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Just in time for Spring, personal digital assistant (PDA) manufacturer Handspring, Inc. , is dropping prices on its Visor Neo and Visor Edge organizers, officials announced Monday. Karen Sipprell, Handspring vice president of corporate marketing, said the low prices and accessories are perfect “for dads and grads looking to organize their lives.” “With more than […]

By @NY Staff IBM Researchers say they have passed another milestone regarding research into carbon-based transistors that could pave the way for their replacement of silicon transistors in computers. In an article to appear in the May 20 issue of the scientific journal Applied Physics Letters, the IBM research team detail their work with carbon […]

Despite a 4.5 percent dip in revenue in 2001, the Asia Pacific fixed telecom services market, including Japan, will continue to show modest growth over the next five years, said Gartner. The fixed telecom services in Asia will hit US$111.6 billion in 2002, up 1.8 percent from 2001. The industry will continue to experience single-digit […]

Auspex Systems, Inc. (ASPX)has released a white paper addressing the latest approaches available to help enterprises control the hardware and administrative costs associated with data storage. The 19-page document, called “NAS-SAN Convergence Today: New Trends in Enterprise Storage”, can be downloaded free of charge from the Auspex Website. The paper discusses the current enterprise storage […]

Jamcracker and Salesforce.com are two pioneers of the ASP industry, but neither company has spent much time looking back lately as they gear up for the next wave in the evolution of software-as-a-service. This week, both companies announced changes to their executive management teams as they position themselves for the future. Salesforce.com, a San Francisco-based […]

Tricord Systems, Inc., developer of Illumina(TM) clustering software and Lunar Flare(TM) clustered server appliances, and Realtimepublishers.com, the worldwide leader in corporate-sponsored e-publishing, today announced The Definitive Guide(TM) to High-Availability NAS, an eBook that will be hosted on the Tricord Web site. Authored by industry expert, John Vacca, and published by Realtimepublishers, the eBook will discuss […]

Over a week after discussing new revenue initiatives in an earnings conference call, women’s portal iVillage remains in the hunt for a licensing deal with Internet Service Providers to complement its other premium offerings. The plan is to strike a distribution deal with major Internet Service Providers, notably AOL and MSN. The idea, which the […]

Network Appliance, Inc. today announced it has been presented with a Texas Instruments (TI) Supplier Excellence Award (SEA). The annual award honors companies that demonstrate a level of dedication and commitment in providing TI with products and services that meet TI’s high standards for excellence. Since 1984, TI has issued the award annually to recognize […]

Fleet National Bank, part of FleetBoston Financial , has unveiled new software that provides government clients a dashboard view of their accounts and the ability to produce custom reports. Fleet DataExcel was developed by Evare, a Burlington, Mass., firm specializing in applications for banks, brokerages and institutional investors. “Government entities have a number of special, […]

By Erin Joyce The New York Times Digital has gained a new distribution arm for its paid content pitches: Internet information company Yahoo! . The NYTimes.com and Yahoo! News have struck a deal in which the NYTimes.com paid archives are to be piped into Yahoo!’s news sections (http://www.news.yahoo.com). The deal alters a standing distribution agreement […]

Strong demand from enterprises for managed virtual private network (VPN) services will help push the worldwide Internet Protocol (IP) VPN equipment to revenues of US$4.7 billion by 2006, says Gartner. The research and advisory firm projects that the market will soar 45.7 percent this year alone, from US$2.05 billion in 2001 to just under US$3 […]

By @NY Staff Restructuring costs kept adding up for Internet hosting company Globix during the second quarter, in which it declared a net loss of $87.6 million ($2.21) on revenues of $21.4 million. The results were driven largely by a $48.4 million charge it took to reduce the size of a data center in its […]