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The unthinkable has happened: Microsoft has delayed Windows Vista yet again. Office 2007s release date also slipped, from 2006 to 2007. Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsofts Platforms & Services Division, announced March 21 that Microsoft will roll out Vista in two stages. The business, volume-licensed version of Vista will now ship in November, as many […]

Wireless LAN hardware startup Xirrus on Jan. 30 will announce a manufacturing agreement with telecom infrastructure company ADC, according to company officials. Under the terms of the agreement, ADC will rebrand and sell Xirrus wireless LAN array to its enterprise customers. The array combines a WLAN switch and up to 16 integrated access points into […]

Venture-backed identity management startup GeoTrust has snapped up the assets of TrustCenter, a German smart-card maker. The deal gives GeoTrust a major foothold in the European market, where TrustCenters smart-card products are used by 3,500 businesses, including SAP, Siemens, Airbus and Halifax Bank of Scotland. Financial terms of the transaction were not released. Hodges was […]

Hitachi Ltd. and NEC Corp. said Thursday that the two companies have established a joint venture specializing in the production of routers and switches. The joint venture, Alaxala Networks Corp., based in Kawasaki, Japan, specializes in the sale of backbone products to telecommunications carriers. Alaxalas formation follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding by […]

Intel Corp. on Tuesday launched a pair of new Itanium processors geared at reducing the total cost of ownership of Itanium-based servers. The additions flesh out Intels Itanium processor line, filling in niches in its product portfolio. Intel launched new two-way-capable Itaniums at 1.4-GHz and 1.6-GHz, each with 3MB of level-3 cache. The 1.4-GHz chip […]

When Intel Corp. rolls out its 1.1GHz Pentium M mobile processor today, Motion Computing Inc. will be among the many OEMs touting new systems built around the chip. For more on the Pentium M announcement, click here. The 3-year-old, privately held Motion will release the M1400 Tablet PC, a 3-pound tablet that offers a handful […]

By 2006, about 20 percent of the top 2,000 global organizations will use digital rights management to protect content, an analyst firm said Wednesday. About 2 percent of so-called “Global 2000” companies currently use DRM to protect their content, mainly media and music companies, the META Group Inc. said in a report issued Wednesday. DRM […]

Hartmut Sell knows that the European Unions $613 million fine for antitrust violations at Microsoft Corp. means little to a company with more than $50 billion in cash reserves. But Sell, who runs a small computer store in downtown Berlin, relished the punitive spirit of Wednesdays EU ruling against worlds largest software maker. “Its about […]

A variant of the MyDoom worm discovered on Wednesday does more than launch a denial-of-service attack; it also locks out infected users from contacting Web sites that can come to their assistance, including most antivirus companies and Microsoft. The MyDoom worm has been spreading through the Internet at a furious pace since Monday. The variant, […]

The SCO Group, fresh off of news of suspending its Linux distribution last week, today announced it has licensed its Unix technology to Microsoft Corp., according to a company release. The license includes a software patent and source code, and enables Microsoft to be in compliance with SCOs intellectual property rights, according to the company […]