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Bell Microproducts, Inc. subsidiary Rorke Data, Inc. today announced that its new Galaxy-i(TM) series of desktop and rackmount RAID solutions for data-intensive environments, such as digital video editing, effects creation, and streaming media production for the Internet, has received compatibility endorsements from Spruce, Matrox, Pinnacle, DPS (Digital Processing Systems), and Media 100. The Galaxy- series […]

Storage area network (SAN) product manufacturer JNI(R) Corporation today announced its Emerald(TM) JNIC-1460 application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) controller will power the second generation of Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) SAN interconnect gateway devices to be deployed by ADVA Optical Networking later this year under the DiskLink family of intelligent SAN gateways. The JNIC-1460, designated […]

SYDNEY — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched a new online presence to help manage illegal sales practices over the Internet, as it encourages consumers to exercise their offline rights in the digital world. The new site, called Slam-A-Cyberscam, is an automated service “with the capacity to take thousands of complaints at […]

SYDNEY — The Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations (FACTS) has created a Digital TV Strategy Group with participation from all free-to-air television broadcasters, in a combined move to drive the Australian uptake of digital TV. The new group will manage a range of policy, technical and marketing issues, including developing a common Application Program […]

Law firm Gilbert & Tobin has formed a consortium to launch an independent service designed to help small to medium businesses traipse through Web development toward a successful site. The eCom-Advisor site canvases the core information the consortium has considered businesses need to move into the Internet economy. Its content covers the preparation and assessment […]

SINGAPORE — Ericsson has extended its next-generation multi-service network solution, ENGINE, to include a portfolio of broadband services for small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs). ENGINE enables new packet-based multi-service networks to be implemented and supports a smooth and rapid evolution of existing circuit-switched networks into packet-based multi-service networks, officials said. The integrated end-to-end SME offering, with one […]

The Federal Government has developed a new framework to apply to future IT outsourcing tenders, in a bid to surface from criticism of its initial $5 billion plan to outsource IT needs. The system aims to be streamlined, with simpler outsourcing contracts and lower bidding costs “without sacrificing industry development objectives such as regional and […]

Peer-to-peer technology may be getting pooh-poohed in some circles, but not with First Union bank’s fixed income derivatives group. New York’s DataSynapse, which helps customers harness idle and underused computing in their network, has a deal with the bank designed to help it shorten trading and post-trading processes known as straight through processing (STP). The […]

During the CTIA Wireless 2001 show in Las Vegas last month, wireless industry watchers were caught off-guard when a number of wireless technology firms revealed they were much closer to launching third-generation (3G) technologies than previously thought. But the pattern of delays reasserted itself Tuesday when Japan’s wireless giant, NTT DoCoMo Inc. — widely regarded […]

The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) today reported that the next major milestone on its 5.25-inch Magneto-Optical (MO) technology roadmap has been realized. With shipments of 9GB (14X) MO products that began early this year, the industry group claims it has continued to deliver on its targeted backward-compatible capacity migration path critical to high-performance archival […]

Globalstor Data Corp. today announced the InfinAttach(TM) NAS (network-attached storage) Server utilizing embedded NT. The InfinAttach NAS is available in both a midrange and enterprise versions. According to Globalstor’, the midrange solution offers connections too as many as 30 SCSI devices and access to as many as 20 clients. The server includes a 60GB hard […]

SINGAPORE — Taiwan’s KG Telecommunications Co. Ltd. has selected Openwave Systems, Inc. to expand its current gateway capacity to offer a wider range of innovative mobile Internet services over its GSM 1800 network. The telco will also deploy Openwave’s Mobile Access Gateway 5.0 to support its GPRS network. KG Telecom is said to be Taiwan’s […]