Compaq Announces Notebook PC Below US$1,200
Compaq Computer Corp. announced today a new notebook computer priced at US$1,099.
Compaq Computer Corp. announced today a new notebook computer priced at US$1,099.
Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) has extended its offer to acquire Sterling Software Inc. until midnight EST, Monday, March 27 because the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested additional information and documents as part of its regulatory review of the proposed deal.
European Union member states should develop a cohesive approach to ease the way for e-commerce, removing obstacles for businesses and encouraging use of the Internet through reform measures, according to suggestions made today during a discussion in preparation for the European Council summit in Lisbon next week. U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok heard from various Internet "dot-com" business executives during the 45-minute meeting at Downing Street, which was broadcast over the Web.
A new claim to the largest software merger in history was made today -- this time in the hot business-to-business (B2B) market -- with the announcement that i2 Technologies Inc. is buying Aspect Development Inc. in a US$9.3 billion stock swap.
Representatives from some 30 vendors have formed the Embedded Linux Consortium, known as ELC, to promote Linux-based embedded applications, the group announced today.
As expected, Intel Corp. today announced that its 1GHz Pentium III is available -- two days after rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said that it is shipping its 1GHz Athlon processor.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is acquiring Innosoft International Inc., which makes Internet standards-based messaging and directory products.
Motorola's Computer Group in May will begin to ship High Availability Linux, which it calls HA Linux, as a new embedded computing platform for telecommunications providers.
A plan to allow anyone worldwide with an e-mail address to vote for members of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) runs counter to the democratic process, could be subject to fraud or "capture" by special interests and is generally fraught with problems, according to a three-month study of the proposal.
Triton Network Systems Inc. is buying IBM Corp.'s broadband modem product line for 5.5 million shares of Triton stock.
That no one owns the Internet is taken as a truism. But the infrastructure on which the global network runs is owned by a handful of powerful corporations that can, and often do, use their control over the Internet backbone to their advantage in business negotiations. The influence these companies exert, some industry insiders fear, is strangling smaller companies and reducing customer choice.
Lucent Technologies is spinning off its PBX, Systimax structured cabling and data business based on LANs (local area networks) to shareholders, creating a separate company aimed at the corporate networking market, executives said yesterday at a press conference.
IBM is expected today to announce that it has obtained approved from the US government to sell business computers with 256-bit digital key decryption globally.
Cisco Systems Inc. is acquiring privately held Atlantech Technologies, which makes software aimed at helping configure and monitor network hardware, in a stock deal valued at about US$180 million.
Lucent Technologies Inc. is spinning off its PBX, Systimax structured cabling and data business based on LANs (local area networks) to shareholders, creating a separate company aimed at the corporate networking market, executives said today at a press conference.