Bob Liu

NEW YORK — As consumers gain greater importance to the revival of the IT industry, IBM Corp. on Tuesday unleashed several new desktop models designed to follow up on its decision in May to rebrand the old NetVista line under the new ThinkCentre name — an extension of the “Think” strategy. The new models represent […]

NEW YORK — Xerox Corp. used the spotlight of the TechXNY show here to release an enhanced, Web-based document management software designed to help facilitate collaborative workflows for a customer’s sprawling user base. At a kickoff event dubbed “DigitalFocus” Monday night, Xerox officials demonstrated DocuShare 3.1 — Xerox’s new version of its document and content […]

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY — What does a symphony have to do with cancer research and world-class tennis? The truth is not much, but for IBM the three unrelated tangents serve to illustrate the three tenants of Armonk, NY, computing giant’s umbrella e-Business On-Demand strategy: virtualization, automation and integration. All throughout the 2003 U.S. Open here […]

priceline.com on Thursday announced expansions in two of its fastest-growing travel services. priceline.com’s hotel reservation service announced that it has added several new international destinations, including Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition, priceline.com’s packaged vacations service announced the addition of all-inclusive resorts and said that it has achieved a milestone of […]

On the heels of Dell’s decision last month to abandon the high-end server market, IBM on Tuesday plans to introduce a sales program designed to lure away existing Dell infrastructure customers and migrate them to IBM’s Intel Xeon-based eServer x440 systems, an 8-way processing system that is the top of Big Blue’s xSeries product line. […]

One of two leading forecasters of the PC market is ratcheting up its global industry outlook thanks in part to a stronger-than-expected surge in consumer activity in the U.S. and Europe during the second quarter. “The consumer is the main reason for the PC growth. Worldwide, the consumer is acting very strong,” said Kiyomi Yamada, […]

In an effort to stay atop the fast-changing market for electronic program listing, Gemstar-TV Guide International on Wednesday announced two big consumer electronics giants, Samsung Electronics and Sharp, as the latest licensees of its TV Guide On Screen interactive programming guide (IPG) services. The Los Angeles-based company, which has long dominated the IPG market thanks […]

NEW YORK — Taking a page out of its enterprise IT playbook, Hewlett-Packard is aiming to provide consumers with full-scale solutions-based “experiences” in order to simplify the shopping and buying of high-tech gadgetry, and will spend $300 million in its largest-ever consumer marketing campaign, Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer, announced on Monday. […]

On the same day that Hewlett-Packard is set to unveil its largest consumer product roll-out in the company’s history, IBM will announce that it is chipping away at the enterprise side of HP’s business by getting LEGO, the world’s fourth-largest toy manufacturer, to switch its entire computing infrastructure from Hewlett Packard servers to IBM on-demand […]

Hewlett-Packard on Monday is set to unveil a new product roll-out and branding initiative geared toward the consumer market that it hopes will revitalize the battered IT sector and, more importantly, better integrate its technology like PC, printers, and networks into everyday life. Dubbed “the largest consumer product roll-out in the company’s history,” the event […]

Internet Security Systems’ Tokyo-based subsidiary, Internet Security Systems K.K., has entered into an alliance with Hong Kong’s PCCW Limited to jointly offer PCCW Managed Security Services (MSS) to protect Hong Kong’s critical infrastructure and business customers, the two companies announced Wednesday. The ever-increasing threat of security attacks on IT systems and networks was highlighted on […]

Extreme Networks is partnering with China’s leading PC maker, Legend Group, to provide enterprise customers across China with co-branded networking systems that the companies claim will offer the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). The deal calls for Extreme’s BlackDiamond and Alpine brands of modular switching platforms to be integrated into Legend’s “Collaborating Application” […]