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Google Launches New Message Security Services
'Organizations of all shapes and sizes can get access to Google's industry leading security and compliance technologies,? said Scott Petry, Google's director of product management, as Google this week announced a series of security products Powered by Postini that...
Dell Finds 'Evidence of Financial Misconduct'
Dell won't be getting its 10-K out any time soon. It's gonna blow through April 3, the day the 10-K is due, and April 18, the extension date. It's gonna add the annual report for the year ended February 2 to the pile of paperwork it already owes the SEC, It says it...
Carly Headhunter Charged with Drug-related Homicide
Jeff Christian, the guy who started Christian & Timbers and the headhunter who got Carly Fiorina the CEO job at HP, is going to be tried for reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of another executive recruiter, 31-year-old Thoma...
Intel To Copy Some More of AMD's Moves
There are times when it looks like AMD is running Intel's design department. This is definitely one of them. Intel disclosed Wednesday that it'll be following AMD down the path of squeezing its previously separate memory controller onto the processor die. Integr...
Does That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Moto Extend to Dell?
Remember Ron Garriques, the guy that Michael Dell hired a month ago to run his new consumer unit, the guy who used to run Motorola's mobile devices business? Well, Wednesday Motorola up and reorganized, warning of unexpected Q1 losses and complaining about the unp...
AMD's Pyrrhic Victory
AMD may be teetering on the brink of financial disaster but if it does go down for the count it can comfort itself with the knowledge that it made it to eight-largest semiconductor house in the world last year, up from 15th on the back of a 91.6% increase in reven...
Start-up Claims It's Got the World's Only Secure OS
Secure64, which as you might expect is best friends with Intel and HP - but not to the point either of them has put money in the joint - claims that it's got the first and only DNS server software that's immune to rootkits and malware and resistant to denial of se...
Bring Me the Head of Sam Palmisano: Cramer
CNBC's inimitable Jim Cramer told his investor following last night to stay away from IBM until they heard that IBM CEO Sam Palmisano was gone. Since taking over the company five years ago, Palmisano has returned 1% to stockholders, Cramer said, 'you might as well ...
EMC To Monetize VMware
EMC is going to IPO 10% of VMware this summer. It'll give VMware a recruiting and retention incentive and money that's not EMC's to grow on. It's also supposed to increase the visibility into VMware's performance and signal that the company is committed to its op...
Emergent OnLine Awarded $1.5 Million Virtualization Solution
Emergent OnLine, an IT Solutions Provider and one of the most trusted IT integrators in the Washington metropolitan area, announced that it received a $1.5 Million award to modernize the desktop computing infrastructure of a US Department of Defense agency, transf...
Wyse Announces First Thin Computing Reference Platform for Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, today announced the availability of the first in a series of Thin Computing Reference Platforms designed for major industry players looking to incorporate thin-computing technology into their product portfoli...
VMworld Confidential: DataCore iSCSI SAN Software and VMware Virtualization Make Virtual Infrastructures Practical for Everyone
Today at VMworld, DataCore Software is showcasing the versatility of its SANmelody(TM) SAN software, which supports both Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI connectivity. SANmelody software, with its auto fail-over, enterprise-level iSCSI capabilities and state-of-the-...
EMC Rainfinity Extends File Virtualization Leadership with New Enterprise Archiving Support for Content Addressed Storage
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today announced version 7.0 of the Rainfinity(R) Global File Virtualization(TM) solution, extending EMC's market-leading capabilities in file virtualization and management to support enterp...
Beam Me Up, Scotty, There's a Teraflop Monster Here!
Well, if it can make it x86-compatible, get somebody to write a workable operating system for it, teach the world a new way of parallel computing-style programming, and produce it in volume, Intel is going to have itself a general-purpose 'Teraflops' chip in a few...
It Works!! It Works!!!
Start-up semiconductor house P.A. Semi Inc. has confounded the doubters and naysayers who claimed it could never develop a freaking complicated 2GHz Power chip - with every feature currently known to man - that typically consumes just 5W-13W - or worse case 25W with...
Intel & IBM Claim To Have Hit on a Modern Day Philosopher's Stone
Intel has figured out a way to make its 45nm chips more threatening to AMD - at least this year and adding to its current momentum - while at the same time reinforcing Moore's Law, which says transistor counts double every two years. It claims it's made one of the...
Dell Dumps Rollins
Michael Dell has come back to clean up the mess left by CEO Kevin Rollins, whose immediate resignation was accepted late Wednesday after the market closed. Rollins is gone from the Dell board as well as its executive suite. His departure has been widely expected, ...
Microsoft Seeks Patent on Build-It-Yourself 'Lego' Operating System
Imagine a completely deconstructed operating system that the user, or service provider, glues together out of just the pieces he needs and pays for it à la carte. Okay, now imagine Microsoft - which has repeatedly told antitrust authorities the world over for years...
Apple Chief Grilled
Federal prosecutors and SEC lawyers interviewed Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week about Apple's backdating practices. Nobody's talking about what transpired but doubtless the ground they covered included how an options award that went to him happened to be explained ...
Sun To Use Intel Chips
In a move akin to the Peace of Westphalia that brought an end to that nasty little European episode known as the Thirty Years War, Sun and Intel this week formally ceased hostilities. Laying religious differences aside like the Protestants and Catholics in 1648, S...
