EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from May 2005

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from May 2005

MCI intros next-gen Ethernet solutions internationally.(new software)
May 2, 2005... MCI, Inc. has unveiled a new suite of next-generation global Ethernet solutions, offering businesses like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc., the largest futures exchange in the U.S., an economical and flexible way to extend their local area...

Toshiba announces multi-function projector for premium presentations.(Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.)
May 2, 2005... Toshiba's Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. and provider of industry-leading portable computers, projectors and other mobile-related services and products, has launched the TDP-TW300U projector...

Vitesse accelerates gigabit Ethernet time-to-market with WebSparX software stack.(Vitesse Semiconductor Corp.)
May 2, 2005... Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has announced the availability of a complete, royalty-free software stack for its SparX-G5 and SparXG8 series of Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch systems-on-a-chip. Eliminating all significant development expenses and...

VitalStream acquires PlayStream to expand streaming platform for the SMB, SOHO and reseller markets.(small and medium-size businesses, small and home office)
May 2, 2005... VitalStream Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:VSTH), the parent company of VitalStream, Inc., a streaming media solutions and global content delivery network (CDN) provider, has announced that it has acquired the business of PlayStream, LLC, a leading...

GoldenGate Software extends its offerings with support for Oracle 10g.
May 2, 2005... GoldenGate Software Inc., a provider of transactional data management solutions, has announced support for Oracle Database 10g and 10g RAC. With a growing trend toward high-performance, low-cost grids, thousands of organizations are...

ADC intros new high-performance CopperTen Patch panel for 10g Ethernet over UTP.(unshielded twisted pair)
May 2, 2005... ADC has introduced a new high-performance TrueNet CopperTen Patch Panel for 10-gigabit Ethernet transmission. The patch panel features a modular design and offset jack positioning to counter the negative effects of alien crosstalk. The new...

Seapine Software's QA Wizard 3.1 adds optical character recognition & remote script monitoring.
May 2, 2005... Seapine Software, Inc., a provider of adaptable application lifecycle management (AALM) solutions, announced recently the immediate availability of QA Wizard 3.1 for automated functional testing of Windows and Web applications. New features in...

Fujitsu announces the availability of Interstage Contentbiz version 7.(Fujitsu Software Corp.)
May 2, 2005... Fujitsu Software Corporation has announced the availability of Interstage Contentbiz v7, the newest version of Fujitsu's scalable application platform for enterprise content integration. Interstage Contentbiz v7 extends support for Web services...

AMD announces world's first 64-bit, X86 multi-core processors for servers and workstations.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
May 9, 2005... Charting another industry first, AMD (NYSE:AMD) recently introduced a broad portfolio of dual-core solutions from server and workstations for enterprise users to desktop and desktop-replacement notebooks for consumers and business users. At the...

Hitachi boosts speed for industrial-strength notebook hard drive.(new product from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)
May 9, 2005... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has set a new notebook performance record, announcing recently worldwide availability of the fastest 2.5-inch hard drive for mobile applications. The 7200 RPM Travelstar 7K100 is first to market with...

Toshiba's TDP-T40U mobile projector provides high-quality performance at an affordable price.(Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Digital Products Division)
May 9, 2005... Toshiba's Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and provider of industry-leading portable computers, projectors and other mobile-related services and products, has introduced the TDP-T40U projector,...

Arrow Electronics enables IBM business partners to deliver on solution sales.
May 9, 2005... The Support Net Division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), one of the largest value-added distributors of IBM enterprise products and integration services, is helping Business Partners better address customers' pain-points associated with...

Aprio Technologies announces partnership with NEC Electronics for advanced RET solutions.
May 9, 2005... Aprio Technologies Inc., the technology leader in design-for-manufacturing (DFM) solutions, has announced its first technology partnership with NEC Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Aprio's DFM products will...

Aventail first SSL VPN with complete end point control for MAC devices.(secure sockets layer virtual private networks)
May 9, 2005... Aventail Corporation is making it easier and more secure for Mac users to gain remote access to critical applications from anywhere. The SSL VPN company's latest platform release includes the market's first complete End Point Control solution...

Sygate delivers first network access control solution to enforce security on Macintosh computers.(Sygate Technologies Inc.)
May 9, 2005... Sygate Technologies, the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, has announced it has extended its award-winning Sygate Secure Enterprise (SSE) software to Macintosh computers. The Sygate Security Agent for Macintosh is the...

SAIC acquires Object Sciences Corp.(Science Applications International Corp.)
May 16, 2005... Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Object Sciences Corporation (OSC), based in Alexandria, Va. OSC provides an array of information technology solutions to the federal...

Toshiba TDP-SW25U wireless projector provides high performance and portability.(Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.)
May 16, 2005... Toshiba's Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. and provider of industry-leading portable computers, projectors and other mobile-related services and products, has introduced the TDP-SW25U wireless...

New Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor increases clock frequency by 25 percent.
May 16, 2005... Xilinx, Inc. has announced immediate availability of the performance-optimized 4.00 version of its MicroBlaze soft processor. The 32-bit RISC core now operates at frequencies up to 200 MHz in Virtex-4 FPGAs delivering an impressive 25 percent...

IBM and Lawson team to deliver open and integrated business solutions to customers.
May 16, 2005... IBM and Lawson Software has announced that Lawson will optimize and standardize its comprehensive business applications portfolio on IBM's open standards-based software and hardware, and the companies will jointly market pre-integrated...

MobiNote DP7010 portable media player achieves full DivX Certification.(MobiNote Technology Corporation)
May 16, 2005... DivX, Inc., the company that created the revolutionary, patent-pending DivX video compression technology, and MobiNote Technology Corporation, a pioneer in the mobile video industry, has announced that the MobiNote DP7010 portable media player...

IBM acquires Gluecode Software.
May 16, 2005... IBM has announced it has acquired Gluecode Software, a privately held company based in El Segundo, Calif., and provider of software and support services for open source application infrastructure software. Financial details were not disclosed....

Oracle pays $8m to settle whistleblower claims.
May 16, 2005... United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan has announced that the United States has settled civil claims arising out of a whistleblower suit brought by a former Vice-President of North American Sales for Oracle University, a division of ORACLE...

New AMD Geode processor to provide full desktop functionality on mobile, embedded devices.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
May 23, 2005... Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has announced availability of the AMD Geode LX 800@0.9W processor, enabling consumers to experience full-featured, desktop-style computing on a new generation of x86 architecture-based embedded and mobile devices....

Samsung joins IBM and Chartered on 90-nanometer common design-enablement platform.(Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Inc., Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)
May 23, 2005... IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, have announced that Samsung has licensed the 90-nanometer (nm) common design enablement technology utilized by IBM and Chartered. As a result of this license...

TCS launches BlackBerry 7250.(TeleCommunication Systems Inc.)
May 23, 2005... TeleCommunication Systems, a leader in mission critical wireless data has announced an agreement with Research In Motion to bring the BlackBerry 7250 Wireless Handheld to TCS customers in the United States. With BlackBerry, mobile...

Elpida's 512m DDR2 SO-DIMMS offer low-power operation, improved thermal performance for notebook apps.(Elpida Memory Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), has announced its 512 Megabyte DDR2 Small-Outline Dual In-line Memory Modules (SO-DIMMs). The modules utilize next-generation 512 Megabit DDR2 SDRAM...

One third of all software in use still pirated, major study finds.
May 23, 2005... Thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion. These are...

Dassault Systemes and IBM announce Version 5 release 15 of lifecycle MGMT portfolio.
May 23, 2005... Dassault Systemes and IBM have announced the release of Version 5 Release 15 (V5R15) of their product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, and ENOVIA and SMARTEAM for product data and...

AMD "shatters the hourglass" with the arrival of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
May 30, 2005... Completing the world's only broad dual-core client and server processor line-up, AMD has announced the immediate availability of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor is poised to deliver an...

Supermicro launches dual-core product line based on Intel 955X & 945G/P chipsets.(SuperMicro Computer Systems Inc.)
May 30, 2005... Supermicro Computer has announced the launch of their first Intel dual-core products. Featuring an Intel dual-core processor, these optimized solutions provide a substantial performance boost to help meet and exceed customers' ever expanding...

Gartner slightly raises its PC forecast based on stronger mobile PC sales.
May 30, 2005... Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to total 202.1 million units in 2005, a 10.2 percent increase from 2004, according to a preliminary forecast by Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts previously projected worldwide PC shipments would increase 9.9...

F5's FirePass controller leads the SSL VPN market in Japan.(secure sockets layer virtual private networks, F5 Networks Inc.)
May 30, 2005... F5 Networks, Inc. has announced that a recent study by global growth consulting company, Frost & Sullivan ranks F5 Networks as the leader with 35.7% market share in Japan's SSL VPN space. "F5 Networks has shown remarkably strong growth in...

Hitachi delivers extreme performance and reliability with new 15K RPM Enterprise hard drives.(Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, radio packet modem)
May 30, 2005... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced that it has begun shipping Ultrastar 15K147 hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel (4GFC) interfaces. SAS is a next-generation serial interface...

Propel Software launches Propel Accelerator 5.1--delivers superior speed and image quality.
May 30, 2005... Propel Software Corporation, a global market leader in Internet acceleration solutions, today announced Propel Accelerator 5.1. Using a proprietary compression algorithm, Propel Accelerator 5.1 adds new features, increased speed and expanded...

Homeland Security Inc. to test launch the "Quarterback", a multipurpose pneumatic launch system for urban warfare.(Homeland Security Technology Inc.)
May 30, 2005... Colonel Jeffrey Powers, CEO of Homeland Security Technology, Inc. (a division of Amnis, Inc., has announced that HST, Inc. and Joint Venture Partner Digital Force Technologies unveiled the "Quarterback", a multipurpose pneumatic launching...