InfoWorld.com articles from May 2002

InfoWorld.com archives from May 2002

Windows .Net servers hold their own against Unix; .Net servers running mission-critical apps compare favorably in Accenture benchmark.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Ed Scannell MICROSOFT'S ONGOING CRUSADE to establish a firm foothold in the enterprise got a little more traction recently from a benchmark test conducted by Accenture that show Windows .Net servers compared favorably with...

BackWeb pushes proactive portals; ProactivePortal 2.0 offers offline access, alerts.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Moore AIMING TO MAKE corporate portals more effective, BackWeb Technologies this week rolled out an updated version of its technology designed to provide offline access to portal content. Version 2.0 of its...

BEA, RIM bring Web services to BlackBerry device; Will use BEA's WebLogic framework to develop, deploy mobile apps and Web services.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Laura Rohde BLACKBERRY MAKER RESEARCH in Motion (RIM) and BEA Systems are working on a development tool to help programmers create software and Web services for BlackBerry wireless devices, the companies announced Wednesday. ...

Panel calls for chip standards; Power, ubiquity, software to drive processor evolution.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Software and standards are critical to the development of microprocessors as they become more pervasive and powerful, panelists said at a roundtable session here at the Embedded Processor Forum on...

EPIC unveils Web services plan; Consumer packaged goods industry eyed.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Heather Harreld EPIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY on Tuesday unveiled support for Web services for the consumer packaged goods industry that leverages the e-commerce standards of the Uniform Code Council. EPIC's Global Pavilion for...

Grand Central, Lante partner on Web services; Companies to focus on vertical applications.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill and Brian Fonseca LANTE AND GRAND Central Communications will provide vertically oriented Web services applications via Grand Central's Web Services Network, the companies announced on Wednesday. "Grand Central and...

HP pulls plug on worldwide developer show; Tough economy dooms event.
May 1, 2002... Byline: James Niccolai HEWLETT-PACKARD HAS PULLED the plug on its worldwide developer conference scheduled to take place in Las Vegas at the end of this month. The company decided to postpone its Invent 2002 conference after it began...

HP/Compaq: Vote tally is official; HP set to close deal; Launch of merged company set for May 7.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance HEWLETT-PACKARD ANNOUNCED THE official shareholder vote totals Wednesday for its acquisition of Compaq, reaching one of the final milestones in the troubled deal and clearing the way for the merged company to...

IBM, BackWeb execs offer keys to unlocking portal ROI; Driving priority users to site deemed critical at conference.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Moore SAN FRANCISCO -- Driving your organization's priority users to the portal is one of the most important ingredients in a successful portal deployment, according to a keynote address given here at the DCI Corporate and...

Legislators introduce another RBOC-friendly broadband bill; DSL would be on same footing as broadband.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Michael Martin, Network World Fusion SENATORS SEEKING TO put regional Bell operating company DSL services on the same regulatory footing as cable services introduced a bill on Tuesday. Called the Breaux-Nickles Bill after its...

Storage Performance Council rolls out benchmark; IBM, LSI Logic, Sun backing effort, but not EMC.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel THE SPC (STORAGE Performance Council) on Wednesday rolled out some of the first vendor results from its SPC Benchmark 1 (SPC-1), a newly defined metric for determining the performance of storage sub-systems. SPC-1...

Key Sun Linux executive departs as drain continues; DeWitt joins exodus.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance ONE OF THE key executives driving Sun Microsystems's nascent Linux strategy left the company last week, adding to a long list of top employees who have recently decided to depart from Sun. Stephen DeWitt, vice...

Sun's Zander quits post; President is latest in long line to leave.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt SUN MICROSYSTEMS WEDNESDAY announced that Ed Zander, president and chief operating officer, will retire from full-time duties with the company, effective July 1, right after the end of the company's fiscal year. ...

