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Intel’s New Centrino Aims to ‘Get Rid of Bottlenecks’
Intel on Wednesday will announce a significant evolutionary update to its successful Centrino mobile computing platform. The new platform, currently code-named “Sonoma,” will provide a wealth of new features to home and corporate users, including a faster front-side bus, which moves to 533 MHz; support for Serial ATA; high-definition audio; improved graphics acceleration; faster memory…
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Veritas Bundles Storage Backup and Management for SMBs
NEW YORK—To help small and midsize business customers boost the speed and central administration of distributed storage backups and enable self-assisting disk-based data protection, Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Backup Exec 10.0 for Windows Servers software and its newly bundled Veritas Backup Exec Suite. The Veritas Backup Exec software suite offers integration between the…
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Microsoft Reverses Plan, Will Patch Media Player
Microsoft will patch its Windows Media Player after all. One week after saying it had no plans to change the way WMP (Windows Media Player) handles the download of DRM licenses, Microsoft now says it will release an update in the next 30 days to help thwart the threat of spyware infection. The about-face comes…
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CA’s New Channel Push Taps Enterprise Partners
Victor Dellovo, president of Modcomp‘s systems and solutions division, counts his company among the few enterprise partners that have prospered with CA (Computer Associates International). Over the years, CA’s attempts to create an enterprise channel have conflicted with the company’s direct sales force. But Dellovo says Modcomp’s engineering strength has been the key to establishing…
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HP, Sun Pump Up the High End
Enterprises that rely on high-end systems for their mission-critical tasks will see some significant performance improvements in upcoming servers from Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Both companies will drive the gains through new chip designs and surrounding technologies. HP will implement Intel Corp.’s Itanium 2 64-bit chip, and Sun will tout its dual-core UltraSPARC…
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Jinx-Free Technology
Who would have thought that we information technologists are a superstitious lot? You’d expect that those whose field is based on precise procedural logic to be hardheaded realists. In IT, we routinely measure things to several places to the right of the decimal point. When something doesn’t work, we do traces and study event logs…
