Michael Chait

AMD continued pushing its way into the Intel-dominated server chip market, releasing the latest in it Athlon MP processor line, the 2200+. The new chip represents a switch in its server chip line to 0.13-micron copper process technology. The 0.13-micron manufacturing technology, as opposed to traditional 0.18-micron, allows processors to achieve higher performance while lowering […]

Squaring off with the recently-merged HP/Compaq as well as so-called white box distributors, Dell Monday unveiled its new small business server, PowerEdge 600SC, slashing the price to below six hundred dollars. “Dell’s chief competitor, outside of HP, is a lot of self-built and white box systems by local assemblers,” said Mark Melenovsky, research manager for […]

Six new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to execute commands on a user’s system, were discovered in Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s Web browser. Among the six new flaws are three whose threat Microsoft has designated as “critical” for client systems. The first vulnerability, which was originally addressed by the company in […]

With the company putting all of it weight behind .NET, Microsoft is hoping to ease some of developers’ concerns about Visual Studio’s role in the .Net framework by providing details on the direction of its development products. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant Thursday provided a road map for future versions of its flagship development tool, […]

Microsoft Corp. today released the second service pack for Office XP, combining bounties of updates to the company’s suite of office software into a single package. The service pack 2 (SP2) is available as a 15mb download from Microsoft’s site or can be picked ordered on CD-ROM. The pack will be a collection of all […]

After merger talks with AT&T wireless came to unresolved halt several weeks ago, VoiceStream has reportedly proposed a merger with Cingular Wireless, a combination that could challenge market leader Verizon Wireless. A report in today’s issue of the Wall Street Journal notes that the talks are at a very early stage and could break down […]

Aiming to pull corporate infrastructure developers their direction, IBM and Borland today signed a distribution and marketing deal to bring together their database and development tools. The deal aims to attract both Linux and Windows developers, pitting together IBM’s DB2 database software with Borland’s Rapid Application Development (RAD) set of developer tools. “Borland has a […]

Following his departure from MSNBC.com in June, former MSNBC.com editor-in-chief Merrill Brown has accepted a position with Real Networks as senior vice-president for its RealOne operations. Brown will be responsible for the company’s American RealOne operations, including RealOne SuperPass, RealOne GamePass as well as other associated subscription and advertising products. “As a pioneer in interactive […]

With Microsoft’s Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 2000 finally shipped out last week, attention and criticism is mounting for its next scheduled Exchange release, code-named Titanium. The Redmond, Wash., behemoth has recently begun disclosing the migration roadmap to get users of its messaging and collaboration software from Windows 2000 to .Net. But the message […]

After recently adding support for BEA’s WebLogic Server 7.0 in its development environment for Java, Borland Software is furthering its relationship with San Jose-based BEA to offer a co-branded version, Jbuilder WebLogic Edition. Under the terms of the agreement, BEA will resell Borland’s popular JBuilder Java development tool, and Borland, in turn, will build a […]

Targeting the growing number of consumers using Mac systems at home, America Online released a new AOL for the Mac OS X, offering a number of Mac-tailored features. With Mac users well acquainted to waiting months for features after release to their PC counterparts, AOL may bring a smile to some with a number of […]

While advances in Web services for businesses has accelerated behind company’s firewalls, the ability to define standard business processes is considered by many to be a cornerstone in the adoption of Web services beyond the firewall. Three major players in the Web services market, Microsoft, IBM, and BEA systems, hope to help fill in some […]