Chips to boost wireless device performance New processors from Texas Instruments (TI) promise to increase the performance of cell phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) applications while allowing manufacturers to build devices that are smaller and that consume less power…

Company eyes XML Web services startup Swingtide on Monday unveiled the first two products in what will become its suite of software for making Web services work together. The Portsmouth, N.H.-based company took the wraps off of QoB (Quality of…

Battle promises to be tough Overwhelmed and annoyed, e-mail users worldwide are uniting to stamp out the increased flow of spam targeting inboxes and inundating computer networks with dubious business offers, miracle drug claims and increasingly naughty and offensive propositions.…

New architecture offers more capacity for lower price EMC released the Symmetrix DMX series Monday, a high-end storage system based on a new architecture that improves bandwidth and enables customers to purchase servers customized for their environments, EMC said in…

Majority of infected machines hit within 10 minutes A just-completed study into the Slammer worm that hit the Internet a week ago has concluded what many people already suspected: Slammer represented a significant milestone in the evolution of worms and…

Companies continue to aggregate data sources BI (business intelligence) vendors this week will unleash a raft of new and upgraded products with a focus on aggregating multiple data sources to enhance insight into corporate information. Although all of the companies…

Existing barriers between business and personal data are fading Somewhere between customer necessity and a point of inevitability, the distribution of pervasive services is leading to a convergence of the once isolated realms of personal and business data. Vendors are…

Two editions of app server targeted at departmental use  BEA Systems on Tuesday will pursue departmental developers with a price reduction on its WebLogic Express application server, intended for basic Web site development, and the launch of WebLogic Server, Workgroup…

Software allows multiple OSes on same box  VMware on Monday plans to announce general availability of GSX Server 2.5, the latest release of the company’s virtual machine software for running multiple operating systems concurrently on the same piece of hardware.…

Multiple tools available within IDE  Data Junction on Monday is announcing availability of Integration Architect and enhanced Integration Engines, with the goal of offering a single data integration platform for projects of all sizes. The company’s product lineup will enable…