IBM unveils zero per cent finance offer on servers
Hoping to boost its fourth-quarter sales, IBM last week announced a zero per cent financing program for purchases of Intel-based xSeries servers.
Hoping to boost its fourth-quarter sales, IBM last week announced a zero per cent financing program for purchases of Intel-based xSeries servers.
Lucent Technologies said last week that it plans to sell its 1400-worker enterprise professional services division by the end of the year, as it continues to restructure its business in a tough market.
A 6 teraflop Terascale supercomputer that will be used for severe-weather forecasting, earthquake modeling and other projects was unveiled today at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC).
Museums wanting customised .museum Internet top-level domain names will be able to buy them by early next month, according to the agency that oversees Web domain names.
After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top level domain addresses that can be visited using Internet browser software.
The red ink continues for Linux market leader Red Hat, which yesterday reported net losses of $US55.3 million for the second fiscal quarter ended August 31.
Until now, competitors Compaq Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have had separate strategies for the continued use of the Linux operating system in their products and services. So what happens if the proposed merger of the two companies is completed?
The National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday announced a $US53 million project to connect a series of remotely located powerful computers into a high-speed Linux supercomputer grid that could open vast new opportunities for scientific and medical breakthroughs.
Former Novell CEO Eric Schmidt has been appointed CEO of search engine company Google, five months after joining the company as chairman of the board.
A bogus Microsoft security alert is apparently being used by crafty hackers to spread the latest version of a computer worm on the Internet.
After waiting patiently for their chance to try out the beta-test version of Microsoft's upcoming Windows XP operating system, some users have been unable since last week to download the software via the Internet.
Faced with a slackening computer hardware market, Compaq is overhauling its business strategy to focus on selling all-encompassing packages of services, software and hardware.
In another deal touted as a step toward making it easier for corporate users to combine storage devices made by different vendors, IBM and Hitachi on Wednesday announced an agreement to license key interfaces to each other in order to make some of their products more interoperable.
Eight months after last November's presidential election cliffhanger, Dell has joined with election technology vendor Hart InterCivic to market a new electronic voting system that does away with paper ballots, mechanical machines and other antiquated systems.
Canadian business intelligence software vendor Cognos has announced it plans to lay off about 300 people amid lower-than-expected earnings in its fiscal first quarter.