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  • Cisco Adds Video to the ‘V’ in VOIP

    Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday added video to the “V” in VOIP when it launched Call Manager 4.0 along with a new desktop video conferencing application integrated with Cisco IP phones. The next major release of Cisco’s mainstay voice-over-IP communications software includes an optional new application and USB (universal serial bus) video camera, together dubbed the…

  • IBM Forms Information Integration Leadership Board

    IBM has assembled a dozen of its top customers from a variety of vertical industry arenas to form the IBM Information Integration Leadership Board, a group that will work closely in tandem with IBM to define and solve emerging data integration issues plaguing customer IT environments. The new board will meet regularly throughout the year…

  • Lindows Changes Name in Several Countries

    When a Netherlands court ordered a preliminary injunction against desktop Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. and its resellers “to cease and desist from the infringement of … the WINDOWS trademark … by using the signs “Lindows”, “Lindows.com” and/or “LindowsOS,” it seems Lindows would have to close up shop in the Netherlands and other European countries, which…

  • Microsoft Releases Virtual Server Beta

    Microsoft Corp. has released the first beta for its Virtual Server 2004 to a select group of customers and expects the product to be generally available in the first half of this year. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., in February acquired the Virtual Machine assets of Connectix Corp., a privately held company in San Mateo, Calif.,…

  • Agilysys Acquires Inter-American Data, Inc.

    Cleveland, OH–Enterprise solutions provider Agilysys, Inc., has acquired “substantially all of the assets” of Inter-American Data, Inc., (IAD) for $36.5 million in cash, the company announced today. IAD provides software and services, designed to run on IBM platforms, to hotel casinos and major resorts in the United States. “The acquisition of IAD is an excellent…

  • Intel Exec Runs Down New Itanium Roadmap

    SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. on Wednesday presented a broad overview of its enterprise processor roadmap here at the Intel Developer Forum. The company’s forthcoming lineup featured a slew of new code names for the 64-bit Itanium processor. Mike Fister, vice president and general manager of Intel’s enterprise group appeared made a special effort to detail Intel’s…

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