August 2002

August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Gus roll-out highlights GPRS potential

Great Universal Stores' home shopping division is planning to use GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) technology throughout its... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Former WorldCom officials face fraud charges

Two of WorldCom's top financial managers are expected to be charged by federal prosecutors for their roles in the company's... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
HP says it passed on PwC acquisition two weeks ago

PwC approached Hewlett-Packard only two weeks ago, with an offer to open the negotiations at a similar valuation to the figure... Continue Reading

August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Novell plans intelligent Web services directory

Novell has produced a roadmap for its next generation of directory services. It outlines a number of releases aimed at creating... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Enterasys Networks revises revenue expectations

Networking company Enterasys Networks is to revise its revenue estimates for its financial first quarter, which ended 30 March. Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Network Associates extends McAfee.com offer

McAfee.com shareholders have heeded management's recommendation and overwhelmingly rejected security software developer Network... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
AOL Time Warner confirms accounting probe

The US Department of Justice has begun investigating AOL Time Warner's accounting practices, the company confirmed Wednesday,... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Sun beefs up mid-range storage offerings

Sun Microsystems has increased the capacity and improved the performance of disk drives used in its mid-range storage systems. Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
RIM slaps a third suit on Good Technology

For the third time in two months, Research In Motion has filed a lawsuit against Good Technology, this time alleging unfair... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Intel increases market share at AMD's expense

Intel's share of PC processor shipments increased by two percentage points in the second quarter of 2002 over rival Advanced... Continue Reading

August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Service Pack 3 released for Windows 2000

Microsoft has made available a number of fixes for Windows 2000 including updates to bring the company into compliance with parts... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
MPs give political e-lobbying thumbs down

E-campaigning, when voter or protest groups embark on mass e-mail campaigns to their Members of Parliament (MPs), has been... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Toshiba ups hard disk access speed

Toshiba has boosted the rotational speed of its latest high-capacity hard disk drive (HDD) to 5,400 revolutions per minute,... Continue Reading
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
SAP teams up with Ford and Caterpillar

Ford and Caterpillar have chosen e-business solution provider SAP to develop a supply-chain management system for spare parts... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Microsoft: Why we need Software Assurance

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer explains why he saw a need for the company's radical change in software licensing and... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Thought for the day:Business travel's going nowhere

Online conference expert Mireia Fontbernat puts the case for staying home.Business travel is archaic, expensive and ineffective.... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Security for free: Don't trust everything in e-mail

E-mail security has several threads, as there is a wide range of vulnerabilities. We have all heard about the Love Bug, BadTrans,... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Acting to build online bridges

Children from the UK and the US are learning together through a Web theatre project, writes Karl Cushing Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Simulations save Texaco £2m

Texaco has saved millions of pounds by using IT-generated disaster simulations to model changes to plant operations and improve... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
IT staff on a high

Antony Adshead reports from this year's Vanco Three Peaks Challenge Continue Reading

AI's carbon footprint will be an issue for enterprises

Touted as the tech that will help us combat global warming, training AI models requires a shocking amount of energy. The issue ...

Enterprises need to plan for deepfake technology

Politicians and Hollywood stars aren't the only ones at risk: Enterprises need to understand the dangers deepfakes pose to their ...

What do the Google, Salesforce analytics deals mean for CIOs?

Google and Salesforce's recent multibillion-dollar BI deals have put analytics in the spotlight. What's the import for CIOs -- ...

SearchSecurity

Stellar Cyber launches Starlight 3.1 for AI threat detection

Stellar Cyber, a security analytics vendor, launched Starlight 3.1 as its first unified security analytics platform, using AI and...

Why user identity management is a security essential

Who's on your network and accessing your data? IT security teams must be able to answer these questions. A strong identity ...

What identity governance tools can do for your organization

Learn how to evaluate available security tools that manage the governance of your users' identity and access to company systems ...

SearchNetworking

What networking analysts are saying about Cisco's future

Has Cisco outgrown networking? One industry insider seems to think so. Plus, other analysts size up Cisco's future around ...

What is edge computing, and how can you get started?

Edge computing is forcing IT teams to rethink legacy architectures. In this guide, explore what edge computing is, its pros and ...

ARM upgrades network visibility tool cARMa and adds Guru

ARM Data Center Software upgraded its SaaS network inventory tool cARMa to include more network visibility capabilities, ...

SearchDataCenter

Drill down to basics with these server hardware terms

Even with software-based data center options, it's still important to know the physical components of a server. Check out these ...

How to cultivate the ideal IaaS agreement

As you expand your infrastructure, you might use service providers for certain components. Make sure you get a comprehensive SLA ...

China's supercomputing systems soar from 21 to 219 in a decade

The U.S. dominates in total supercomputing performance, but lags behind China in the overall number of supercomputers. U.S. x86 ...

SearchDataManagement

Building leaner, meaner BI data sources

As business intelligence analysis and reporting platforms become increasingly important in the enterprise, so does the data that ...

A comparison of open source, real-time data streaming platforms

With so many real-time data streaming tools, how do you know which is right for your organization? Experts compare Spark ...

Data virtualization tools promote anywhere, anytime data access

This online handbook examines data virtualization software and how organizations are deploying and using the technology as part ...