InfoWorld.com articles from January 2003

InfoWorld.com archives from January 2003

Global Crossing names new co-chairmen; Co-chairmen Jeremiah Lambert, Myron Ullman to lead company through reorg plan.(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Byline: John Blau GLOBAL CROSSING HOLDINGS, the bankrupt provider of bandwidth services, appointed on Tuesday two new co-chairmen after founder and Chairman Gary Winnick resigned the day before. Global Crossing named independent...

Cray ships X1 system with IBM chips; Company calls machine fastest supercomputer.(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit THE X1 SUPERCOMPUTER from Cray is now available with ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips designed by Cray and manufactured by IBM, the companies said Thursday. Announced in November, the Cray X1 is...

Analysis: To host CRM or not to host; With Microsoft CRM due soon, CRM ASPs evangelize outsourced model.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley WITH MICROSOFT'S FORTHCOMING CRM (customer relationship management) software drawing headlines and renewed industry attention to the CRM sector, several growing ASPs (application service providers) are seizing the...

Supreme Court stays DVD ruling; Stay prevents reposting of DeCSS software.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts THE U.S. SUPREME Court last week indicated its interest in a case involving a Texas citizen who was sued in California courts for posting software that can be used to illegally copy DVDs. On December 26, Justice...

Supreme Court stays DVD ruling; Stay prevents reposting of DeCSS software.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts THE U.S. SUPREME Court last week indicated its interest in a case involving a Texas citizen who was sued in California courts for posting software that can be used to illegally copy DVDs. On December 26, Justice...

Lucent lines up IP partnerships; Networking company looks to fill gaps in IP/MPLS lineup.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Jim Duffy, Network World Fusion LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES IS forming partnerships to fill the gaps in its IP/MPLS portfolio following the recent cancellation of its multiservice core packet switch. Sources say Lucent is in discussion...

The Net turns 20 ... sort of; Twenty years ago ARPANET switched over to TCP/IP.(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley LIKE THE AGE of the Earth or of Hollywood stars, estimates on the age of the Internet depend on whom you ask. By the calculations of one industry pioneer, this week marks the 20th birthday of the modern Internet. ...

Sun has 12-processor server on the way; Sun Fire v1280 ports high-end features to lower cost line.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Ashlee Vance SUN MICROSYSTEMS APPEARS to be readying a new 12-processor server that will bring some of the high-end features found in its more expensive systems down to its lower cost line of products. Details of a new server,...

Sybase hires HP exec to lead infrastructure group; Database company establishes platform unit.(Thomas Volk)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Byline: James Niccolai SYBASE HAS APPOINTED a former Hewlett-Packard executive to help boost its position in the market for software used to develop and integrate enterprise applications. Thomas Volk, most recently in charge of HP's...

Yaha virus lingers into the New Year; Virus still ranked as medium risk.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Laura Rohde A NEW VARIANT of the Yaha computer virus which emerged Dec. 21 and was detected on thousands of PCs over the holiday season appears to be making a gradual retreat but is still ranked as a "medium risk" by security...

Cyberthreats not to be dismissed, warns Clarke; Nation's economy at risk, Bush advisor says.
January 3, 2003... Byline: DAN VERTON, Computerworld THE U.S. HAS ignored warning signs before: two attempts by al-Qaeda in 1994 to use airplanes as weapons, as well as public statements in 2000 about terrorists being trained as pilots. Now Richard...

Supreme Court ends stay on DVD ruling; De-Content Scramble System is subject of dispute.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts THE U.S. SUPREME Court has lifted a temporary stay in a case involving a DVD industry group's efforts to sue a Texas man for violating a California state law governing trade secrets. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...

MACWORLD - Apple mum on new year's product crop; Show opens Monday.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Matt Berger IT'S A NEW year for Apple Computer, but the company is employing the same old tactics, remaining quiet about possible product announcements on tap for the Macworld Conference and Expo opening Monday in San Francisco....

Open-source Pick-like database being developed; MaVerick project under way.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill DEVELOPERS WITH AN outfit called the MaVerick Maintenance Team are building an open-source version of a Pick-like MultiValue database, with the project founder saying this data management format remains superior to SQL...

