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Upstart Could Shake Up Networked Storage
News First came Fibre Channel, then iSCSI. Now, for the increasingly popular idea of using a network to connect storage to servers, there's a third option called ATA over Ethernet. Networked storage makes it easier to share storage efficiently among...
[July 27, 2006, 16:25]
Hollywood Targets DVD-copying Upstart
News The movie industry is training its legal guns on a new target: a small start-up that lets people make copies of their DVDs. On Thursday, seven major movie studios filed a countersuit in federal court in San Francisco, claiming that 321 Studios is...
[December 23, 2002, 8:51]
Chip Upstart Takes On Intel... With God
News The desktop PC processor market is turning into a battle of biblical proportions. So it only seems appropriate that newcomer VIA Technologies names its processors after biblical heroes. Let's call VIA "David", because the company, lead by 45-year...
[March 10, 2000, 15:14]
MS Gets Heavy With Shareware Upstart
News A shareware developer and former Microsoft worker is vowing to fight his ex-employer for the right to distribute his home-networking software. Lawyers representing Microsoft sent a cease-and-desist letter last week to Esiod Systems, a small...
[June 11, 2003, 9:27]
Guy Kawasaki On The Upstart 'art'
News The Apple-evangelist-turned-VC talks about how to make a success of starting up a business
[September 22, 2004, 13:00]
Mozilla Upstart Looks Up To Safari
News A small band of software developers tired of code and feature bloat are building yet another browser based on Mozilla. A new development project called Epiphany has splintered from the Galeon effort, which also was formed to create a simplified...
[February 20, 2003, 10:48]
Canonical Goes 'edgy' With Latest Ubuntu
News The boot process, called Upstart, is among several dozen new features in the Linux version. Upstart replaces the decades-old "init" software originally created for System V Unix and provides "substantially faster" start-up times, Canonical said.
[October 26, 2006, 9:05]
Transmeta Completes Japanese Invasion
News Transmeta is an upstart trying to break into the competitive world of processors by taking on Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Although no major US manufacturer has backed Transmeta, so far, the Japanese support leaves the upstart "well positioned...
[May 18, 2001, 10:06]
So, What's This Firefox Thing Then?
News Of course, luring the average user with misleading emails and hyperlinks is not very difficult to do, and as a result, some IT departments are now deciding that the constant patching and security concerns of supporting IE are not worth it, and...
[November 22, 2004, 10:35]
Bluetooth Shifts To The Enterprise
News Meanwhile, British Bluetooth upstart Red-M, of Wexham Springs, has announced plans to ship its own SD sled for Palm devices as soon as next month. Motorola will offer a Bluetooth CompactFlash card for the Compaq iPaq by the end of the year, as will...
[June 12, 2001, 11:08]
Big Integrators Cash In
News In some cases, these channel giants, with their tens of thousands of IT consultants, may be better equipped to build massive sites than their upstart Web competitors. The San Francisco-based upstart has inked a deal with PwC, where PwC will build...
[March 23, 2000, 9:48]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback Thus people who did not know of Data General before DEC came to know about them, and since IT managers are a curious lot they obviously wanted to know more about the "upstart, renegade" from DEC, which ultimately led them to Data General faster...
[September 24, 2004, 6:08]
.Name Masterplan To Rake In The Cash
News Global Name Registry, the tiny Internet upstart behind the .name registry, is expected to reap millions of dollars from handing out domain names to individuals, and which plans to use that cash to become the electronic world's main identity tool.
[May 30, 2001, 16:49]
Next-generation IP
White Papers The Internet has grown from upstart network into a backbone of enterprise computing. Beyond Internet access, many companies are adding other IP-based services for voice, video, VPN and hosting. In this Videocast we look at the benefits and...
[August 28, 2004, 3:00]
Out With The Old, Bring In The New -- Firewalls?
News In fact, some believe that the novelty of what upstart vendors have to offer will be short-lived. The buzz about Web services has turned to discussions about the added security risks they pose. According to Gartner, Web services is about "moving...
[January 28, 2003, 10:47]
3 Stung By Termination Caps
Blog The streetfighting upstart of the UK operator community, it has been hit hard by Ofcom's decision to cap termination rates. Pity poor 3. In an interview with the Financial Times, the chief executive of 3 UK, Kevin Russell, has claimed that Ofcom's...
[May 30, 2007, 17:08]
Transmeta Revs Up Crusoe
News The TM 5800 will offer a 50 percent performance increase over the TM 5600, the upstart chipmaker said on Wednesday. Transmeta will release a new Crusoe chip later this month, as it continues to try to win its first deal with a US notebook maker.
[June 14, 2001, 10:01]
It's Time Vendors Ate Their Own Penguin Food
Talkback I trust that one of the 'big guys' - IBM, Novell, Dell, or Gateway, et al.will 'lead' the market AFTER one of them sees a tiny upstart 'rake in the dough' from their linux efforts. IBM 'lead' the personal computer market AFTER seeing the puny Apple...
[January 17, 2004, 17:55]
Smoothing The Integration Road For Enterprise Linux
White Papers Helping its popularity spread are vendors like IBM, Oracle, Intel and AMD who are rolling out a myriad of enterprise technologies that keep pushing the boundaries of what this upstart operating system can do.
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
ADSL Comes Home
White Papers These new CLECs have begun to offer services at very attractive rates relative to traditional T-1 service, making it apparent that the RBOCs had better get aggressive on DSL or risk losing a substantial part of their business to these upstart CLECs.
[September 23, 2003, 7:28]
