EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from July 2000

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from July 2000

APPLE BACK ON THE SHELF.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... Apple Computer, Inc. has made a reinvigorated entry into the retail market with a series of efforts designed to enhance its exposure in a number of additional national outlets. Apple had a history of being difficult for the smaller retailer...

IBM, COMPAQ DATE STORAGE ALLIANCE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... IBM and Compaq Computer Corp., in an effort targeted at EMC Corp. the sector leader, have agreed to a mutual data storage alliance where each will sell the other's key data storage products. The alliance anticipates spending $1 billion over the...

UTILIZING HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... The rapid expansion of business into e-commerce has created a new model in data management. IT shops must now cope with a steady stream of mission critical data. Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) is a solution to data management. HSM...

SHARP EXPANDS DIGITAL COLOR OFFERINGS.(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... Sharp Document & Network Systems of America (SDNA) announced the expansion of its digital color copier/printer line with the introduction of the AR-C250 Digital Color IMAGER. Building on the success of Sharp's first AR-C150 color IMAGER, the 25...

MSC.SOFTWARE RELEASES FIRST LINUX SIMULATION APPLIANCE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE: MNS), a leading developer of simulation software, announced the release of MSC.Nastran DMP (distributed memory parallel) on Linux, the first of its kind Linux simulation appliance, enabling customers to achieve...

HP SIGNS GLOBAL AGREEMENT WITH JNI : HP Signs Global Agreement With JNI For JNI Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... JNI Corp. (Nasdaq: JNIC), Fibre Channel host bus adapter company, announced it has signed a three-year, global value-added reseller agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to supply JNI's FibreStar host bus adapters for HP servers and storage...

IDC Ranks BroadVision First In The E-commerce Software Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... BroadVision Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN), a worldwide supplier of personalized e-business applications, announced that the analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC) has ranked BroadVision as the world's number one e-commerce software applications...

IDC Launches A New Program Covering The Information Security Marketplace.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... IDC announced the launch of a new research practice focused exclusively on the emerging information security marketplace. According to IDC, concerns within the executive ranks about enterprise security are increasing with every high-profile...

IDC Publishes Management Services Provider Market Forecast.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 10, 2000... Activity in the management services provider (MSP) market is heating up. In fact, IDC now believes the market is busy enough to warrant its own forecast. In a new IDCFLASH, IDC estimates worldwide revenues will reach $78 million in 2000 and...

IDC Says Oracle's Is The Fastest-Growing European Customer.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... In their May 2000 report on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Applications market in Western Europe - 'Preliminary Results: Customer Relationship Management Applications Vendor Ranking 1998-1999,' IDC confirmed that in the area of customer...

IDC Study Names Oracle #1 In Global Internet Procurement Applications.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Oracle Corp., the largest provider of software for e-business, announced that analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC) has determined Oracle is the world's No. 1 vendor of Internet procurement software. Oracle Internet procurement revenue...

ADC ANNOUNCES GLOBAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH COMPAQ.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT; www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, announced the signing of a global framework agreement with Compaq, covering the service...

INGRAM MICRO & IBM TO HELP RESELLERS DELIVER E-BUSINESS SOLUTIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the wholesale provider of technology products and services, announced that it will work with IBM to offer technology resellers e-business services and solutions aimed at the needs of their small-business customers....

FUJITSU INTRODUCES NEW MULTI-CHIP PACKAGE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 10, 2000... Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. (FMI) introduced three versions of the industry's first Multi-Chip Packages (MCPs) with stacked flash memory and Fujitsu's popular Fast Cycle RAM (FCRAM). The new stacked packages are designed...

CRT TERMINAL EMULATOR INCREASES SUPPORT FOR LINUX.(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... Van Dyke Technologies Inc., a provider of Internet software, announced the release of its CRT 3.1 terminal emulation software for Windows, with expanded support for Linux, and also Windows 2000 compatibility. Version 3.1 provides complete...

