Court rules for IBM in preliminary SCO hearing
Ruling means SCO has 30 days to give IBM more details about the alleged violations A judge ruled in favor of IBM Corp. in two motions argued in a Utah district court Friday in its ongoing legal dispute with The…
Sub-1-inch hard disk drives on the horizon
Toshiba to show sample drive at CES show in January The growing demand for low-cost, high-capacity, and compact storage for mobile devices is pushing development of small form-factor hard-disk drives and the first of a new generation of sub-1-inch (2.5…
NEC develops world’s smallest transistor
Reducing transistor size is crucial to increasing processor performance, memory capacity Engineers at NEC Corp. have developed the world’s smallest transistor with a gate length of 5 nanometers, the company said Monday. NEC will disclose the development at the Institute…
Top Via execs indicted for industrial espionage
Chairman and CEO accused of stealing technology from networking vendor D-Link TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taipei District Public Prosecutors Office has accused both the chairman and the chief executive officer of Via Technologies Inc., a leading vendor of PC chip…
Computer Associates set for Web services battle
Management product is ready to ship Computer Associates on Monday will face off against smaller companies in the Web services management field when it ships its Unicenter WSDM (Web Services Distributed Management) product. Although vendors such as Actional and Blue…
IBM refocuses software on specialized industries
Middleware packages to focus on insurance, banking IBM said this week that it will reorganize its software business, a move that will include shifting development efforts away from its five software brands and toward cross-brand application packages tailored for specialized…
Kontiki specializes delivery
DMS 3.0 provides efficient and secure video, audio, and file distribution over existing networks Video is one of the most effective ways to communicate with employees, partners, and customers. It’s convenient and efficient for viewers and carries an impact that…
A sorry excuse for a column
Nextel’s hard sell, L.A. goes PC You know that old saw “Love means never having to say you’re sorry”? Well, don’t believe it. Pammy just gave me her holiday wish list, and I’ll be saying “sorry” a lot in a…
Microsoft’s patchwork security blanket
Microsoft has had a lot of Windows patches, but is that really a bad thing? A few days ago, I was asked whether a particular fact being used by an InfoWorld writer was reasonable. The fact, according to the writer’s…
VCN offers virtual network of peers
IP Dynamics’ Secure VCN is a new way of looking at VPN connectivity Your choice of VPN needn’t be limited to mainstream IPSec or SSL solutions. One startup, IP Dynamics, provides a particularly interesting alternative. The company’s Secure VCN (Virtual…