Quadbase releases Java-based charting tool.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2003... Byline: InfoWorld.com staff QUADBASE SYSTEMS EARLIER this week announced availability of EspressChart v4.0, a Java-based charting tool. EspressChart allows developers and users to develop and configure professional-looking charts via a...

Microsoft: from Research to reality; Senior VP Rick Rashid talks about wireless, natural language, and search research projects.(Interview)
January 3, 2003... Byline: Steve Gillmor, Jon Udell, and Tom Yager RICK RASHID, SENIOR vice president at Microsoft, heads up the Microsoft Research Group, which is charged with researching many of the innovative technologies transferred to key Microsoft...

Poll: Majority of Internet users want spam banned; Unsolicited bulk email called "very annoying".(Brief Article)
January 3, 2003... Byline: Matt Berger IF YOU ARE not very annoyed by spam, you are now in the minority, according to the results of an online poll released Friday. About 80 percent of online Americans surveyed in the recent poll by market research...

Worldwide IT spending to grow 4 percent in 2003; Study shows Linux, outsourcing, wireless sales will be strong.(according to Aberdeen)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
January 3, 2003... Byline: David Legard WORLDWIDE IT SPENDING will grow four percent in 2003, rebounding from growth of just one percent in 2002, according to research released Thursday by market analysis company Aberdeen Group. This level of growth will...

HP releases media-friendly Pavilions; Company makes 3 new systems available via Web.(HP Pavilion 734n, HP Pavilion 514n and HP Pavilion 504n)
January 3, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) MADE three new Pavilion desktops for media-savvy consumers available on its HPshopping.com Web site Friday. The new PCs are designed for music and photo storage and swapping, and a high-end model is...

Hy-Tek plans widescreen PC; Company says system will be all-in-one entertainment PC.(Hy-Tek Tek Panel 300)
January 3, 2003... Byline: James Niccolai U.S. ELECTRONICS MAKER Hy-Tek Manufacturing will use next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch what it claims is the first wide-screen, all-in-one entertainment PC, which packs a DVD player, CD...

Consumer groups intervene in Microsoft settlement; Consumers for Computing Choice, Open Platform Working Group weigh in.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts TWO GROUPS REPRESENTING consumers and software developers want to intervene in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft in the hope of toughening terms of the settlement approved by a federal judge in...

Goldman Sachs says IT spending to drop in 2003; In contrast to other firms, survey predicts 1 percent reduction.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit ANALYST FIRMS ARE rarely pessimistic, but The Goldman Sachs Group released a report Thursday predicting a 1 percent drop in IT spending in 2003, contrasting with other more optimistic predictions from technology analyst...

Salesnet adds new features to CRM software; ASP upgrades offering with reporting, dashboard.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley HOSTED CRM (CUSTOMER relationship management) service Salesnet is adding new reporting functions and a "dashboard" to its software in a bid to entice customers to upgrade to its pricier and more robust Extended...

Lindows head funding Xbox hacking project; Microsoft rival behind effort to make Linux run on Xbox.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt THE DONOR FOR a hacking project aimed at bringing the open source Linux operating system (OS) to Microsoft's Xbox gaming console was revealed this week to be Lindows.com founder and CEO Michael Robertson. ...

Circus-DTE programming language coming to town; Xerox announcing technology for document transformations.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill XEROX ON TUESDAY will herald the availability of an experimental programming language intended to make it easy to transform documents and data between specific formats, enabling documents to be read regardless of what...

High-tech groups hoping for IT depreciation incentive; Companies could boost write-off.
January 6, 2003... Byline: PATRICK THIBODEAU, Computerworld WASHINGTON -- HIGH-TECH trade groups are hopeful that President Bush's economic stimulus package, due Tuesday, will include an expanded depreciation bonus that could encourage IT managers to make...

Microsoft pitches CDMA software at U.S. market; Hitachi, Samsung will offer devices using the software.
January 6, 2003... Byline: James Niccolai MICROSOFT ON MONDAY will announce that it has developed versions of its SmartPhone and Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition software for the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) networks used widely in North America, and...

