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Friday, April 16 Sun Acquires Kealia, Marks Return of First Employee SANTA CLARA, CA — Sun Microsystems completed the acquisition of Kealia, a Palo Alto, Calif. company established to develop advanced computer system design. Kealia was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim, who was a co-founder of Sun and its vice president of technology from […]

Sun Microsystems’s new president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz, formerly the company’s software chief, said Thursday that he would consolidate Sun’s microprocessors, enterprise systems and SPARC-based volume systems initiatives. The announcement was the latest in a series of sweeping changes announced since Sun’s pre-earning report April 2 in which the company signaled its third-quarter […]

Intel Corp. on Tuesday launched a pair of new Itanium processors geared at reducing the total cost of ownership of Itanium-based servers. The additions flesh out Intel’s Itanium processor line, filling in niches in its product portfolio. Intel launched new two-way-capable Itaniums at 1.4-GHz and 1.6-GHz, each with 3MB of level-3 cache. The 1.4-GHz chip […]

Friday, April 9 Astoria Harnesses Internet To Automate Content Review and Updates SAN MATEO, CA — Astoria Software, a document management software developer, has released Astoria 4.1, an application for enterprises seeking to automate the authoring, review and publishing processes of complex documents. The product extends enterprise content collaboration beyond core technical writers to content […]

On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its “shared source” umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly […]

Thursday, April 1 Hostway Joins Elite Group to Offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux CHICAGO– Hostway Corp., a provider of Web hosting and other managed services, became one of the first Web-hosting companies to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux to its Linux dedicated server customers. Among the benefits customers will enjoy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]

Alcatel and Intel today said they would team up to develop WiMAX solutions, which are expected to come to market in 2005. WiMAX, also known as the IEEE 802.16 standard, is expected to provide data rates of about 70 Mbits per second over a range of about 20 to 30 miles, with lower data rates […]

Friday, March 26 POWAY, CA, and IRVINE, CA, — Computer maker Gateway, Inc.’s (www.gateway.com) board approved a new senior management team, following completion of its acquisition of eMachines Inc. Gateway founder Ted Waitt will serve as chairman and Wayne Inouye will serve as president and chief executive officer. Thirteen senior vice presidents will report to […]

AT&T this week introduced two new services to help enterprise customers thwart attacks. The first service, dubbed AT&T Internet Protect, informs customers about potential threats before they become full-blown attacks. Under the Internet Protect service, AT&T will alert businesses through a secure Web portal to potential threats within minutes of identifying critical malicious activity. The […]

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Tuesday called for a national debate on RFID technology and the privacy issues related to its use. In an address at the Georgetown University Law Center, Leahy said that Congress might need to take action if members find significant privacy protection concerns arising from the swift emergence of RFID […]

For years, the India Institutes of Technology (IIT) fed the executive ranks of US technology vendors, integrators, and consultancies with its graduates. However, the Institutes–modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–had been established to benefit India’s future. Now, a business incubator established by IIT Bombay is working to check the brain drain by fostering a […]

Netsmart Signs $550,000 California Contracts with Sycamores of PasadenaGREAT RIVER, NY — Netsmart Technologies Inc. (www.netsmartech.com), a supplier of software for health and human services providers through its Creative Socio-Medics Corp. subsidiary, announced $550,000 in contracts with The Sycamores of Pasadena. The contracts include software licenses, professional services, and first-year maintenance agreements to install Creative’s […]