Wireless LAN providers team to offer roaming; Pass-One association established to set minimum service standards.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers SEVERAL WIRELESS LAN (WLAN) service providers and hardware vendors have established an industry association to facilitate WLAN roaming. The association, called Pass-One, plans to set minimum service standards and...

Google to be search engine for all AOL brands; Google to be in AOL, CompuServe, Netscape.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Laura Rohde GOOGLE AND AMERICA Online have agreed to begin offering Google's search engine over all of AOL's Internet companies, the companies announced Wednesday. By the end of the second quarter or during the third quarter,...

Cisco buys Hammerhead, Navarro; Company to bolster IP networking, Ethernet lines.
May 1, 2002... Byline: George A. Chidi Jr. CISCO SYSTEMS PULLED the trigger on two acquisition targets Wednesday. Cisco agreed to buy network software startup Hammerhead Networks for stock worth up to $173 million, and circuit design firm Navarro...

Dell and AMD may align for 64-bit chips; Michael Dell said Dell is 'very interested' in AMD chips.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell Computer is inching closer to bringing Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on as a second chip supplier after the introduction of the company's 64-bit chips for PCs next year, the top executives from...

Kazaa use rockets as Morpheus dives; Study said size of Kazaa's network grew 70 percent in last two months.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt THE SIZE OF Kazaa's peer-to-peer file sharing network ballooned by nearly 70 percent over the last two months, while rival file-swapping system Morpheus, which has recently undergone a platform change, has...

Mozilla hole allows remote text viewing; Hole similar to one found in IE earlier this year.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello A SECURITY HOLE in the Netscape Communications Navigator and Mozilla Web browsers could allow an attacker to view documents on a user's PC, according to a security advisory released Tuesday by Israeli security group...

Judge skeptical about licensing evidence; States suing Microsoft claim company forced OEMs into unfair licenses.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Cara Garretson WASHINGTON -- THE states suing Microsoft may not be able to use evidence that they say shows that Microsoft is forcing PC vendors into unfair Windows licensing terms, during the company's remedy trial currently under...

Sun offers free version of StarOffice; OpenOffice 1.0 available for download.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Tom Krazit A FREE VERSION of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice business productivity suite is now available for download from OpenOffice.org, an open-source developer community sponsored by Sun. OpenOffice.org 1.0 provides users...

Response Networks targets service-level management; Tool tracks SLAs; provides VPN and VOIP monitoring.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Brian Fonseca RESPONSE NETWORKS THIS week announced the availability of Pulsar xSP 1.5, its new service-level management tool designed to spot potential SLA (service-level agreement) violations and monitor all SLA activity by...

SAP wins ban on German Siebel ads; SAP charged that Siebel copied phrase 'runs SAP' in 'runs Siebel' ads.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers THE BATTLE FOR the CRM (customer relationship management) customer has moved to the courtroom. SAP AG won a ban on a German advertising campaign by rival Siebel Systems and is contemplating legal action in the U.K. ...

Vigilance tailors SCM tools; Company ships three packaged versions of event management suite.
May 1, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley SUPPLY-CHAIN SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Vigilance is releasing Wednesday three packaged versions of its event-management software, intended to offer customers tools that can be implemented rapidly. Vigilance's flagship...

Compaq targets IBM with new Xeon-based servers; First hot-swappable memory arrives from Compaq.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel COMPAQ ON THURSDAY introduced its first Intel-based server with hot-swappable memory, a 4-way ProLiant DL580. The company also released a new 2-way ProLiant ML530 and issued upgrades to two other Intel-based systems. ...

Adobe wins patent trial against Macromedia; Jury awards $2.8 million.
May 2, 2002... Byline: James Niccolai A JURY IN Delaware has determined that Macromedia infringed on technology patents held by Adobe Systems and has awarded Adobe $2.8 million in damages, the companies announced Thursday. Adobe sued Macromedia in...

Capellas says HP will do more with less; Compaq CEO says merger savings more than he expected.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - A confident Michael Capellas, chairman and chief executive officer of Compaq Computer, said Thursday that his company's merger with Hewlett-Packard could receive an unexpected financial boost as...

