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Windows Loses Another Customer to Sun’s JDS
Microsoft is losing another customer to an alternative desktop operating system, with Allied Irish Bank, one of Ireland’s largest banking and financial services groups, set to transition its branch-dependent applications and migrate about 7,500 desktop users off Windows and onto the Sun Java Desktop System over the next year or so. Sun Microsystems Inc., of…
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Microsoft Takes Aim at ‘Nonprofessional’ Programmers
On Tuesday, Microsoft officially took the wraps off a new line of low-priced tools aimed at nonprofessional programmers. The first betas of both the full Visual Studio tool suite and the so-called “Express” versions of Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J# and SQL Server (as well as a new product, Visual WebDev Express)…
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Adaptec Picks Up RAID Tech from IBM
Adaptec said Tuesday that it has acquired RAID technology from IBM in return for a guaranteed supply agreement. According to a statement released late Tuesday by Milpitas, Calif.-based Adaptec Inc., the deal involves both products and intellectual property currently used by IBM inside its server line. A spokeswoman for Adaptec said the deal involves the…
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Call Center Speech Platform Gives Voice to More Data
TuVox has launched an updated version of its call center speech platform that can voice-enable information retrieved from databases and Web services. TuVox CVR 4.0, announced Monday, expands a technology the company calls “SmartGen” to build speech dialogs, prompts and grammars in order to navigate data from SQL databases and Web services, said Steve Pollock,…
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eMachines Announces Budget PCs
Gateway’s eMachines division launched a trio of new machines on Monday, all geared at a budget-minded audience. eMachines launched the T2824, the T2958, and the T3092, all priced at less than $600. All three machines are designed for consumers wishing to purchase a cheaper alternative than higher-priced, more powerful PCs, such as a computer for…
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Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using
OK, I confess it: I’ve used Internet Explorer a lot. After being a die-hard Netscape user, I finally got fed up with the sheer bulk of that browser and started using Internet Explorer on my Windows machines. As time went on and open-source Mozilla matured, I started using Mozilla as my main Linux Web browser…
