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Suppliers, Competitors Balk at Wal-Mart’s RFID Lead
Many companies have queued up quickly behind retail giant’s Wal-Mart’s RFID mandate. But others now look much less willing to toe the line. Certainly the impact of RFID will be large, industry watchers predict, however, the technology will hardly hit all at once, despite the best plans of Wal-Mart. Since Wal-Mart Stores Inc. issued its…
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Florida Town Rises from Hurricane Wreckage with VOIP Triple-Play
Homestead, Fla., made news on Aug. 24, 1992, as the community hardest hit by Hurricane Andrew. Just south of Miami, its residents certainly hope to stay out of the spotlight this week, as Frances hits. Some IP infrastructure players, however, would like to direct our attention precisely there, because this city of 32,000 directed a…
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HP Launches Suit Alleging Gray-Market Sales
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Thursday that it has filed suit in a Tennessee federal court to recover more than $8.6 million in pricing discounts for computer equipment it says was purchased under false pretenses by Capital City Micro Inc. of Murfreesboro, Tenn., for resale to Hopkinsville, Ky.-based P&E Distributing Co. In this gray-market case, Hewlett-Packard‘s complaint…
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IBM Debuts Low-End Storage Controllers
IBM has launched a pair of low-end storage controllers and is pulling its disk-based storage products underneath its TotalStorage umbrella to offer customers a more scalable and cost-friendly disk-based storage product line. The TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 controllers, released late this week, kick-start IBM’s new Disk System product line. The DS300, an entry-level disk server…
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Intel to Redefine Performance at IDF
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s famous law will be re-examined again next week, as Intel shifts away from pure speed to the more efficient utilization of silicon. Moore’s Law, which generally states that the number of transistors will double every twelve to eighteen months, has been used as a rationale to explain the perpetual increases in…
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More Longhorn Fallout; More Technologies Delayed
By cutting the Windows File System (WinFS) feature out of both Longhorn client and server, Microsoft Corp. didn’t affect only its next-generation Windows release. It also has set back technologies designed to be dependent on WinFS. One of the most prominent of these technologies is the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). The Microsoft Business Framework is…