Microsoft reaches out to Java developers; JDBC connector links apps to SQL Server 2000 databases.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill MICROSOFT THIS WEEK released a JDBC driver enabling Java developers to utilize Microsoft's SQL Sever 2000 database as a data management system for Java applications. The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC...

ProActivity launches new business process analysis platform; ProActivity 4.0 offers new XML export capabilities to support Web services.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Heather Harreld PROACTIVITY WILL ANNOUNCE general availability of its new business process analysis platform next week featuring new XML export capabilities to support Web services and the integration of data into business process...

Sun readies UDDI offering; Web services registry to get boost.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill SUN MICROSYSTEMS IS preparing within a few months to launch a server-based product for setting up UDDI registries for publishing Web services, according to Sun officials. UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and...

Tibco rolls out new integration platform; ActiveExchange 3.0's support of XML digital signatures, ebXML enhances b-to-b trading.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Heather Harreld TIBCO ON MONDAY will announce its new business integration software product line designed to secure Web services transactions while easing integration challenges associated with linking partners to enterprise...

American University to roll out wireless; Campus-wide wireless system will offer students, faculty and employees access to data.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Juan Carlos Perez AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN Washington, D.C., will roll out a campus-wide wireless system designed to give students, faculty and employees wireless access to university data. The system is designed to improve voice...

California court ponders Net case; Opponents say case opens door for all to be subjected to local jurisdictions.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt AFTER THREE YEARS of legal volleys, a case that could potentially set precedent for lawsuits from individual states and countries over global Internet content is currently being considered by the California Supreme...

IBM bolsters eLiza; Big Blue adds workload, identity mapping to self-healing server initiative.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM ON THURSDAY marked the one-year anniversary of its Project eLiza, an initiative to stitch self-managing, self-healing capabilities into its servers, by taking the wraps off several new technologies that make servers...

Gartner: Attacks exploit security indifference; 90 percent of attacks target holes for which patches are available.
May 2, 2002... Byline: David Legard THE VAST MAJORITY of successful attacks on computer systems exploit security weaknesses which are well known and for which patches exist, according to research company Gartner. Many recent cyberattacks could have...

Bush official delivers wake-up call to IT industry; IT must become involved in public policy, government official says.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Michael Vizard SALT LAKE CITY -- A senior official in the U.S. Department of Commerce called upon the IT industry to significantly raise its game when it comes to influencing public policy in order to avert having its interests...

Recruiters endorse HR-XML proposal; Spec to ease information exchange for staffing industry.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Gillian Law THE SIX SPONSORS of the HR-XML (Human Resource Extensible Markup Language) Consortium have endorsed a specification it developed for information exchange between recruitment organizations and their customers, the...

IBM welds OLAP, data mining; New version of DB2 OLAP Server combines hybrid analysis with data mining.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Tom Sullivan CONTINUING THE TREND of packing more business intelligence functionality into the database, IBM on Thursday announced it has released DB2 OLAP Server 8.1. The new software pulls together what Armonk N.Y.-based IBM...

Microsoft's witness dubious of 'unbound' Windows; Technical expert says unbound Windows "probably impossible".
May 2, 2002... Byline: Cara Garretson and Marc Ferranti WASHINGTON - IT is "probably impossible" for Microsoft to provide an 'unbound' version of Windows, as the states suing Microsoft would require under their proposed remedies, a professor at the...

Micron gives up on Hynix; Negotiations are off.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Martyn Williams MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC. is walking away from further negotiations with Hynix Semiconductor after a deal between the two collapsed earlier this week. "After careful evaluation, we are unable to discern a process...

ISS and NAI join forces; Companies to integrate a number of products, research.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello RESPONDING TO THE growing security threat of blended attacks like the Nimda and Code Red worms, Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Network Associates Thursday said that they will integrate a number of their products...

