology Corp., a leader in power and energy management products, announced that it would build fuel cell power converters for H Power Corp. of Belleville, N.J. The SatCon power converters convert DC electrical output from H Power's...

HP Re-Enters MAC Scanner Market With Powerful 1200-DPI Scanner.(HP ScanJet 5300C scanner)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. announced that its new HP ScanJet 5300C scanner would support connectivity to Apple's popular Macintosh computers. The development of Mac-compatible HP scant scanners demonstrates Hp's continued support of the Macintosh...

NEW HP DESKJET PRINTERS OFFER LATEST HP INKJET TECHNOLOGY & ENHANCED USABILITY FEATURES AT LOWER PRICES.(DeskJet 950C/952C, 930C/932C printers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 7, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the shipping of its DeskJet 950C/952C and 930C/932C printers. The new color inkjet printers use HP's latest technology to offer results most like a photo(1), unrivaled "everyday" printing and uncompromising...

NEW HP DESKJET PRINTER PROVIDES BUILT-IN PHOTO-QUALITY PRINTING & ENHANCED FEATURES FOR CUSTOMERS.(HP DeskJet 840C/842C printer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 7, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled last week the HP DeskJet 840C/842C printer. This new color inkjet printer provides built-in photo- quality printing and the fastest print speeds offered by HP at the price of $149. The HP DeskJet 840C/842C...

IN SEPARATE DEALS, INTEL IS BUYING AMBIENT AND THINKIT.(Ambient Technologies, Thinkit Technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2000... Intel Corp. agreed to buy the closely held Ambient Technologies Inc. for about $150 million in cash to get technologies for high- speed Internet access. In addition, Intel agreed to buy the closely held Thinkit Technologies Inc., which designs...

BUILDING INTERNET TIDAL WAVE PROPELLED M&A VALUE PAST THE TRILLION DOLLAR MARK IN 1999.(News Briefs)
February 7, 2000... The total value of M&A transactions in the IT, communications and media industries worldwide leaped 154 percent to more than $1.2 trillion in 1999, with the total number of M&A transactions rising nearly 26 percent to 6,008 globally. The...

PLANNED COUNTER ATTACK AGAINST HACKERS OF TOP WEB SITES.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 14, 2000... Within a 72-hour period, the Internet portal site at Yahoo, Amazon.com, CNN.com, Buy.com and others were crippled by a flood of "denial of service" strikes (involving flooding computers with fake requests for data so that legitimate users are...

RECENT HACKS POSE LEGAL QUESTIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES, OTHERS, CYBERGUARD EXPERTS SAY.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... The Chief Technology Officer of Internet security firm CyberGuard Corp. raised new concerns over the potential liability of universities, libraries and other organizations whose computers were unwittingly used for the recent denial-of-service...

INCREASE IN HACKER ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR HEIGHTENED EBUSINESS SECURITY.(Product Information)
February 14, 2000... In the wake of the hacker attacks that shut down several major Web sites last week, Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) is urging eBusinesses to bolster their line of defense with security software that can help prevent such assaults....

INTEL AND IBM DESCRIBE ONE GIGAHERTZ MICROPROCESSORS.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 14, 2000... At the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Intel Corp. and IBM presented papers describing microprocessors that operate at one gigahertz speeds and announce that they will introduce chips with that capability during...

MARKET RESEARCH.
February 14, 2000... Dataquest Says Mobile Phone Sales Increased 65 Percent In 1999 Worldwide sales of mobile handsets reached 283 million units in 1999, a 65 percent increase over 1998 sales, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc. Dataquest...

MULTI-TECH SYSTEMS, INC. FILES SUIT AGAINST COMPAQ, DELL AND GATEWAY.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... Multi-Tech Systems, Inc., based in Mounds View, MN, filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court, Minneapolis, MN, against Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp. and Gateway, Inc. Presumably the basis of the suit is a claimed patent...

IBM Filed Suit Against Informix.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... IBM Corp. of Armonk, NY filed a patent lawsuit against Informix Corp. in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, alleging that the Informix software utilizes technology patented by IBM from 1981 to 1992, and dealing with such matters as the way...

TECHNOLOGYNET.COM AND ISRAEL'S KALANIT FORM INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... B2B Partnership Expands Gateway To IT Products And Services Wordwide TechnologyNet.com, a leading portal for the IT industry and recognized gateway to computer resellers worldwide, announced that it has partnered with Israel's largest...

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE.(Company Operations)
February 14, 2000... Genesis Microchip a provider of digital display and video/graphics-processing integrated circuit products announced Amnon Fisher, formerly senior vice president and general manager of NeoMagic, as president and chief operating officer. ...

XML-ENABLED B2B SOLUTION SIMPLIFIES EVOLUTION FROM ERP TO E- BUSINESS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... RSA Companies, a leading provider of business technology solutions, IT infrastructure services and management consulting, and Netfish Technologies, a leader in XML-based business-to- business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, announced a strategic...

