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Documentum (Nasdaq: DCTM) Thursday says it is promoting its COO Dave De Walt to CEO. Former CEO Jeff Miller says he will stay on as chairman of the board. In his new role as CEO, De Walt will have complete responsibility for the strategic leadership and operational management of Documentum. “Dave has been a guiding […]

Some folks see it as a crackdown. However, the Chinese government wants folks to sees it as a massive clean-up effort. Either way…thousands of Internet cafes across China either have been closed or ordered to do so, according to Xinhua, the government’s official news service. Without attribution, the Reuters news agency quickly pointed out: “To […]

Spike Broadband Systems, a Nashua, N.H., provider of fixed-wireless broadband access, has laid off 40 workers, about 20 percent of its staff, in a bid to turn a profit. Affected employees will receive severance pay, help finding a new job and an extension of their stock option exercise period. Company executives did their best to […]

Eight video game manufacturers involved in the lawsuit brought against them by relatives of several victims in the Columbine massacre have asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit. The families of victims of the Columbine massacre sued the video manufacturers and distributors in April seeking $5 billion in punitive damages. The lawsuit was filed […]

Row upon row of rackable servers, locked up inside black metal cages and surrounded by smiling security guards waving you into carefully air-conditioned rooms with cameras recording every moment is what you’ll find if you visit the newly upgraded Internet Solutions (IS) Internet Data Centers (IDCs), launched to the press at a function Wednesday. IS […]

The Shanghai branch of China’s Bank of Communications (BOC) has teamed with Hong Kong-based Cyber On-Air to enable its customers to access their bank account details and conduct financial transactions from their WAP-enabled mobile phones. The recently launched Banking On-Air wireless Internet solution combines SMS and WAP gateways with software applications, enabling users to check […]

NaviSite said its president and CEO, Joel Rosen, will step down at month’s end. Rosen, who joined the Andover, Mass., Web and application host in April 1999, will stay on in a consulting role. COO Trish Gilligan will serve as acting CEO while a decision is made about a replacement. “Joel Rosen has led NaviSite’s […]

A new worm known as “Code Red” has been spreading around the Net defacing Web pages by infecting servers running Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server. eEye Digital Security said the worm is similar to the sadmind/IIS worm that propagated near the end of the U.S.-China hacker skirmishes in May. Code Red tries […]

EMC Corporation today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2001. According to the company, total consolidated revenue for the second quarter was $2.02 billion, 6% lower than the $2.15 billion recorded in the second quarter of 2000. Net income for the quarter dropped to $109 million from $429 million in the second quarter […]

CNT today announced that its new IBM TotalStorage Solution Center offers services that include storage testing, designing, education and training to customers. The center is part of an IBM network of over 110 solution centers worldwide. “CNT has experience with IBM that dates back over 15 years and the combination of their skills and IBM […]

Vixel Corporation (Nasdaq:VIXL), a provider of storage area networking solutions, today announced that it has completed certification of its Fibre Channel fabric switching products with Syncsort’s Backup Express software. “The significance of this certification is that both Vixel and Syncsort customers now have the option of implementing our respective products together into storage applications, whether […]

DataCore(TM) Software, a provider of storage virtualization and networking software today announced that Bell Microproducts has joined DataCore Software’s reseller network as its first distribution partner. This agreement will allow San Jose, Calif.-based Bell Microproducts to provide and support DataCore’s SANvantage(TM) storage solutions program. “DataCore’s SANvantage program and SANsymphony are excellent additions to our total […]