Palm names new hardware exec; Appointment foreshadows split into hardware and technology licensing units.
May 2, 2002... Byline: George A. Chidi Jr. PALM NAMED A president for its hardware division Thursday, foreshadowing the breakup of the PDA (personal digital assistant) company into a hardware company and a technology licensing company. Palm's board...

Philips making 'paintable' LCDs; Photo-enforced stratification could make displays cheaper, thinner, lighter.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers LCDS (LIQUID CRYSTAL displays) could become cheaper, thinner, lighter and more flexible with a paint-on LCD-making technology being developed by researchers at Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV. Researchers at the...

Solaris hole found; Attackers can execute arbitrary code on OS.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Laura Rohde HACKERS CAN POTENTIALLY exploit a format string vulnerability in remote wall requests in order to execute arbitrary code in Solaris, Sun Microsystems version of the Unix operating system, security experts have warned....

Utah to create Web services ecosystem; State to build trade mission to attract companies that build Web services wares.
May 2, 2002... Byline: Michael Vizard SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt said his administration plans to create an economic ecosystem around Web services technologies as part of a broad effort to attract more investment capital to the...

Capellas says HP will do more with less; Says size will increase competitiveness.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance SAN FRANCISCO -- A confident Michael Capellas, chairman and chief executive officer of Compaq, said Thursday that his company's merger with Hewlett-Packard could receive an unexpected financial boost as the combined...

Carriers tout wireless application services; Cingular, Sprint chase enterprise approval with wireless application delivery.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz ATTEMPTING TO GAIN favor with enterprises that are demanding wireless access to enterprise applications, Cingular Wireless, Sprint, and AvantGo are on the verge of rolling out server-side technologies. Designed...

IBM readies entry-level app server; WebSphere platform to be filled out.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Ed Scannell SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM next week at its developerWorks Live conference will roll out an entry-level version of its WebSphere application server tailored to primarily run EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) and Java servlets. ...

HP/Compaq: With deal closed, countdown to new HP begins; Product roadmaps anticipated.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley WITH THE LEGAL closing Friday of its Compaq acquisition, and a turbulent nine months behind it, Hewlett-Packard is at last poised to commence merged operations. Compaq's run on the New York Stock Exchange as an...

Kournikova virus writer appeals sentence; 21-year-old Dutchman claims actions were not malicious.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers JAN DE WIT, the 21-year-old Dutchman who was sentenced last September to 150 hours of community service for creating and sending out the Anna Kournikova e-mail worm, is appealing the verdict, his lawyer said Friday. ...

Microsoft sketches Windows management road map; Management Summit keynote explores services view.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Moore LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft on Friday laid out its long-term vision for Windows management, offering a glimpse into two research projects and its view of the future systems management in a Web services world. In a...

It's in the mail; CEO Greg Olson tells how Sendmail can manage content, rein in costs associated with e-mail.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Michael Vizard SENDMAIL IS THE venerable technology that moves the majority of electronic mail across the Internet. But the cryptic nature of Sendmail has limited its use to the backbone network while Microsoft Exchange and Lotus...

Senator confident antispam bill will reach Senate; Proposal called necessary to boost e-commerce.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt SENATOR CONRAD BURNS expressed confidence this week that his proposed antispam legislation would pass an upcoming Commerce Committee vote and reach the U.S. Senate floor, bringing it one step closer to becoming the...

Iona adds government arm; New unit looks to bring integration wares to government.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Heather Harreld IONA WILL ANNOUNCE a new government subsidiary Monday to boost its marketing power for integration projects such as homeland defense that typically require cross-agency collaboration. The new Reston, Va.-based...

Security hole found in Flash; Flaw enables attacker to run code on vulnerable systems.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello A SECURITY HOLE in the way Macromedia's Flash player handles ActiveX content could allow an attacker to run the code of their choice on vulnerable systems, according to a security advisory published by eEye Digital...