Lynx Donates Advanced Messaging Technology To Linux Open-Source Community.(Real-Time Systems Inc)
February 14, 2000... Real-Time Systems Inc., announced the donation of Lynx Messenger for BlueCat Linux, its high-performance messaging technology, to the Linux open-source community to establish a new standard for advanced CompactPCI inter-board messaging in...

MICROSOFT BCENTRAL LAUNCHES EASY WEB SITE CREATION AND HOSTING SERVICE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... To make it easier for small businesses to establish a Web presence, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft bCentral Site Manager, an innovative service that gives small- business owners everything they need to build, host and...

PEOPLEPC TO PROVIDE FORD AND DELTA EMPLOYEE COMPUTERS.
February 14, 2000... As reported in EDP Weekly on Feb. 7, 2000, Ford Motor Co. and Delta Airlines will be providing to their combined 420,000 employees with home PCs and Internet access. The employees will be paying between $5 and $12 a month for a subsidized...

ADOBE SYSTEMS, PALM COMPUTING TO INTEGRATE ADOBE TECHNOLOGIES AND PALM OS SOFTWARE.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... Adobe Systems and Palm Computing Inc., a 3Com Co., announced an intention to integrate Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) technologies and the Palm Computing platform geared towards the growing consumer market for electronic publishing. This...

TOSHIBA'S 288Mb RDRAM FEATURES COST-EFFICIENT MULTIPLE-BANK ARCHITECTURE.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC) announced that Toshiba Corp. unveiled a new architecture for its 288Mb megabit (Mb) Rambus dynamic random access memory (RDRAM) at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. The new...

HP & Loudcloud Partner To Provide Software Services To Internet Businesses.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. and Loudcloud Inc. announced that they are working together to help high-growth Internet businesses get to market faster and scale to meet their customer needs. Loudcloud, which builds and runs smart software Cloud services...

IBM HELPS EASE WIN 2000 INTEGRATION; INDUSTRY'S LARGEST PORTFOLIO OF 2000 SOLUTIONS PLANNED.(Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system)
February 14, 2000... IBM announced initiatives to help companies integrate Windows 2000 applications into the enterprise. IBM, a leading provider of Windows 2000 solutions, will offer development software and technical support at no charge to business partners...

SONY INTEGRATES PIXELWORKS IMAGEPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE INTO HOME THEATER SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 14, 2000... Pixelworks announced that Sony Corp. selected its highly integrated ImageProcessor Architecture to deliver state-of-the- art video and computer performance in Sony's first widescreen, front-projection home theater system. The...

DEMONSTRATEDFEASIBILITY OF LOW-COST MICRO-RELAYS & WIRELESS INTEGRATED NETWORKS.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
February 14, 2000... Science Center micro-machined silicon relays and wireless networking technologies were successfully demonstrated on Feb. 8 during the space flight of the two smallest satellites ever released into orbit. The "picosatellites" weigh less than...

COMPAQ & UNISYS PARTNER TO DELIVER 32-PROCESSOR SERVER PLATFORMS FOR WINDOWS 2000 DATACENTER SERVER.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 21, 2000... Driving industry-standard architecture into the highest levels of the data center, Compaq Computer Corp. and Unisys Corp. announced the signing of a letter of intent under which Compaq will deliver Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) based...

Compaq Named Exclusive Hardware Sponsor of Microsoft 2000 Tour.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 21, 2000... Compaq Computer Corp. announced that it is the exclusive hardware sponsor of the Microsoft Complete Commerce 2000 Tour to be held in cities throughout the central US and Canada. This four-month tour will demonstrate how IT professionals can...

MICROSOFT WANTS "COMMON SENSE" SETTLEMENT.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2000... Microsoft advised the Department of Justice that any breakup of its business would be fatal, but indicated that it would accept reasonable restrictions on its conduct in order to settle the government's antitrust claims. Having previously...

WILL MICROSOFT 2000 SUCCEED? MIXED RESULTS AMONG EARLY USERS.(Product Announcement)
February 21, 2000... Microsoft's introduction of its Windows 2000 product on Feb. 17, has met with mixed results among even its staunchest supporters and users. The problem? Microsoft must switch business users, large and small, to its new, more powerful operating...

MARKET RESEARCH.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 21, 2000... Business-to-Business E-Commerce Transactions Becoming More Global Worldwide business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce was dominated by the North America region in 1999, but by 2004 the market will become a much more global marketplace,...

NCR ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 2000.(Product Information)
February 21, 2000... Windows 2000 And Teradata Bring New Capabilities To Networked Economy Underscoring its commitment to open systems, NCR Corp. announced that it will support Microsoft Windows 2000 across its entire offering of products, including its...

NETCHIP DEMONSTRATES FIRST USB 2.0 DEVICE AT THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS DURING INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM.(Product Announcement)
February 21, 2000... NetChip Technology Inc., a leader in high speed Universal Serial Bus (USB) device technology, debuted its USB 2.0 device at the Intel Developer Forum in one of the first public demonstrations of an USB 2.0 system. As part of his keynote...

ADVANCED MICRO TO RELEASE FASTER CHIP.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 21, 2000... Advanced Micro Devices announced a new version of its flagship processor, saying that it runs faster than the latest chip from the Intel Corp. Advance Micro, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is rolling out an Athlon processor that runs at 850...

