EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from March 2005

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from March 2005

Sharp announces second generation 3D notebook.(Sharp Systems of America)
March 7, 2005... Following a wake of awards and recognition for the Sharp Actius Notebook line, Sharp Systems of America has announced the availability of the Sharp Actius AL3D. Featuring Sharp's 3D LCD Screen Technology, the Actius AL3D represents Sharp's...

NEC: two-tier sap SD standard app benchmark on Itanium 2-based server.(sales and distribution, NEC Solutions Inc.)
March 7, 2005... NEC Solutions, a provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America, has announced its Express5800/ 1320Xe server based on Intel Itanium 2 processors, took top industry marks in the twotier SAP Sales and Distribution...

Intermec 761 mobile computer certified for voice and data on Sprint Nationwide PCS network.(Intermec Technologies Corp.)
March 7, 2005... Intermec Technologies Corp. has announced the new Intermec 761 mobile computer has been approved for operation on the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network. A continuation of Intermec's popular 700 series, the 761 supports both voice and data...

Teknovus EPON chips power world's first triple-play EPON network.(ethernet passive optical network)
March 7, 2005... Teknovus, a provider of semiconductors for broadband optical access networks, today announced that its TK3700-series Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chipset is being used in KDDI's Hikari-Plus Home Fiber To-The-Home (FTTH) service....

Green Hills Software and AICAS announce integrity RTOS integration with the JamaicaVM.(virtual machine)
March 7, 2005... Green Hills Software, Inc. announced recently the availability of aicas' JamaicaVM realtime Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS. The JamaicaVM supports INTEGRITY native threads and inter-process communication,...

Exact software introduces new EDI solution for supply chains.(electronic data interchange)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Exact Software, a provider of solutions that connect the people, processes and knowledge essential to an organization, has announced the availability of a new electronic data interchange (EDI) solution that provides a critical new level of...

Microsoft Time Warner Thomson complete acquisition of ContentGuard.
March 14, 2005... Microsoft, Time Warner and Thomson have announced completion of their three-way acquisition of ContentGuard. ContentGuard is a developer of Digital Rights Management technologies. The term Digital Rights Management describes a wide range...

IBM now offers ATI's high-end FireGL 'TM' V7100 workstation graphics accelerator in the IBM IntelliStation line.(ATI Technologies Inc.)
March 14, 2005... ATI Technologies Inc., a leader in the discrete PC and workstation graphics market, has announced that IBM has selected the powerful FireGL V7100 high-end workstation graphics accelerator for the IBM IntelliStation Pro line. Having previously...

Samsung delivers next gen memory modules for high density data processing.(Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced memory technology, has announced sample production of the next-generation memory module for servers and workstations--a fully buffered, dual in-line memory module (FB DIMM) based on DDR2...

ATI launches industry's most powerful DirectX 9 integrated chipset for Intel platforms.(ATI Technologies Inc.)
March 14, 2005... ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY) (NASDAQ:ATYT), has announced the introduction and general availability of a new high performance integrated chipset for desktop Intel platforms--RADEON XPRESS 200. This new PCI Express chipset is designed to...

Novell ships Open Enterprise Server.
March 14, 2005... Novell has announced that Novell Open Enterprise Server is now available to customers worldwide. Open Enterprise Server is a secure and reliable suite of services that combines NetWare and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server to deliver proven file,...

Cisco extends its leadership in network-based storage virtualization through Intelligent Fabric Applications.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
March 14, 2005... Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) have unveiled significant updates to its network-based storage virtualization solutions that will help Cisco and a wide variety of independent software vendors (ISVs) jointly address key customer pain points...

Army HPC Research Center nearly triples power of record-setting Cray X1 Supercomputer with Cray X1E upgrade.(Network Computing Services Inc., contract)
March 14, 2005... Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. has announced that Network Computing Services, Inc. (NCSI) has acquired and installed a Cray X1E vector supercomputer for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC). This system upgrade...

DOD awards enhanced Crypto Card development contract to SafeNet.(United States. Department of Defense)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... SafeNet, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFNT), setting the standard for information security, announced that it's subsidiary, Mykotronx, Incorporated (A SafeNet Company), was awarded a contract from the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop the Enhanced Crypto...