CONEXANT INTRODUCES MARKET'S FIRST SINGLE-CHIP SOLUTION FOR MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERALS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... Coexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT) announced the industry's first single-chip solution to enable full-color printing, faxing, scanning and copying capabilities. Designed for manufacturers of multifunction peripherals (MFPs), Conexant's...

DATARAM ACCELERATES E-COMMERCE PERFORMANCE WITH 4GB MEMORY SOLUTIONS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... Dataram Corp. (Nasdaq: DRAM) a provider of gigabyte-class memory for high-performance network servers, unveiled advanced 4GB memory upgrades for Compaq's high-performance AlphaServer ES40. Dataram's 4GB memory doubles the maximum capacity for...

ATI's RAGE MOBILITY-M1 GRAPHICS CHIP SELECTED FOR NEW COMPAQ PRESARIO 1700 NOTEBOOKS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE: ATY, Nasdaq: ATYT) announced that Compaq has selected ATI's RAGE Mobility-M1 graphics chip for its latest line of consumer Internet notebook PCs, the Compaq Presario 1700 series. The RAGE Mobility family of...

ILIUM SOFTWARE BUNDLED WITH NEW COMPAQ iPAQ POCKET PCs.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Ilium Software announced that Compaq Computer Corp. has selected eWallet, a secure electronic wallet program, and ListPro, a flexible, powerful list and note manager, for bundling with the new iPAQ Pocket PCs. Versions of eWallet and...

NEW HIGH CAPACITY 30 Gb & 20 Gb DRIVES FOR APPLE POWERBOOKS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Trans Intl. announced the online availability of two new high capacity 2.5 inch 30 Gb and 20 Gb hard disk drives for expanding internal storage of Apple Powerbooks G3's and ibooks. With the availability of these new drives Apple Powerbook...

SOYO ANNOUNCES MOTHERBOARDS FOR AMD THUNDERBIRD & DURON CPUs.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... SOYO Inc. announced the SY-K7VTA and SY-K7VMM, a pair of new motherboards designed to maximize AMD's single Socket-A CPUs, including the high-performance Thunderbird and Duron processors to 1GHz. SOYO's new SY-K7VTA has a Socket A-based...

TANGENT COMPUTER ANNOUNCES ROLL-ALONG NOTEBOOK LABS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 10, 2000... Tangent Computer announced the availability of a mobile, wireless notebook lab designed specifically for education. The Roll-along Notebook Lab consists of a mobile cart, networking equipment, and up to 36 notebook computers. The mobile...

AOL BUYS STAKE IN VOICE RECOGNITION.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... AOL has joined AT&T and Net2Phone, Inc., in purchasing a minority share in SpeechWorks, a participant in the fast growing market for voice access to online services. AOL will purchase $5 million in SpeechWorks common stock with an option...

MICROSOFT APPEAL TICKING.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... In a series of interviews given to the press, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruminated on why the Microsoft case should go directly to the Supreme Court rather than to the Court of Appeals. He recited its overall importance to the American...

NTT DoCoMo BID FOR VoiceStream.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... NTT DoCoMo is considering a bid for 49 percent of VoiceStream Wireless at $52 billion in partnership with Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. The bid at $200 per share is designed to preempt Deutsche Telecom AG's $180 per share bid. The...

DELL ABANDONS WEBPC.(Product Information)
July 17, 2000... Dell Computer has terminated its production of the WebPC, the sub-$1,000 Internet access machine. The WebPC was introduced less than 9 months ago, and never caught on with consumers. Dell did not disclose the level of its write off in this...

PMC-Sierra Inc. To Acquire Quantum Effect Devices Inc.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... PMC-Sierra, in a transaction which it expects will provide it with a significant presence in the design of high-speed networks will acquire Quantum Effect Devices, Inc., a maker of microprocessors used in consumer electronics. The acquisition...

JDS UNIPHASE CORP. ACQUIRES SDL INC. FOR $41B.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... Optical networks that transmit information using pulses of light modulated by lasers are infinitely more efficient than copper wires. Therein lies the tale of why SDL, Inc. has agreed to be acquired by JDS Uniphase for $41 billion. The optical...

