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
Cover for the latest telecoms crisis

Virtual networks could offer a useful risk-reduction strategy in the wake of recent provider bankruptcies. Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
ECDL exam achieves 95% satisfaction rate

A study of people taking the European computer driving licence (ECDL) end-user qualification shows that 80% take the exam for... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
DB2 gets a raft of new features

IBM has added self-management and self-tuning features to its DB2 database which should help users to reduce maintenance costs,... Continue Reading
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
E-mail in the dock

There is no substitute for properly managing your e-mail. The words it generates often have the same status in law as legal... 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
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

How to deal with the lack of chatbot standards

A lack of standards around chatbot development has created a situation in which enterprises are building and rebuilding bots. But...

RPA journey: Schneider Electric's global plan taps Blue Prism, UiPath

Schneider Electric, a multinational energy management company, has embarked on a robotic process automation journey, establishing...

Blurring the lines between RPA platforms and APIs

RPA is quickly making itself known in the automation market, but the real game changer is utilizing the technology in an API-rich...

SearchSecurity

Carbon Black acquisition bolsters VMware's security play

VMWare announced an agreement to acquire endpoint security vendor Carbon Black in an effort to boost its cloud security offerings...

Securing IoT involves developers, manufacturers and end users alike

Who's to blame for the IoT security problem: manufacturers creating devices, end user deploying them or governments not creating ...

DARPA unveils first SSITH prototype to mitigate hardware flaws

DARPA is still in the early prototype stages of its SSITH program, but the aim is to develop an open source chip able to block ...

SearchNetworking

What is data center networking, and how can you get started?

This feature explores the basics of data center networks, such as how to plan for data center consolidation, the effects of cloud...

Gartner Hype Cycle deems software-defined networking obsolete

A Gartner report on enterprise networking has declared the definition of SDN and its architectural approach as deceased. Cause of...

The top 5 capabilities your edge infrastructure should have

The network edge plays a vital role in the future of networking and digital transformation. Make sure your infrastructure has ...

SearchDataCenter

Iran says it's building an AI supercomputer, despite sanctions

In a tweet, Iran said it is building a new supercomputer. Other nations are doing the same because high performance computing ...

IBM Power chip instruction set now open source

IBM opened up its Power server Instruction Set Architecture allowing the open source community to develop more innovative ...

Big Switch updates its Cloud-First Networking portfolio

Big Switch Networks' new products and features aim to help solve issues such as lack of operational consistency, visibility and ...

SearchDataManagement

ArangoDB 3.5 update improves multi-model database platform

ArangoDB 3.5 accelerates its database platform with improved query performance and enhanced data security capabilities, as market...

GDPR, AI intensify privacy and data protection compliance demands

This guide covers the challenges data management teams face on data protection and privacy, particularly with the rise of GDPR ...

SnapLogic boosts its data integration technology with AI

SnapLogic's latest update for its Intelligent Integration Platform aims to make it easier for users to benefit from data ...