Macworld: First ERP for X Server unveiled; PowerEasy bundle may move Apple into mid-market.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz POWEREASY, AN ENTERPRISE software provider, will announce on Monday at Macworld Expo in San Francisco the first ERP application for Apple's X Server platform. The application, which will be offered as a bundled...

UPDATE - Sony, Toshiba to use next-gen Rambus interfaces; Technology allows for much faster data rates.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit TWO ADVANCED INTERFACE technologies from Rambus will appear in future products from Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Toshiba, the companies announced Monday. "This is a strong endorsement of our latest...

FCC reviewing phone service competition rules; Agency seen as unlikely to recommend completely dumping regulations.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts THE U.S. FEDERAL Communications Commission (FCC) is unlikely to recommend doing away entirely with current rules designed to create competition in the local phone service market when it reviews the rules over the next...

Transmeta releases embedded Crusoe processors; Energy-efficient design alleviates need for cooling fan.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit TRANSMETA RELEASED SIX new processors for embedded systems such as point-of-sale terminals and industrial automation devices Monday, focusing on an energy-efficient design that alleviates the need for a cooling fan...

Adobe to offer Photoshop to consumers; Company to take wraps off Photoshop Album at CES.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: John Blau WITH AN EYE on the rising popularity of digital cameras, Adobe Systems has decided to extend its Photoshop software to the consumer market. Photoshop Album, a product designed to help digital camera owners easily...

HuneTec to rival BlackBerry; Small company licenses Palm OS.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: Joris Evers HUNETEC, A SMALL South Korean company, has licensed the Palm OS operating system for use in messaging devices that will work on a wireless network used primarily by pagers, PalmSource said Monday. The personal...

Microsoft, DOJ oppose group intervention; Microsoft claims groups fall short of requirements.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Justice (DOJ) and Microsoft Monday filed their opposition to an attempt by trade groups to intervene in the government's antitrust case against the software juggernaut, claiming that the groups...

Controlling stake in Key3Media sold; Comdex organizer is in default on loan.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: Martyn Williams KEY3MEDIA GROUP, THE organizer of the Comdex trade show, failed to make a scheduled interest payment on a bank loan and then defaulted on the loan in late December, according to a filing the company made with the...

Metromedia considers bankruptcy; Telco also considering restructuring alternatives.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: John Blau METROMEDIA INTERNATIONAL, A provider of telecommunication, Internet and cable TV services in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, China and other emerging markets, may file for bankruptcy if the company fails to find...

MSN Messenger outage affects millions; Cause of worldwide service interruption unknown.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore MICROSOFT'S MSN MESSENGER service went down Monday, leaving most of the instant messaging software's 75 million worldwide users without access to the service for more than five hours. According to a Microsoft...

Microsoft submits settlement offer in Taiwan; Decision expected later this week.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: Sumner Lemon TAIPEI -- HOPING to bring an end to a government investigation into its business practices here, Microsoft officials Monday were preparing to submit additional details of a proposed settlement offer to Taiwan's Fair...

Network Associates bags Deersoft; Security vendor acquires antispam maker.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts NETWORK ASSOCIATES (NAI) started 2003 by putting spam between the crosshairs. On Monday the company announced the acquisition of Deersoft, a maker of antispam software, for an undisclosed sum. Deersoft, of San...

Polywell selling two-way Opteron rack server; But details disappear from company's Web site.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit POLYWELL COMPUTERS POSTED details of a rack server with dual Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on its Web site Monday, although the clock speed of the new chips and the price of the server are still...

PeopleSoft bolsters HR; Company ships new modules and apps.(including PeopleSoft ePerformance, PeopleSoftHelpDesk for Human Resources and PeopleSoft Mobile Time Management,)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley PEOPLESOFT RANG IN the new year by releasing an array of promised employee-management applications, including a number of new modules in its Human Resources Management (HRMS) suite. Now available are PeopleSoft...