IBM Hit with Mega-Buck Antitrust Tying Charges
Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI), the mainframe wannabe whose Itanium-based servers can run IBM's z/OS mainframe operating system as well as Windows, Unix and Linux, has sued IBM for antitrust, charging Big Blue with, among other things, tying the sale of z/OS to the...
Good Lord, Sun Returns a Profit!
On a roll after its détente with Intel, Sun Tuesday came in with respectable numbers for a change and announced that - for some illusive reason - Guernsey-based KKR Private Equity Investors LP had put $700 million in the company in the form of convertible notes. S...
HP Operative Pleads Guilty
One of HP's low-level operatives, Bryan Wagner, 'a/k/a mike@yahoo.com,' apparently HP's chief pretexter, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. It could mean seven years in the calaboose and a fine of $500,000. His plea...
Microsoft Discovers E-Commerce
With only 12 day left to go before the Great Vista Rollout to consumers on January 30 and missing no trick, Microsoft said late Wednesday that it would break with its tradition of boxed or pre-loaded software and supply the thing online. It's come up with three w...
Intel Feels the Pinch Too
Cutting AMD off at the knees in Q4 left Intel limping a bit too. Sequentially Intel did great - revenues up 11%, hitting the top of its projections, income up 15%, operating income up 8% - enough for CFO Andy Bryant to characterize Intel's performance as a 'strong...
Dell Eats More of HP's Dust
For the second time in a row HP beat out Dell in moving PCs worldwide, this time increasing its lead, according to both Gartner and IDC. Gartner reckons HP shipments in Q4 grew 24% in Q4, giving it 17.4% of the world market, and it figures Dell's sales dropped 8.7...
Dell To Carve Up its Main Business Unit
Joe Marengi, the 51-year-old general manager of Dell's commercial business group, which includes servers, storage and PC and accounts for 85% of the company's revenues, will be leaving at the end of March, retiring they say, and then Dell is going split the unit ...
Intel Won't Buck Discovery Decision in AMD Antitrust Case
Intel has decided not to contest the special master's decision handing AMD certain discovery rights in its US antitrust suit against Intel. The discovery relates to Intel's business dealings and sales transactions with customers in foreign countries. AMD is fishin...
Intel Releases First Mainstream Quad
Intel came out at the Consumer Electronics Show with its first mainstream quad chip, a part branded a Core 2 Quad for the occasion and made immediately available. There are also two other new quads, giving Intel a total of nine versions of the widget for the deskt...
Backdating Watch
Comverse Technology's former general counsel William Sorin is going to pay $3 million to settle a criminal SEC backdating-cum-stock manipulation suit. He will also be barred from ever again serving as a lawyer, officer or director of a public company and faces a ...
Feds Charge HP Operative
Federal authorities have moved against one of HP's operatives, charging Bryan Wagner, 'a/k/a mike@yahoo.com,' apparently HP's chief pretexter, with conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. It could mean seven years in the calaboose and a fine of $500,000. US Att...
Intel's Prices Hit AMD's Fourth Quarter
Late Thursday, very late in fact, AMD put out a statement saying that its Q4 revenues - excluding anything it might see out of its ATI acquisition - would only be up 3% from the $1.33 billion it reported in calendar Q3, a number, roughly $1.37 billion, that is lower...
NCR To Spin Off Teradata Later This Year
NCR said Monday that it's going to spin its Teradata data warehousing business off into a publicly traded company. When exactly depends on board authorization, an IRS ruling, SEC filings and the usual IPO preparations, but it won't be for another six-nine months. ...
Might "Prototype Hijacking" Subvert AJAX?
Does JavaScript, which was never intended to do anything resembling what it does within the approach now called AJAX, have a fundamental design flaw? That's the question being asked by Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon.
db4objects Releases Rev 6.0
db4objects Releases Rev 6.0 db4object has got a production-ready release of db4o 6.0 that it says is 10 times faster and 90% leaner on memory consumption than version 5. The new open source object database rev also supports a new server-side cursor technology for ...
Symantec, McAfee Get Draft Vista APIs
Microsoft Tuesday gave security vendors like Symantec and McAfee, who two months ago very publicly complained of being locked out of Vista because of Microsoft's new 'you-can't get-to-the-64-bit kernel' PatchGuard widgetry, draft APIs that are supposed to let them...
Panasonic Promises Better Battery
Matsushita Electric, also known as Panasonic, claims to have come up with a better rechargeable lithium-ion battery that unlike Sony's infamous lithium-ion batteries, which sparked the largest recall in computer history, won't start fires.
Opteron & Athlon64 'Aging': Wall Street
Opteron and the Athlon64 are 'aging' architectures according to Nollenberger Capital analyst Hans Mosesmann and Intel's Core 2 Duo eats its lunch in 95% of all PC applications. AMD is also, as everyone knows, late in moving to 65nm.
AMD Claims an Edge in Distant 45nm
AMD has only started making 65nm chips and Intel has already started making 45nm ones so AMD said that it and its buddy IBM would have 45nm parts in mid-'08 using newfangled ultra-low-K interconnect technology and immersion lithography, which should give AMD a p...
Hey, These IPO Things Actually Work
Somebody's gonna have a very merry Christmas - once they sober up. Clustered storage start-up Isilon Systems Inc went public last Friday nominally pricing its shares at $13 although the broad market never saw that price - it opened $25 ending up 78%. It has yet to...

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