COMPUTERCHIP HIGH CAPACITY WAFER.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... The semiconductor industry are increasing efforts to produce silicon wafers that are 300 millimeters in diameter with a potential of increasing productivity by 500% at a 30-40% increased cost in processing. This effort is expected to...

MICROSOFT'S GATES INVESTS IN ICO-TELEDIESIC GLOBAL.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... Bill Gates, along with other investors, will invest some $3 million into ICO-Teledesic Global, a company being developed from the satellite assets of cellular entrepreneur Craig McCaw. The company is an effort to operate a satellite based...

Neonyoyo Wireless Technology Acquired.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... Neonyoyo, a privately owned developer of wireless technology, has been acquired by Interwoven, the Internet software developer. Interwoven intends to use Neonyoyo's technology in its own software products. The acquired company will become a...

Worldwide Consulting Revenues Will Near $125 Billion In 2004.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 17, 2000... Along with large growth, the consulting market will experience heightened competition, significantly altering market dynamics. According to IDC, the Internet economy will help to more than double worldwide consulting revenues from $60.1 billion...

IDC Report Defines New Content Security Market.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 17, 2000... Content Technologies announced the release of the first analyst report to define the content security market. The report is entitled "Content Security, Policy-Based Information Protection and Data Integrity." The report estimates that this...

Highs & Lows In A Segmented Collaborative Applications Market.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 17, 2000... Like a family made up of many different personalities, the collaborative applications market consists of younger and older segments that interact on some levels while operating independently on others. The biggest segment achieves growth in...

IDC Ranks Silvon No. 1 In Revenue For Packaged Data Marts.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... A report recently published by IDC, a leading research and analyst firm serving the IT industry, ranked Silvon as the leading vendor in terms of 1999 software license and maintenance revenue for the packaged data mart market, consisting of...

Market Share Rankings In Key Segments Of The Semiconductor Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... Samsung and Hyundai are slugging it out for the leading market share position in the DRAM segment, Texas Instruments is hanging on in the hard disk drive (HDD) market, but the other segments of the semiconductor market have clear cut leaders....

Intel's New Chip.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... Intel has renamed its high-end chip, preliminarily named Williamette, as Pentium 4, which will be the successor to Intel's Pentium III microprocessor. Pentium III was designed to run at a speed of nearly 1 gigahertz. The speed of the new...

CADENCE & HP TO POWER DEVELOPMENT OF NEXT-GENERATION ELECTRONIC DESIGN SOLUTIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NYSE: CDN) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HWP) announced a far-reaching business alliance whereby the companies will jointly develop, market, and sell new solutions for the electronic design automation (EDA) market....

DELL ANNOUNCES DIMENSION 4100 SERIES WITH CUTTING-EDGE COMPONENTS & PERIPHERALS.(Product Announcement)
July 17, 2000... Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), a leading direct computer systems company and a provider of Internet infrastructure products and services, announced the Dell Dimension 4100 series of desktops, offering advanced performance capabilities at a new mid-range...

CIRRUS LOGIC TEAMS WITH SONY TO DOUBLE CD-RW STORAGE CAPACITY.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... Cirrus Logic Inc. (Nasdaq: CRUS), a market leader of ReWritable Compact Disc (CD-RW) chips, announced a new CD-RW drive device that offers twice the storage capacity of current solution. This new double-density encoder/decoder, designated...

Earthlink Says No To Big Brother Watching.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... The FBI has leaped with both feet into the contemporary issue of privacy by developing and deploying an automated system which enables it to essentially wiretap the Internet. The new computer monitoring system called "Carnivore" has already...

AOL LAUNCHES MEXICO SERVICE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... American Online, Inc. (AOL) announced plans to launch a Spanish-language Internet access service in Mexico. An earlier English-language service had been announced as part of its effort to establish a substantial subscriber base outside of the...

M-SYSTEMS' DISKONCHIP RECEIVES BROAD INDUSTRY SUPPORT.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLSH) announced that leading Linux operating system developers are providing support for DiskOnChip in existing and upcoming Linux distributions. Lineo, a leading developer of embedded Linux...