Hitachi announces new drives; Joint Hitachi, IBM company touts four HDD products.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Joris Evers HITACHI ANNOUNCED FOUR new hard disk drive (HDD) products on Monday and formally launched Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a new company comprising Hitachi's and IBM's HDD operations. Hitachi agreed to acquire...

Microsoft issues second Exchange beta; Final version of Exchange 2003 due midyear.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Matt Berger MICROSOFT ON MONDAY released another test version of an upgrade to its Exchange messaging and information management server software, as it prepares to enhance access to e-mail by mobile users. The software,...

VeriSign creates registrar subsidiary; Company divides domain name registration, infrastructure businesses.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt VERISIGN HAS SEPARATED its domain registrar services from its infrastructure offerings, pooling them under the Network Solutions brand and relaunching them with a host of new marketing deals and retooled packages....

Macworld: Macromedia touts Java server for Mac OS X; Company also backs BEA with ColdFusion.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Boosting Java development for Apple users, Macromedia at the Macworld Conference & Expo here on Tuesday is announcing availability of JRun 4 for Mac OS X, a J2EE-compatible application server. The...

Microsoft updates Windows Media Player; Announcement includes revised licensing terms.(Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0 Series and Microsoft Movie Maker 2.0 for Windows XP)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Sumner Lemon MICROSOFT WILL RELEASE updated versions of its Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker software over the next two days as part of an announcement that includes revised licensing terms for its Windows Media Audio 9...

OASIS ponders PKI security for Web services; Technical committee formed.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill OASIS (ORGANIZATION FOR the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) Tuesday announced that it has formed a technical committee to advance PKI (public key infrastructure) adoption for Web services and other...

PrismTech acquires CORBA technology.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2003... Byline: InfoWorld.com staff PRISMTECH ON TUESDAY announced its acquisition of Vertel's CORBA business unit, including the eORB embedded, real-time object request broker. The eORB technology becomes part of the PrismTech OpenFusion family...

Palm OS 6 to feature better wireless integration; PalmSource drops hints about new features.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Martyn Williams DEVICES BASED ON PalmSource's fifth-generation operating system have only just started emerging but the company is already dropping hints about what users can expect in Palm OS 6. One of the areas where...

SGI releases Linux supercomputer with Itanium processor; Altix 3000 machines can scale up to 64 processors.(SGI Altix 3300 and SGI Altix 3700)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit SILICON GRAPHICS INC.'S (SGI's) new Altix 3000 machines are penguins on steroids, combining the Linux operating system with Intel's Itanium 2 processor into a server that can scale up to 64 processors. The Altix...

Philips, General Atomic to work on UWB chips; Aim to produce chip sets 40 times faster than 802.11b networks.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Stephen Lawson A JOINT EFFORT announced Monday between Koninklijke Philips Electronics and research and development company General Atomics is aimed at producing chip sets for wireless network equipment that runs more than 40 times...

Critics worry about privacy in cybersecurity plan; Proposals are still vague.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Grant Gross WASHINGTON -- AMID published reports that a pared-down Bush administration cybersecurity policy is circulating, critics of a previous draft of the "National Plan to Secure Cyberspace" are still worried about what's in...

'DVD Jon' acquitted in Norway cracking case; Court says Johansen entitled to access data on DVD he purchased.(Jon Lech Johansen)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Gillian Law and Scarlet Pruitt JON LECH JOHANSEN, also known as DVD Jon, has been acquitted by a Norwegian court of charges over his development and distribution of DeCSS, a program that can be used to break the digital...

Gateway lowers Q4 revenue projection; Company reports widening losses on slow sales.(2002)(Brief Article)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Agam Shah SAN FRANCISCO -- PC vendor Gateway Inc. Tuesday revised its estimate of its fourth-quarter financial results, citing soft demand. Under the revised guidance, Gateway predicted it will see revenue of US$1.06 billion and a...

IBM to resell Cisco storage switches; Big Blue to offer products by end of this quarter.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Scott Tyler Shafer CISCO SYSTEMS AND IBM today announced that the latter would begin reselling Cisco's storage director and switch by the end of the first quarter 2003. The resell agreement is non-exclusive and is the first...

