Susan Kuchinskas

Looking to stem the tide of fraudulent e-mails MailFrontier, a vendor of security products for messaging applications, Monday launched the beta version of an application that could keep those evil e-mails from even showing up. The company’s MailFrontier Matador 3.5 uses proprietary analytics software to automatically detect and categorize fraudulent e-mails for Outlook and Outlook […]

Clothing retailer Marks & Spencer this week said it is moving forward with its test of tagging individual products with RFID tags that can automate inventory and stocking. RFID tags are tiny transponders that can communicate at short distances with reading devices. The trial bends over backward to address privacy concerns: The tags are conspicuous, […]

Dell today announced a new family of PDAs. Available in three configurations, the Axim X3 line is lighter and thinner than Axim5s. One model, the Axim X3i, includes integrated Wi-Fi connectivity. The devices, running on Intel XScale processors at 400 or 300 MHz with 64 or 32 megabytes of SDRAM, are priced at $379 for […]

Hewlett-Packard this week is touting the first handhelds that enable local and very local networking at the same time. HP’s iPAQ Pocket PC h4150 and iPAQ h4350 ship with short-range Bluetooth and mid-range 802.11 wireless capabilities. HP launched the two PocketPCs on Sunday at the ITU Telecom World trade show in Geneva as part of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Executives at Sun Microsystems Wednesday said the company wants to change the way the industry thinks about partitioning computer resources. “We’re about to see a revolution in what we all mean by network computing and what we mean by systems,” Sun executive vice president and CTO Greg Papadopoulos told the crowd at […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sounding a bit like an ad for a local auto dealer, Sun Microsystems Wednesday emphasized low, low cost for its servers and systems. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based creator of Java unveiled another batch of new products and services on the third day of its SunNetworks Conference here, bringing the total product announcements […]

Businesses are getting overcharged for enterprise hardware and software by a factor of 10, according to Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. The leader of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company kicked off the firm’s SunNetwork 2003 Conference and Pavilion with a painful admission about the IT industry. “We’ve made it too hard,” he told attendees. Instead […]

VeriSign is quickly making plans to hook every can of Coke — and box of screws and shirt — into the Internet. The digital security company and domain registrar Friday said its EPC Network Services Suite, to be unveiled September 15, could give every product its own IP address, so that manufacturers and retailers could […]

FairMarket , a provider of online auction and promotions software, Wednesday said its shareholders had approved a sale of “substantially all” of its assets to San Jose, Calif.-based online auctioneer eBay . . Fairmarket customers include Dell, CompUSA and SAM’S CLUB. FairMarket will continue in its Woburn, Mass., location under the new name of Dynabazaar, […]

FileMaker has made its name as a low-cost, easy-to-use app that lets individuals build databases their way. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple Computer , often sneaks into the enterprise in the coat pockets and backpacks of employees, where it’s made a home serving teams and workgroups. With the release of […]

Taking the concept of e-commerce in new directions, Hitachi Tuesday unveiled one of the world’s tiniest RFID chips with an internal antenna. The Tokyo-based firm said its new 0.4 by 0.4 mm chip could be embedded in bank notes, gift certificates and other paper documents. The previous iteration of Hitachi’s u-chip, announced in 2001, was […]

Retailing giant Wal-Mart said this week it will put some 7,200 truck drivers to work helping to locate abducted children with the help of wireless technology from QUALCOMM . As part of its Roadwatch: Missing Child Alert program, Wal-Mart Wednesday said it will use a wireless logistics service from the San Diego, Calif.-based wireless giant […]