NOKIA TO ADD STREAMING SOFTWARE TO PHONES.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 17, 2000... Nokia, the Finnish cell phone manufacturer, has negotiated an alliance with RealNetworks to provide software which will allow customers to listen to music and potentially watch video over a newly developed Nokia wireless phone. The...

VINDIGO SYNCHRONIZES MAC USERS WITH PERSONAL NAVIGATION SOFTWARE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 17, 2000... Vindigo, a leading developer of personal navigation applications for handheld devices, announced the availability of a Vindigo Conduit for the Macintosh, opening access to its free mobile service for Palm OS-based handheld devices to Apple...

AGFA INTRODUCES THE ARCUS 1200 SCANNER.(Product Announcement)
July 17, 2000... Agfa Corp.'s Consumer Digital Imaging Group (USA-CDI), a leading provider of award-winning digital cameras and desktop scanners, introduced the Arcus 1200 color scanner. This new generation scanner combines features from the award-winning Arcus...

NEW APPLICATIONS MOVE LINUX OUT OF THE LAB AND INTO THE OFFICE.(Product Announcement)
July 17, 2000... IT managers are rapidly discovering that Linux is a remarkably complete operating system, as reliable for business use as is a comprehensive UNIX system, and at a much lower cost. With the launch of UniQPrint for Linux, Macro 4 has added output...

DOCUTOUCH RELEASES DOCUSIGN, A DIGITAL SIGNATURE PROCESS FOR MICROSOFT WORD 2000.(Product Announcement)
July 17, 2000... DocuTouch, a Seattle-based ASP specializing in online technology for creating and authenticating legally binding documents, released a plug-in for Microsoft Word2000 that allows users to mark and sign documents at the paragraph level. The...

RED HAT UNVEILS LINUX CLUSTERING SOLUTION.(Product Announcement)
July 17, 2000... Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), a leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, announced the Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0, a specialized version of the award winning Red Hat Linux 6.2 solution. Red Hat High Availability...

IBM's Super Computer.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 17, 2000... International Business Machine Corp. (IBM) has announced that it has completed the most powerful supercomputer ever built. The Asci White RS 6000 SP supercomputer has reached 12.3 trillion operations a second, which is a measure of computer...

APPLE UNVEILS ENTIRELY NEW DESKTOP LINE.(Product Announcement)
July 24, 2000... Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) introduced an entirely new line of desktops including the revolutionary new Power Mac G4 Cube, an all-new iMac family and dual-processor Power Mac G4s. Apple's new desktops ship standard with Apple's new, innovative optical...

COMPAQ's NEW PCs OFFER CUSTOMIZATION.(Product Announcement)
July 24, 2000... Compaq Computer Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) announced a new line of Presario PCs specifically designed to be personalized by customers. The new PCs include a 'pop-off' panel that makes upgrades simple and are available in a variety of...

MEDIA METRIX REPORTS GATEWAY & COMPAQ LEAD US HOME PC PENETRATION.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... For the first time, Gateway and Compaq have taken the lead from Packard Bell as the most owned brand of Windows PCs at home in the United States, each with 10.3 percent share of US home Windows PC users compared to Packard Bell's 9.2 percent of...

COMPAQ & SEAGATE SUED FOR $800 MILLION.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 24, 2000... Convolve Inc. announced that it and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as obligated through its license agreement with Convolve, filed a lawsuit against Compaq Computer Corp. and Seagate Technology Inc. in the US District Court...

CISCO REMAINS IN THE TOP POSITION IN TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS RESEARCH's 1Q00 NBQ RANKING.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 24, 2000... Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) remains in the top spot in TBR's (www.tbri.com) Network Business Quarterly competitive benchmark ranking based on its new contract win with SBC Communications. TBR's Director of Network Business Quarterly Bill...

Frost & Sullivan Predicts Explosive Growth In M-Commerce Markets.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... The rise in the number of professionals telecommuting has led to increased demand for mobile solutions for extended connectivity. Advances in wireless technologies are extending the Internet to a variety of portable devices and appliances,...