AMD ushers in a New Era in 64-bit mobile computing with AMD Turion 64 mobile technology.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
March 21, 2005... AMD has introduced AMD Turion 64 mobile technology, the latest in a succession of computing innovations based on the industry-leading AMD64 architecture. AMD Turion 64 mobile technology is uniquely optimized to bring award-winning AMD64...

IBM completes acquisition of Corio.
March 21, 2005... IBM has announced the completion of its acquisition of Corio, Inc., seven weeks after reaching a definitive agreement to purchase the San Carlos, Calif.-based company. Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE:IR) is among the customers that will take...

ADIC upgrades Scalar 100 tape library.(Advanced Digital Information Corp.)
March 21, 2005... Advanced Digital Information Corporation, the leader in Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market, has announced an upgrade to its Scalar 100 enterprise tape library designed to make it easier for IT departments to support mixed...

Xilinx announces low cost development platform for Virtex-4 SX.
March 21, 2005... Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq:XLNX) has announced the immediate availability of its ML402 board--the first XtremeDSP evaluation platform supporting the company's DSP optimized Virtex-4 SX FPGA family. With a ratio of XtremeDSP to logic slices unmatched...

Sealevel Systems introduces new SeaI/O digital I/O solutions.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Sealevel Systems Inc. announces two additions to the popular SeaI/O family of modular I/O products, each offering 96 channels of TTL digital I/O. Both products are designed for interfacing a variety of real-world I/O, including industry...

Xiotech offers Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap Service and Storage Services Module in networked storage solution.(Cisco Systems Inc., storage area networks)
March 21, 2005... Xiotech Corporation has announced that it is delivering networked storage solutions featuring Magnitude 3D storage area networks (SANs) and TimeScale replication appliances with Cisco's MDS 9000 SANTap Service and Storage Services Module (SSM)....

Green Hills' INTEGRITY RTOS selected by Keri Systems for building security system.(Green Hills Software Inc.)
March 21, 2005... Green Hills Software, Inc., a leader in embedded software development tools and real-time operating systems, has announced that its INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) has been selected by Keri Systems for use in its Access Control...

Samsung NAND Flash software to enable higher performance in Palm Powered smart phones.(PalmSource, partnership)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has announced that it has reached agreement with PalmSource to work together to port Samsung NAND Flash software into the Palm OS Cobalt and future releases of the Palm operating system. The planned solutions...

Ramtron announces 1-megabit FRAM memory.(ferroelectric random access memory, Ramtron International Corp.)
March 28, 2005... Ramtron International, a leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) products, has announced the availability of the FM20L08, a one-megabit (Mbit), 3-volt, nonvolatile FRAM product in a 32-pin TSOP...

Exabyte launches new program to help VARs build tape automation practice and capitalize on strong new market.(value added resellers)
March 28, 2005... Responding to the strong market demand for its family of tape automation products, Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB:EXBT), an innovator in tape backup, restore and archival systems, recently announced a new Program to help VARs establish a Tape...

Trapeze attacks growing Linux market with first certified RADIUS solution.(Trapeze Networks Inc.)
March 28, 2005... Trapeze Networks, maker of award-winning wireless local area networking (WLAN) systems, has announced Certification Status for the Trapeze Mobility System on Novell's SUSE Linux and eDirectory. The FreeRADIUS implementation that ships with...

Tandberg Data debuts world's smallest LTO-2 drive.(new tape drive)
March 28, 2005... InoStor Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA (OSE:TAD), has announced the industry's fastest and most compact half-height LTO Ultrium 2 tape drive. The Tandberg 420LTO backs up 200GB (native capacity) at 24MB/s (native) inside...

Microchip Technology announces dsPIC30F speech recognition library.
March 28, 2005... Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP), a provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced a speech recognition library for its 16-bit dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). The dsPIC30F Speech Recognition Library...

U.S. Joint Forces command deploys Xythos to support multinational forces Iraq.(United States. Joint Forces Command, Xythos Software)
March 28, 2005... Xythos Software, a developer of simple document and file management software, has announced that the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has successfully deployed the company's WebFile Server (WFS) to support its Cross Domain Collaborative...