Clint Boulton

HP has agreed to support the HD-DVD high-definition DVD format in addition to the Blu-ray Disc format, becoming the latest influential company to back both competing standards for high-quality digital television. The Palo Alto, Calif., systems vendor also joined the HD-DVD Promotions Group. Originally only a backer of Blu-ray, HP last month promised to add […]

UPDATED: Tokyo District Court today said it is ordering the disclosure of evidence collected by the Fair Trade Commission of Japan (JFTC) during its antitrust investigation of Intel K.K., a move that could help AMD in its current antitrust cases against the top chipmaker. The evidence, discovered during raids of the offices of Intel K.K., […]

If you thought IBM was going to rest on its laurels while Sun Microsystems garners attention for its new multi-core T1 Unix servers, think again. IBM today opened the AIX Collaboration Center (ACC) in Austin, Texas, a facility where IBM engineers can help software vendors write new applications and middleware for IBM’s AIX operating system […]

Dissatisfied with the way the current security methods that protect people using the Internet, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will conduct a two-day workshop to discuss better options. The W3C is calling for position papers on Web authentication, the process of verifying that a Web user is really who he or she claims to […]

IBM said it will make the blueprints of its PowerPC 405 core freely available to researchers and academia through open standards industry group Power.org. The PowerPC 405 family of cores is at the heart of a range of computing devices, from gaming consoles to the BlueGene/L supercomputer. The move, announced at an investment summit in […]

With the popularity of Linux clusters booming, IBM has opened up the source code to its General Parallel File System (GPFS), so it can run on other vendors’ hardware. The move is the Armonk, N.Y., company’s latest attempt to free up some of its technology in the name of Linux, with the idea that it […]

Microsoft has released the first beta of Microsoft Exchange 12, the forthcoming version of the company’s messaging software designed to give corporate IT staffs greater control over data transfer. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has fashioned Exchange 12, which fuels tasks like e-mail and calendar planning in corporations, with greater in-box access for employees on […]

Dell today said it is reselling continuous data protection (CDP) software from partner Symantec to help customers fight data loss. Dell will offer Symantec Backup Exec 10d and the Symantec Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server Suite to give small- and medium-sized businesses disk-based backup and self-service user data recovery. The software suite also includes Veritas […]

HP is pinning its technology hopes on distributed computing, mobile computing and digital imaging as it moves toward the future. During a meeting with securities analysts in New York today, HP CEO Mark Hurd outlined the companies strengths and weaknesses and pledged to align cost objectives with capabilities as part of the move to get […]

The pulse of the storage software market is beating strong and steady, thanks to the pickup in replication and backup software used to satisfy compliance regulations and avert data loss from national disasters. The market grew 10 percent year over year to $2.1 billion in the third quarter of 2005, according to research firm IDC. […]

To date, Sun Microsystems has found some takers for its Grid Compute Utility, which lets customers tap into computing power for $1 per hour per CPU. But now Sun is giving away the computing tool. The Santa, Clara, Calif., company granted Princeton University 100,000 hours of central processing units (CPUs) for the tool. The New […]

Software consolidation continued this week as Intalio acquired FiveSight Technologies, a privately held maker of open source business process execution language (BPEL) software. Chicago-based FiveSight develops software for the BPEL 2.0 specification to give companies a way to synchronize distributed computing practices, like Web services , with a company’s business processes. Orchestrating services and processes […]