Gartner Survey: Retail Internet Fraud Is Twelve Times Higher Than Offline Fraud.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... E-commerce on retail Web sites is the wave of the future. However, fraud on the Internet is taking its toll on electronic retailers (e-tailers), who are getting hit not only by Internet fraud, but also by the credit card companies. A new...

Survey Reveals Why Many In Portland Don't Own A Computer.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... A survey of non-computer owners conducted in Portland indicates that complexity and high prices are two of the most significant factors preventing Portland consumers from purchasing a computer for their home. The first delivery of GlobalPC...

Frost & Sullivan Predicts Unified Messaging Markets To Shift Focus To Service Providers.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... Major vendors in the unified messaging markets are shifting their focus from the enterprise sector to service providers. The ASP model is rapidly being adopted to encourage service providers to offer unified messaging services. This should...

IDC Expects Strong Growth In The Information Access Tools Market.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... Revenues in the worldwide information access tool IAT) software market climbed almost 21 percent, approaching $8 billion in 1999 and growth in this market will remain above 20 percent at least through 2004. According to IDC, the market is on...

Transportation eMarketplaces Are Revving Up.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 24, 2000... The transportation industry is at a crossroads of transformational change. The industry, characterized by decades of relationship building and customized legacy transportation management systems, is witnessing the birth and proliferation of...

HP INTRODUCES FIRST MAC-COMPATIBLE FLATBED, ALL-IN-ONES.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 24, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the Mac-compatible HP OfficeJet G Series all-in-ones with space-saving, easy-to-use, presentation-quality functions. The HP OfficeJet G Series all-in-ones complement HP's line of Mac-compatible peripherals and...

INTEL INTRODUCES HDS12 ROUTER FOR HIGH-SPEED INTERNET ACCESS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 24, 2000... Intel Corp. announced a router, based on the new American National Standards Institute (ANSI) High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL2) standard. The Intel Express 9545 enables the delivery of full 1.5 megabit per second or "T1" speeds over a...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INTROS. INTEGRATED CIRCUITS TO SUPPORT HIGH-SPEED INTERNET ACCESS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 24, 2000... Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) Microelectronics Group, a leader in communications semiconductors, announced three new low-power integrated circuits (ICs) that enable transmission of voice, video and high-speed data signals over passive optical...

IBM TO DISTRIBUTE LANDMARK SOLUTIONS TO CUSTOMERS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Landmark Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: LDMK), a provider of software products and services that help organizations manage critical information technology systems and e-business operations, announced that IBM has selected Landmark's products to...

NETLOJIX & XEROX CONNECT INC. EXECUTE STRATEGIC TEAMING AGREEMENT.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 24, 2000... NetLojix (Nasdaq: SmallCap:NETX), a leading eBusiness enabler that provides network infrastructure and technical support to the mid-size business market, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Xerox Connect Inc., a wholly owned...

LUCENT SPINS-OFF MICROELECTRONICS UNIT.(Company Operations)
July 24, 2000... Lucent Technologies, Inc., has formally announced what was a widely expected spin-off of its microelectronics unit, into a publicly traded company. The spin-off which will be valued in excess of $80 billion was announced by Chairman and CEO...

SUN MICROSYSTEMS STRATEGY FOR DOMINATION.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Sun Microsystems has a strategy for dominating the Internet market for server computers, and has put up profit numbers designed to attract Wall Street acknowledgment of its dominant position. Sun released sales growth figures during the...

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM'S $50.5B TROUBLED BID FOR VOICESTREAM.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 31, 2000... In a move designed to make it the first wireless company which operates in both Europe and North America, and a major step in providing customer access for cell phone usage anywhere in the world, Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG has approved the...

MICROSOFT: SUGGESTS SUPREME COURT SHARE ITS REVIEW BURDEN.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... Predictably, Microsoft has urged the Supreme Court not to deprive itself of the advantages of a Court of Appeals review of its adverse antitrust decision. As reported in Millin's EDP Weekly and Software Industry Report in recent weeks, the...

