Stories by Jack McCarthy

Intel to acquire Dialogic for $US780 million

In a move designed to expand the variety of products Intel will offer in the booming networking and telecommunications market, the company announced yesterday that it will buy Dialogic.

Sun offers Y2K compliance warranty

Sun Microsystems has announced it will honour a broad warranty that will cover problems caused by the year 2000 issue on the majority of its products, a move designed to reassure the company's customers that there should be few difficulties in the transition to the next millennium.

Microsoft, HP, others form Java consortium

Tired of waiting for Sun Microsystems to develop standardised real-time extensions for its popular Java programming language, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and others have formally organised to do the job.

Microsoft to give money, research for Internet2

Microsoft announced on Wednesday it will contribute money and research to the Internet2 project, while IBM awarded $US1.9 million in research grants to three universities as part of its continuing participation in the development of the next generation Internet.

Traditions apply to e-commerce, panel says

The burgeoning growth of e-commerce is changing the nature of business operations, but some fundamentals, including customer service and efficiency, still apply, a panel of experts said at an e-commerce forum on Tuesday.

Intel rolls out home networking product line

Hoping to lead the way in an emerging market for home computing, Intel has announced a new product line to make it easier for families with more than one computer to share access to the Internet, printers, files and games.

IDC: Asia-Pacific passes Europe in info revolution

The United States remains the dominant information economy, but Asia-Pacific has passed Europe in the pace of developing information infrastructures, according to a recent survey conducted by market research firm International Data Corp.

CheckPoint provides secure, single sign-on

Check Point Software Technologies has announced network administration software that for the first time combines Internet protocol (IP) addresses with user identities.

DoJ says IE5 hurts Microsoft defence

The US Justice Department said on Friday that Microsoft's introduction of a new release of its Internet Explorer Web browser has weakened the company's defence in its antitrust trial.

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