UNISYS SERVER SETS PERFORMANCE RECORD IN FIRST TPC-C BENCHMARK WITH WIN 2000 DATACENTER SERVER.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 21, 2000... Unisys Corp. announced that it has set a new performance record for eight processor Intel-based servers in the first industry- standard measurements of online transaction processing (OLTP) performance using the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter...

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE.(Company Operations)
February 21, 2000... Luminate, a leading provider of application management software SAP R/3, announced that Geoff Galat has joined Luminate as Vice President, Corporate Marketing. Galat was previously with Mercury Interactive, most recently as Vice President,...

BENCHMARKS DEMONSTRATE POWER OF COMPAQ PROLIANT SERVER RUNNING WIN 2000 & SQL SERVER 2000.(Product Information)
February 21, 2000... Delivering everything customers need to build a Windows 2000 infrastructure optimized for e-business, Compaq Computer Corp. released benchmarks that show the power of Compaq Proliant servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000....

Cisco Buys Producer Of Chips For Networks.(Growth Networks Inc, Cisco Systems Inc)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 21, 2000... Cisco Systems Inc., a leading maker of Itnernet equipment said that it had agreed to buy the closely held Growth Neworks Inc. for about $355 million in stock, to add semiconductors that speed computer networks. Growth Networks, founded in 1998...

MICROSOFT UNDER PRESSURE AT TRIAL'S END -- BREAKUP ILLOGICAL?(Company Business and Marketing)
February 28, 2000... Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson provided little comfort to Microsoft during its final arguments before issuing a verdict in the antitrust case in Washington, DC last week. Judge Jackson undercut a significant legal defense proffered by Microsoft...

HARDWARE IS A COMMODITY: SERVICES WILL SEPARATE THE LEADERS FROM THE PLAYERS IN THE IT INDUSTRY.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 28, 2000... While hardware has become a commodity, what differentiates IT companies is the added value they can provide through services. This trend is not going to stop any time soon. As International Data Corp. (IDC) observes, because of the migration...

HITACHI & @ROAD PLAN WEB-ENABLED AUTO & PERSONAL LOCATOR IN JAPAN.
February 28, 2000... In a broad-based agreement announced jointly in Yokohama, Japan, and Fremont, Hitachi Software Engineering Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., and @Road Inc., disclosed plans to introduce @Road's patented Web-enabled location technology in...

PEN SCANNERS WRITE THE NEXT CHAPER IN A RAPIDLY EXPANDING MARKET.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 28, 2000... Driven by the growing popularity of the Internet and the need for image digitization, scanners have gone mainstream. Pen scanners, also known as digital highlighters, are the next step in scanner evolution. According to International Data...

Sun Remains On Top Of The Unix-Based Workstation Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 28, 2000... For the first time in several years, both Unix and Windows NT workstation shipments grew, according to International Data Corp. (IDC). In 1999, Unix shipments increased due to strong demand for entry-level systems for Internet development,...

Yankelovich Survey Commissioned By Lets Talk.com Finds That Americans Expect "James Bond"-Style Phones.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 28, 2000... Almost 70 percent of people surveyed by a national Yankelovich poll said that in the future they expect to use wireless phones to send and receive e-mail and to use Global Positioning Systems (GPS) location-based services. According to the...

CYNET INC. LAUNCHES WIRELESS DIV.; DELL COMPUTERS IINCLUDED IN WIRELESS MARKETING STRATEGY.
February 28, 2000... CYNET Inc., a leader in business to business communications solutions, announced the launch of CYNET Wireless, a new division formed to better service their wireless customers and focus on the development of superior wireless technology. ...

CNN.COM TO BE PREMIER BROADCAST NEW PROVIDER ON NETSCAPE NETCENTER & ON ICQ.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 28, 2000... Building on a series of commercial agreements and announcements made on January 10 at the announcement of the merger agreement between the two companies, America Online Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and Time Warner,...

LATEST ENHANCEMENTS TO HP PROCURVE SWITCH FAMILY UNDERSCORE QUEST FOR INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 28, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co., a leader in networking technologies, revealed a roadmap for future enhancements to its flagship HP ProCurve family of Layer 2+ switches (HP ProCurve Switch 800M, 4000M, 2424M and 1600M), reiterating its leadership position...

HIGH SPEED PORTABLE HARD DRIVE CLONING SYSTEM OFFERS EXPANDABILITY.(Logicube's Logicube OmniClone Replique 2/5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 28, 2000... Logicube Inc., a formerly Online Device International, delivers a breakthrough new hard drive cloning system that clones OS and applications from a primary hard drive to two target drives at record speeds (exceeding 800MB/minute). The...

JOINT OFFERING HELP COMPANIES MANAGE COSTS & REDUCE RISKS.(Technology Solutions and MCI WorldCom UUNet division)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 28, 2000... Technology Solutions Co. announced that it has selected MCI WorldCom as its preferred supplier for network and data center services. Through this strategic relationship, TSC, a leading eBusiness systems integrator, will provide clients with a...