British Telecom Awards Contract To Marconi.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... British Telecommunications, focused on optical electronics for its proposed European broadband network, awarded British electronics company Marconi a five-year contract valued at $3.04 million. In the same announcement British...

PALM, INC. INTRODUCES LOW-END HAND-HELD COMPUTER.(Palm M100)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... Palm, Inc. has announced that it will introduce an inexpensive hand-held computer ($149) called the M100 targeted to the mass market and sold at the same price as its older model PalmIII. The new model will have 4 megabytes of memory and...

ENHANCED SBC WIRELESS SERVICES TO BEGIN ROLL-OUT BY FOURTH QUARTER 2000.(Licensing deal with InfoSpace)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 31, 2000... SBC Wireless, a leader in global communications, and InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading provider of information and commerce infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, announced that SBC has selected InfoSpace's...

SILICON GRAPHICS NAMES NEW CFO.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, named Harold Covert as CFO, who previously held the same title at Red Hat, Inc., and finance chief at Adobe Systems, Inc., of San Jose, CA. The announcement accompanied SGI's release of its fiscal...

IBM Names Palmisano As President & COO.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... Confirming what has been rumored for some time, Samuel J. Palmisano has been named President and COO of IBM, essentially assuring that he will succeed Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. as IBM's chief. Mr. Palmisano, 48, has shepherded several new...

Data Access Fosters Growth In Cellular Handset Market.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 31, 2000... Wireless terminals have quietly slipped into the dominant hardware role for the new millennium, according to Cahners In-Stat Group. The high-tech market research firm believes that while low margins have been a problem up until now, data...

Today's e-Marketplaces may Become Tomorrow's Virtual Supply Chains.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 31, 2000... While e-marketplaces have gained substantial press coverage, Cahners In-Stat Group, a high-tech market research firm, believes that virtual supply chain integration (V-SCI) represents the next wave of evolution for business-to-business...

Broadband Wireless Revenues To Exceed $17B By 2005.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 31, 2000... IGI Consulting's (IGIC) new report, "Wireless Access 2000," predicts that Broadband Wireless Revenues will top $17 billion by 2005, up from $5 billion in 2002, and $800 million in 2000, a CAGR of 92 percent over the five-year period. The report...

IDC Advises IT Vendors Not To Overlook The Middle Market.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 31, 2000... IDC has a message to IT vendors: Don't ignore the middle market. According to the market research firm, the middle market - made up of companies with 100-999 employees - represents a golden opportunity. In 1999, the US middle market was 89,800...

Poll Indicates We're Not Quite Ready For Robots.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 31, 2000... Fourteen percent of the US adult population works at a company that currently employs robots, and an equal percentage believes that a robot eventually may perform their jobs. The findings, from a joint Red Herring magazine/Angus Reid Group poll...

CISCO & HP ACCELERATE ADOPTION OF CUSTOMER CONTACT SOLUTIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 31, 2000... Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a joint initiative to accelerate the deployment of contact center solutions offering global consulting, systems integration and e-services to enterprise and service provider customers. This...

LUCENT TO ACQUIRE PROVIDER OF ADVANCED IP SERVICES NETWORK EQUIPMENT.(Spring Tide Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) said it will acquire Spring Tide Networks, a leader in network switching equipment that allows service providers to offer customers a broad portfolio of Internet Protocol (IP) services such as virtual private...

SWEDEN'S INTERNET SOCIETY ATTRACTS INVESTMENT FROM US TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES.(Government Activity)
July 31, 2000... The Swedish government has passed "broadband everywhere" legislation designed to provide high-speed Internet access to every household in the country. The new legislation, recently approved in June 2000, will leverage the country's...

CHIP MARKET STILL STRONG DESPITE ANALYSTS' PESSIMISM.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 31, 2000... Recent analysts have concluded that a peak has been reached in the semiconductor chip manufacturing cycle but manufacturers disagree. Texas Instruments' CFO William Aylesworth sees a continued strong market for their product through the...