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Four Ways to Make Virtual Teams Work
Virtual teams—divided by distance but connected by electronic means of communication and a need to work in a coordinated way—often break down because of poor communication. That’s not surprising, considering that global teams are often composed of people who don’t share the same first language. Karen Sobel Lojeski, the program director for the business and…
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SCO OpenServer 6 Pushes Unix Line Forward
After years in the making, SCO OpenServer 6 has finally been released. OpenServer 6 is the first major upgrade to SCO’s flagship Unix operating system since its parent companies, Caldera and Santa Cruz Operations, merged in 2000. From an analyst’s viewpoint, Dan Kusnetzky, IDC’s vice president of System Software, said, “As the flag-bearer of the…
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Shuttle ST20G5 Socket 939 XPC
Shuttle, the company that pioneered the small, cube-shaped small-form-factor for the PC, offers two main families of products: The G series and the P series. The P series chasses are the big brothers, relatively speaking, offering slightly more internal room (though no extra expansion slots). P series members, such as Shuttle’s SN25P, bring smart styling…
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New 10 Gigabit Ethernet Products Bring HPC to the Enterprise
Vendors are expanding on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet offerings available to customers. Myricom Inc. and startup Level 5 Networks Inc. on Monday are both introducing new offerings designed to bring the high-speed interconnect into the data center and high-performance computing environments. In addition, Neterion Inc., which makes 10GbE adapters, earlier this month unveiled a channel…
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Analysts: Dual-Core PowerPC G5s Due for Apple
Power Macs and PowerBooks could gain new power plants in the near future, analysts say. IBM’s chip group has been mum on details relating to its PowerPC processor line of late, but analysts expect it to deliver a dual-core PowerPC 970 and possibly a single-core sibling with less of a power appetite. Apple Computer Inc.,…
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“Video Over IP” Plugin Developed For Skype
Skype users can now download a free plug-in from Dialcom that will enable video conferencing using the Skype P2P engine, reports Faultline, in an article posted on The Register. The Spontania Video4skype, allows any users with a webcam connected to their PCs and a Skype account and broadband internet access, to make video-calls using the…
