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Extending deeper into the low end of the printer market, Xerox Corp. on Monday rolled out a new color laser printer for small and medium-sized businesses. “We see color moving down market, where there is very fierce competition,” said Joe Adriano, product manager at Xerox, in Wilsonville, Ore. “HP [Hewlett-Packard Co.] rules the monochrome world; […]

Gateway Inc. on Tuesday made its first foray into networking with the launch of its new Layer 2 network switches. Chad McDonald, manager of networking products at Gateway, said the new switches are priced for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), continuing the companys push into that market. /zimages/3/28571.gif Click here to read Gateway founder Ted […]

Neoware Systems Inc. this week introduced four new thin-client appliances aimed at the enterprise. The new appliances are compatible with network management platforms including IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Systems Management Server and Altiris Deployment Solution. “Typically companies dont like proprietary technologies that lock them into a single solution; its a 1970s-style business model,” said Mike Kantrowitz, […]

Linux distributor MandrakeSoft last week announced that a French court had approved the companys plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Under the plan, MandrakeSoft will pay back its creditors over nine years. MandrakeSoft, which filed for bankruptcy protection a little more than a year ago, recently posted its first profitable quarter since 1999. For the […]

Thin-client vendor Neoware Systems Inc. and embedded-hardware specialist VIA Technologies Inc. announced Friday that they are teaming up to develop thin-client appliances for the enterprise. Neoware already uses VIA processors in some of its Eon thin-client appliances, but the two companies now will work together much more closely, officials said in King of Prussia, Pa. […]

In its latest move to bolster its on-demand offerings, IBM today scooped up longtime partner Candle Corp. Candle, a privately held company in El Segundo, Calif., makes tools to help companies build, run and manage their IT infrastructures. IBM said the tools will help users manage on-demand operating environments. Customer need drove IBMs move to […]

Spam sent over instant-messaging networks, also known as “spim,” is on the rise, researchers say. Whether or not the “spim” moniker sticks around, IMs containing spam are likely not going away anytime soon. Spam-loaded IMs will jump from 400 million in 2003 to 1.2 billion in 2004, according to a recent report from Palo Alto, […]

MandrakeSoft SA announced Tuesday that a French court has approved the Paris-based Linux distributors plan to exit bankruptcy protection. Under the plan, MandrakeSoft will pay back its creditors over a nine-year period. MandrakeSoft, which filed for bankruptcy protection a little more than a year ago, recently posted its first profitable quarter since 1999. For the […]

Giant chipmaker Intel Corp. will pay former workstation maker Intergraph Corp. $225 million to settle a patent dispute over technology in Intels Itanium microprocessors. Intergraph sued Intel in 2001 in a case around Intergraphs PIC (Parallel Instruction Computing) patents, which the Huntsville, Ala.-based company claims Intel infringed in the development of its IA-64 processors, known […]

If youre like most IT professionals, when you hear the word “network,” youre likely to picture a Web of computers or looming security threats, not a social circle. But a panel of experts gathered in New York this month to dispel that perception and discuss the importance of social networks in the enterprise. The panelists, […]