ICANN raises concerns over VeriSign IDN change; At issue is whether VeriSign is using technology contrary to DNS standards.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Laura Rohde THE INTERNET CORPORATION for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Tuesday expressed concerns regarding a service launched last Friday by VeriSign designed to handle internationalized domain names (IDNs). According...

Microsoft rolls out ISA Server Feature Pack 1; Microsoft Exchange and IIS security enhanced.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Brian Fonseca TARGETING MUCH IMPROVED application protection, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the availability of Feature Pack 1 for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000. Downloadable from the Web, the...

Macworld: Even Woz still uses Mac OS 9; Now more than 5 million OS X users.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Matt Berger SAN FRANCISCO -- The division between Macintosh users running Apple Computer Inc.'s new and old operating systems came under the microscope here at the Macworld Conference and Expo here as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak...

Macworld: Jobs shows off Apple browser, notebooks; CEO demos app to compete with PowerPoint, DVD-burning software.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Matt Berger SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Computer chief executive officer Steve Jobs introduced the company's own Web browser, called "Safari," Tuesday during his keynote address at the Macworld trade show here, and showed off a dizzying...

Post-holiday notebook parade continues from Toshiba, HP; Buyers opt for portability.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit BOSTON -- BARGAIN-SHOPPERS will find deals on new notebooks released this week from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Toshiba Corp., building on the continued strength of notebook sales at the expense of desktops. ...

LCD monitor, TV shipments grew in 2002; Systems grow to record high.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
January 7, 2003... Byline: Kuriko Miyake DESPITE CONTINUED WEAKNESS in the electronics industry worldwide, LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor shipments grew to a record high and demand for LCD TVs surged last year, according to market analyst...

Liberty Alliance foreshadows products, services; Web services group identifies 22 new members.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts WHILE LACKING SPECIFICS, a poll of Liberty Alliance Project member organizations indicates that 2003 will see the emergence of new technology that applies identity management and user authentication standards developed...

Liberty Alliance: 2003 brings products, services; Identity management, authentication lead the list.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts BOSTON -- WHILE lacking specifics, a poll of Liberty Alliance Project member organizations indicates that 2003 will see the emergence of new technology that applies identity management and user authentication standards...

Macworld: Microsoft gets cozier with Mac OS X; Microsoft shows off Office, e-mail, MSN for Mac.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Matt Berger SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft is taking more aggressive steps to promote its desktop office productivity software to users of Apple's Mac OS X. The company announced here Tuesday at the Macworld Conference and Expo...

Sanmina-SCI will build IBM eServer, IntelliStation; Part of Big Blue's move to a services company.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit BOSTON -- CONTINUING its metamorphosis from a manufacturing company to a services organization, IBM Corp. announced that Sanmina-SCI Corp. will manufacture a portion of IBM's servers and workstations in a deal worth...

Microsoft "Smart Displays" begin shipping; Technology uses 802.11b standards.
January 7, 2003... Byline: James Niccolai SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp.'s plan to let people access their PCs from wireless "Smart Displays" located about the home draws closer to reality this week. After a slight delay, ViewSonic Corp. on Wednesday will...

Apple ramps up wireless in notebooks; Use of G technology considered risky.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple not only introduced an industry first notebook with a 17-inch display, it also became the first major company to deploy as yet unapproved technology for Wi-Fi access. Although the...

Intel brands wireless architecture as 'Centrino'; Range of wireless technologies to debut in first half of year.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Peter Sayer INTEL HAS CHOSEN Centrino, the Italian word for a lace table centerpiece or doily, as the brand name for its forthcoming wireless computing technology, it announced Wednesday. The Centrino brand is an umbrella name...

Cisco takes aim at new competitors; CEO Chambers cites challengers such as Dell.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Stephen Lawson CISCO SYSTEMS TUESDAY signaled its readiness to take on new rivals, such as Dell Computer, that are moving into Cisco's traditional network equipment markets. In what seemed a shift from the tone of Cisco's...