PwC Consulting IPO set for August; IT consulting spin off is reaction to Enron debacle.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Juan Carlos Perez PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS WILL SPIN off its management and IT consulting unit via an initial public offering (IPO) in August, the latest planned move by a Big Five accounting firm to shed consulting services that...

Via buys CDMA center from LSI; Via gets into CDMA chip game, targets Qualcomm.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Sumner Lemon VIA TECHNOLOGIES INC. plans to acquire a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) chip design center from LSI Logic Corp. The announcement brings to a close a nearly five-month long search for a buyer as LSI Logic has...

Interview: Network Appliance maps a distributed future; CEO Dan Warmenhoven and VP Ray Villeneuve discuss the future of networked storage.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Michael Vizard, Steve Gillmor, and Mark Jones AS THE DEMAND for delivering data across distributed network architectures increases, it's driving a new generation of storage technologies. Network Appliance's CEO Dan Warmenhoven and...

Handspring CFO to quit; Bern Whitney to remain with company until July 1.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Sumner Lemon HANDSPRING'S CHIEF FINANCIAL officer (CFO), Bern Whitney, will resign from the company due to personal reasons, the company said Thursday. Whitney has been with Handspring since its earliest days and helped lead...

IBM turns face to Sun; Proposal leaves WS-I ball in Microsoft's court.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Ed Scannell and Tom Sullivan IBM'S APPARENT ABOUT-FACE over a proposal to add two more seats to the WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization) board has left Microsoft exposed as the only entity opposed to Sun's inclusion....

IT woes slow global economy; WTO predicts moderate recovery of no more than 1 percent.
May 3, 2002... Byline: Laura Rohde THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC decline in 2001 was mainly due to the slump in the IT industry, which will continue to retard any sort of recovery in 2002, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in its latest economic report. ...

N+I: Cisco expands intrusion-detection lineup; Network-borne security threats are focus of rollout.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson LAS VEGAS -- Aiming to address the flood of network-borne threats to security from both inside and outside enterprises, Cisco Systems on Monday expanded its lineup of IDS (intrusion detection system) hardware and...

DevWorks: IBM rolls three developer shows into one; Conference to be held this week.
May 6, 2002... Byline: James Niccolai IBM KICKS OFF its annual developer conference in San Francisco this week where it will emphasize new products and technologies that should help improve the level of integration among its broad software catalog. ...

Hitachi to battle EMC plan with True North; Storage management initiative was expected, experts say.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel TAKING A LESSON from EMC's AutoIS enterprise storage management strategy, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) on Tuesday will unveil its own enterprise storage management initiative, called True North, at the NetWorld+Interop 2002...

Microsoft witness defends media player integration; States seek separation from operating system.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld WASHINGTON -- IN the ongoing Microsoft remedy trial, attention Monday focused on rival media players and whether those applications are facing a fate similar to Netscape Communications 's Navigator...

Volera uncorks Web services networking; Scalability, reliability, and security targeted.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Moore CONTENT DELIVERY VENDOR Volera later this year plans to harness its enterprise CDN (content delivery network) technology to speed and secure the delivery of Web services. Building on top of its Velocity CDN...

AOL Instant Messenger hole could run code; Attackers could run code on user's system.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello A NEW SECURITY vulnerability in America Online's Instant Messenger (AIM) program could allow an attacker to run a program on a user's computer. AOL has fixed the vulnerability on its servers, however, so users...

Dell unveils lightweight Latitude; Latitude X200 four-fifths of an inch thick.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt PERHAPS WORKING ON the maxim that one can never be too rich or too thin, Dell Computer unveiled its lightest, slimmest Latitude laptop yet Monday, offering a rich array of options for users on the go. The...

3-D monitors display potential; Deep Video Imaging seeks OEM partners.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Mark Jones DEPTH: IT'S THE great untapped dimension that monitor technology has been missing. Now an emerging New Zealand-based company has its eyes set on becoming to monitors what "Dolby" is to sound technology. Deep Video...

