The Segway Human Transporter (HT) is the first of its kind—a self-balancing, personal transportation device that's designed to operate in any pedestrian environment.
Mercury targets IT services
Mercury Interactive Corp last month introduced software that gives C-level executives an easy way to view application performance data and relate it in real-time to business services and end users, said the firm.
Intel boosts cache on Gallatin Xeon Processor MP
Intel Corp. released three new chips for multiprocessor server environments Monday, updating its Xeon line of processors with a larger level 3 cache and faster clock speeds.
FBI: DNS server attacks came from US, Korea
The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against 13 of the Internet's core servers has been traced to computers in the U.S. and Korea, according to statements made by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Robert Mueller.
HP to consolidate reseller, developer programs
Hewlett-Packard Co. is consolidating all its partnership programs for system integrators, consultants, independent software vendors (ISVs) and resellers in the wake of its merger with Compaq Computer Corp., the company will announce Monday.
Report: SEC probe of Lucent broader than disclosed
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) investigation of accounting practices at telecommunication equipment company Lucent Technologies Inc. is more extensive than initially disclosed, covering bookkeeping maneuvers occurring several years earlier than the improper transactions already acknowledged by Lucent, according to a Friday report in the Wall Street Journal.
HKSME, Trend Micro train unemployed
Trend Micro and the Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises Association (HKSME Association) last week jointly announced a Youth Trainee Program.
IT boost for Hong Kong disadvantaged
Three local charities--the Heep Hong Society, the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, and the Hong Kong Blind Union--announced a scheme aimed at helping disadvantaged HKSAR citizens to embrace the use of information technology in their lives at an event in Hong Kong last week.
Privacy fears over Smart ID card linger
All 6.8 million Hong Kong residents will be issued a Computerized "Smart" ID card--the world's first multi-application mandatory ID card--by mid-2003.
CIOs: Stop 'begging' for IT funding and show value
IT leaders can prove the value of IT investments to senior management by shifting away from being viewed as a cost center and focusing on how they are helping companies achieve top-line growth, said CIOs at a Society for Information Management (SIM) conference.
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Doing it with meaning Traditional middleware products could take care of the nuts-and-bolts job of converting files spewed out in EDI, legacy data formats and various flavors of XML.
Microsoft licensing: Day one On the first official day of its new software licensing program, Microsoft Corp. is staying mum on the number of customers who have signed up, but so far the new strategy seems to have been met with confusion and frustration on the part of customers and industry observers.