CES: Linux heading for cell phones; NEC is among the companies interested.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Martyn Williams THE LINUX OPERATING system has made the jump from computer servers to handheld computers, digital video recorders, and wristwatches and soon may find a home inside your cellular telephone. NEC said Wednesday it...

Macworld: Web services enhanced for Mac developers; Tools abound at show.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- 4D rolled out at the Macworld Conference & Expo this week a version of its 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS environment that features enhancements for Web services. Metrowerks, meanwhile, announced that it is...

OASIS seeks URI scheme that accommodates XML, Web services; Vendor support is unclear.(Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill OASIS (ORGANIZATION FOR the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Wednesday announced an effort to find an XML-based Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for distributed directory services and data...

Salesforce.com, AvantGo team on mobile offering; Pact to enable Salesforce users to download data to handhelds.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley CRM (CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP management) application service vendor Salesforce.com is teaming with mobile software developer AvantGo on a new add-on allowing Salesforce.com customers to download application data to their...

US high-tech trade missions head for China; Part of effort to promote U.S. business interests in country.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Sumner Lemon U.S. DEPARTMENT OF Commerce (DOC) officials will lead two delegations of executives from U.S. telecommunications and microelectronics companies to China in the coming months as part of an effort to promote U.S....

Bill would allow copying of music, movies; Measure would allow for personal copies of files.(Digital Media Consumer Rights Acts)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Grant Gross WASHINGTON -- IF "DVD Jon" Lech Johansen, creator of the DeCSS DVD descrambling program, had been tried in a U.S. court instead of in Norway, he may have been found in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act....

AMD, IBM team for chip-making technology; Pact could help AMD compete with Intel.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit IBM AND ADVANCED Micro Devices (AMD) will work on future chip-making technologies together, under an agreement that could help AMD compete against archrival Intel's manufacturing expertise. The two companies will...

Content management startup bets on open standards; Alchemy EX delivers Web services, J2EE, ColdFusion support.(Alchemy EX)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore DESIGNED WITH SIMPLIFIED enterprise integration in mind, newcomer Montara Software this week broke into the content management scene with a Web-based CM system that is built from the ground up to embrace open...

CES: MontaVista to launch consumer electronics Linux; Embedded OS to be used in portable devices, telematics apps.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Martyn Williams MONTAVISTA SOFTWARE WILL release during the current quarter a version of its embedded Linux operating system aimed at use in consumer electronics devices including televisions, portable devices and automobile...

Motorola unveils flashy new mobile phones; Cameras, bigger screens, enhanced messaging are highlighted.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Agam Shah SAN FRANCISCO -- Telecommunication equipment maker Motorola on Wednesday announced eight new mobile phones with advanced features designed to appeal to several different kinds of consumers. The new models were...

Survey says more workers turn to Web for info; Employees spend more time reading news online than in newspapers.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt ONLINE NEWS SITES could be the survivors of the dot-com downturn, a survey released Wednesday suggests, as adult workers are reportedly racking up more time reading news and information online than they are consuming...

BMC releases final Patrol 7 components; Centralized consoles manage resources.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley NEW YORK -- BMC Software this week released the last components of its Patrol 7 systems management infrastructure, delivering two new centralized consoles for managing resources such as applications, databases and...

CES: Palm OS-based PDA unveiled with built-in GPS; Device can provide turn-by-turn directions.(Garmin International )
January 8, 2003... Byline: James Niccolai LAS VEGAS -- Navigation system company Garmin International on Wednesday launched the first Palm OS-based PDA (personal digital assistant) with a built-in global positioning system (GPS), which can provide...

SAP reorganizes US sales force; Company lays off 132 employees.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley THREE MONTHS AFTER taking over as head of SAP's U.S. operations, SAP America CEO Bill McDermott is revamping the company's sales force, a change that prompted layoffs of 132 employees this week. Previously...

Trend Micro goes with Postini for spam; Company adds antispam wares to lineup.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts ANTIVIRUS COMPANY TREND Micro is adding spam protection to its security offerings, licensing an antispam engine from Postini for use by its corporate customers. The engine, which performs heuristic analyses of spam...