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IBM Moves into ASPs & Cisco Finds a DDoS Partner
IBM Taps ASP Pioneer IBM Corp. seeks to bring on board one of the pioneers of the application service provider space. The company recently announced an agreement to acquire Corio Inc. for $182 million in cash. Corio, launched in 1998, was among the first wave of ASPs. It weathered the tech meltdown and now hosts…
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Sun Stakes Future on Grid Computing
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Sun Microsystems Inc. senior executives hope to put Sun in a dominant position as a low-cost grid computing system provider before IBM or Dell Inc. are tempted to engage in a price war for a comparable set of services. Sun’s objective, the senior executives said, is to provide grid computing power to corporations,…
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OCZ Moves Up DDR-2 Ladder With Boutique Modules
Boutique memory firm OCZ Technology has shifted its Enhanced Bandwidth technology higher up the DDR-2 stepladder. OCZ’s new PC2-5400 DDR-2 modules will be available in a matched pair of modules totaling 1 gigabyte and 2 gigabytes, respectively. The first modules, PC2-5400 EB, will run at speeds of up to 667-MHz using CL 4-2-2-8 timings. Although…
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HP Targets Mobile Workers with New Notebooks, iPaqs
Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday launched a series of products, services and partnerships aimed at the mobile workforce. The announcements ranged from new hardware to various plans to improve wireless networking. “No other company spans the breadth of mobility like HP,” said Ted Clark, senior vice president and general manager of Mobile Computing at HP in…
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Dell Rolls Out New Models, Upgrade Program
Dell rolled out several new notebooks, mobile workstations and services for business users on Tuesday. Dell Inc.’s new Latitude notebooks and Precision mobile workstations are built on Intel Corp.’s Sonoma architecture, which is the latest version of Intel’s Centrino chip set, featuring a 533MHz front-side bus as well as a PCI Express bus architecture. Unlike…
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Google Targets Internet Domains
Google Inc. is continuing to expand its Internet aspiration, this time by adding the title “domain-name registrar” to its list of roles. Google on Friday officially became a registrar after completing a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit body that oversees the Domain Name System, ICANN officials confirmed. ICANN’s…
