Some 1.6GB hard disk drives shipped with Hewlett-Packard’s Vectra VL 4 and Vectra 500 series PCs may fail, the company confirmed today.
The problem tends to manifest itself when the drive is relatively new, said Ken Bosley, product manager for the Vectra VL series. The models that had th ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Lucent Technologies announced yesterday that it expanded the call-handling capabilities of its Definity Enterprise Communications Server (ECS) to include desktop videoconferencing and data collaboration.
These enhancements to Lucent’s PBX will let you manage calls via multimedia PCs just ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
IBM later this week will announce a new version of its OS/2 Warp 4.0 server that supports Windows 95 and Windows NT clients, company officials said today.
The Windows 95 update will be available for download early next week, while NT support will be available in a beta version later this month ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Web surfers without an elephant’s memory can rest easy thanks to Web-Recall, which TSP Companies will announce next week.
Set to ship in March, Web-Recall will let users with a Web browser click a Recall button to log URLs during surfing sessions. The function serves as an in-house libra ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
In an aggressive bid to gain wider market share, Compaq on Monday unleashed a price-cutting blitz on products ranging from portable and desktop PCs to servers and networking hardware.
Officials of the Houston-based company said the price reductions are also part of the PC giant’s overall ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Work for a company that’s not quite big enough to hire a
personnel manager? Policies Now 5.0 for Windows is a major step forward from the
DOS version of this employee-handbook generator. I looked at a shipping copy.
The process starts with an interactive interview about perso ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Excite is now in the news clipping business with a new product called NewsTracker.
The artificial intelligence tool, which offers searches from 300 publications online, looks for news items in categories that users choose.
Joe Kraus, Excite’s senior vice president for business develop ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Firefly Network, the company that pioneered the use of intelligent agents on the Web, plans to offer its technology to businesses and application developers that hope to build Web and intranet-based communities.
Firefly’s Web site allows you to obtain film and music recommendations by en ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