EarthLink president steps down; CEO Garry Betty to assume president role.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt EARTHLIN'S PRESIDENT AND board member Mike McQuary announced Monday that he is resigning for personal reasons, but said that he will still help the Internet service provider on special projects. EarthLink chief...

Countdown to new HP begins; Tuesday is merged company's 'Day 1'.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley WITH THE LEGAL closing Friday of its Compaq acquisition, and a turbulent nine months behind it, Hewlett-Packard is at last poised to commence merged operations. Compaq's run on the New York Stock Exchange as an...

Second-quarter revenue looks flat, Intel CEO says; Barrett says no uptick until corporate profits increase.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Sumner Lemon TAIPEI -- THE PC industry is not going to see a sequential increase in revenue during the current quarter, as corporate spending on IT infrastructure remains weak, according to Intel's chief executive officer Craig...

Jobs unleashes Jaguar, new applications; Mac OS X previewed.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Apple Computer's always animated developers received a treat Monday with a sneak peek at the next release of the company's Mac OS X operating system, new software tools and news that a rack-mount...

N+I: LAN gear rolls out in changing industry; HP, Dell, 3Com show off wares.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ENTERPRISE NETWORK ENGINEERS on the prowl for new LAN gear in today's slack market won't find a flood of new products at Networld+Interop this week in Las Vegas, but some vendors will unveil faster and smarter...

Jobs unleashes Jaguar; OS X release features new e-mail, IM, handwriting recognition apps.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Apple Computer's always animated developers received a treat Monday with a sneak peek at the next release of the company's Mac OS X operating system, new software tools and news that a rack-mount...

N+I: McAfee upgrades WebShield; New software allows network traffic to be scanned via security appliances.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello MCAFEE SECURITY, A division of Network Associates, made a pair of announcements at the Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas Monday detailing an upgrade to the software that powers the company's WebShield line of...

3D monitors display potential; Deep Video Imaging seeks partners.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Mark Jones IT'S THE GREAT untapped dimension monitor technology has been missing: depth. Now, an emerging New Zealand-born company has its eyes set on becoming to monitors what "Dolby" is to sound technology. Deep Video...

Nimda, Code Red still alive; Study details continued infections.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello BOSTON - WHEN computer security historians look back at 2001, the emergence of the Nimda and Code Red worms will likely sit close to the top of their significant events lists. Both worms were heralded as threats that...

IBM, OpenWave announce alliance; Companies to link OpenWave mobile browser with IBM e-business platform.
May 6, 2002... Byline: George A. Chidi Jr. IBM AND OPENWAVE Systems struck a deal to sell wireless hardware and software for wireless service providers, the companies announced Monday. The 10-year alliance between the Redwood City, Calif.-based...

Intel powers up three new chips; 2.53GHz chip puts Intel on home stretch to 3GHz.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel INTEL ON MONDAY rolled out three of the company's fastest Pentium 4 desktop processors to date. Pentium 4 chips running at clock speeds of 2.53GHz, 2.40GHz, and 2.26GHz were introduced, according to...

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Red Hat releases 7.3; New version adds recent KDE, Gnome, Mozilla.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley RED HAT INC. released the latest version of its Linux software Monday, adding the newest version of the KDE (K Desktop Environment) graphical desktop interface and the ability to configure a personal firewall at...

N+I: Security attempts to steal the show; Cisco, Intruvert Networks, Recourse Technologies to reveal intrusion-detection offerings.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Brian Fonseca UNDER FIRE FOR relentless network security breaches, IDS (intrusion detection system) vendors are readying new wares to boost speed and narrow anomaly-determination methods. At the Network+Interop conference in...

N+I: Sniffer adds PDAs, VoIP; New version enables network sniffing via wireless devices.
May 6, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello SNIFFER TECHNOLOGIES, A division of Network Associates, announced a new product designed to sniff wireless networks using a PDA (personal digital assistant), as well as upgrades to a pair of its products Monday at the...