Mark Berniker

Microsoft said Wednesday it has begun beta availability of Windows Server 2003 for 64-bit Extended Systems, adding the company will support both Standard and Enterprise editions. It also said it would add a Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems made by Intel . Intel has yet to push a 64-bit strategy, as […]

Leveraging a variety of content assets, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to expand its MSN Video portal. While AOL Time Warner , RealNetworks and Yahoo are all offering subscription-based video service, Microsoft’s offering will be free for MSN subscribers. MSN Video will have an advantage over added-value Web video services already on the market, […]

Microsoft Corp. said it has struck a deal with Vodafone to work together on standards for the emerging market for mobile Web services. The plan announced Monday in Geneva at the International Telecommunications Union’s Telecom World 2003 conference is aimed at software developers who are working on a variety of different applications. At issue are […]

HP said it is has begun its .NET Solutions Partner Program, aimed at enterprise customers. HP argues that by joining the program companies can both reduce their costs and accelerate the pace of the rollout of Microsoft .NET software and HP’s Web service offerings. The deal underscores the proximity of the corporate relationship between HP […]

No stranger to accounting controversy, Computer Associates said late Wednesday it has fired three top company officials for their role in the software firm’s ongoing accounting scandal. CA Chairman Sanjay Kumar said Ira Zar, the company’s chief financial officer, along with senior vice president for finance, Lloyd Silverstein and David Rivard, vice president for finance, […]

While Microsoft faces a number of lesser competitors, the software giant continues to garner share in server operating system markets. IDC on Wednesday said Microsoft will hold its dominant position in the worldwide market for providing operating systems for server environments through 2007. The Framingham, Mass.-based research firm went on to say that despite continued […]

When you think of a major Finnish mobile handset manufacturer, GameBoy-like, multi-purpose gadgets don’t necessarily come to mind. But Nokia has announced its foray into the mobile videogame market with the official release of its N-Gage system, which combines a handheld videogame player with a wireless phone, paging functions, a MP3 player and a variety […]

After four months of study over the summer, Motorola has decided to spin off its semiconductor division with an IPO sometime next year. The move will “unlock the value” of the company’s chip division, said departing CEO Christopher Galvin in a conference call. The Chicago-area company’s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) does about $5 billion a […]

Comcast has doubled downstream speeds for its high-speed Internet customers in several markets in the South and Midwest. Customers in theses areas will have access to a new 3 Mbps service at no additional cost. Previously, downstream speeds were close to 1.5 Mbps. Upstream speeds will remain at 256 Kbps. The upgrade debuts today in: […]

IBM has entered into a 10-year, U.S. $2.57 billion information technology joint venture with Nordea, the Nordic banking group that is also a leading online banking provider. The project will involve the transformation and consolidation of the banking group’s overall IT infrastructure into an on-demand architecture. “This partnership will facilitate a large transformation process to […]

As Microsoft readies the rollout of Office 2003, Adobe Systems and Xerox Corp. are endorsing each others standards for digital printing technology. The printing standards in question are Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Job Definition Format (JDF) job ticketing, Adobe PostScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML) and both static and variable information workflow technologies. The joint […]

While DVD has replaced VHS as the standard for video, media companies have shied away from competing with video store franchises, which distribute their product. But Disney, with the launch of its new MovieBeam service is getting into the business of electronic movie distribution. Walt Disney Co. said it has launched MovieBeam, what the company […]