Bob Liu

Despite the pick-up in activity in the DSL market, the Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) market in 2002 held steady in terms of volume of ports shipped with Japan, China and Taiwan leading worldwide sales, according to a new study. But while volume has remained steady, revenue has actually fallen because of lower prices, […]

Three years ago, Unisys broke free of its heritage as a stodgy mainframe company by redefining itself in the high-end computing market with the introduction of the ES7000 family of Intel-based servers running on Windows. Capitalizing then on the greater stability of Windows 2000, Unisys was able to make some inroads in the high-end server […]

The Sendmail Consortium, which manages deployment of the world’s most popular message transfer agent (MTA) to handle email, was left scrambling over the weekend to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain control of a unpatched sendmail server. The vulnerability, discovered by Michal Zalewski, occurs because address parsing code in […]

Some domain name registrars outside of China have started to offer .CN domains to their members for pre-registrations. China’s Ministry of Information Industry made the decision to open up URLs with .cn extensions to individuals and businesses located outside of China in the fall of 2002. The move came as part of relaxing trade regulations […]

I think I should clarify that I do support copyright enforcement. But I also stand for due process. Much has been said of the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) pending court battle to learn the identity of a Verizon DSL user that knowingly and repeatedly infringed on copyrights. The stigma of peer-to-peer file-sharing is […]

By the time the Nissan Open kicks off on Thursday in Los Angeles, the PGA Tour is hoping that Linux will be able to bring gold fans closer to the action than ever before. By then, PGATour.com is expecting to roll out TOURCast, a downloadable application first previewed last month at the LinuxWorld Expo in […]

Joltage Networks, the operator of Internet access hotspots based on the IEEE 802.11b standard also known as Wi-Fi, has reportedly called it quits. On Sunday, company officials sent an email to subscribers saying Joltage plans to shut down by the end of the month, according to the Wi-Fi Networking News site, a web log started […]

Dice Inc. on Tuesday announced it agreed to a financial restructuring that will force it into pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy and re-emerge as a private entity. The online job board reached the arrangement with one of its largest creditors, Elliott Associates (also known as Elliott International), which collectively hold approximately 48 percent of Dice’s 7 […]

A worm that computer security officials have known about since last summer virtually halted Internet traffic over the weekend in some parts of the world. The worm, reportedly called “Sapphire” or “Slammer,” affected servers through a well-publicized vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Once it attaches to a server it transmits multiple data requests in […]

By the time Ciena closed on its acquisition of ONI Systems (formerly Optical Networks Inc.) last June, the Linthicum, Md.-based telecom equipment vendor ended up paying only half of what the deal was originally valued because of the depressed state of the telecom sector. But as it turned out, Ciena will now have to pay […]

NEW YORK — Eager to show its support for the open-source community, Dell Computer on Wednesday announced it has added high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) capabilites to its PowerEdge 1655MC blade servers — the company’s first blades that support the Linux environment. The announcement underscores the emphasis that IT vendors at the Linux World Expo are […]

The best way to appreciate this week’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (LWE) in New York is to understand what won’t be showcased there. At first glance, the open source community might appear to be at a standstill. Yes, there’s a new FreeBSD. But, that’s about it. There is no new Linux kernel ; there’s no […]