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Apple Unveils Rackmount Server - 📅 - Computer giant Apple (apple.com) unveiled a new 1U rack-mount server featuring increased computing power and easy to use tools.



The server, named Xserve, was designed from the ground up to complement the company's Unix-based Mac OS X Server software.

The server features dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processors, each of which have 2MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) L3 cache. Apple also said Xserve is the first 1U server to use DDR SDRAM memory with up to 2GB capacity, and that ...
BulkRegister Expects Lengthy Proceedings - 📅 - Tom D?Alleva, vice president of marketing for domain registrar BulkRegister (BulkRegister.com 👉 Total Reviews: 2
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-> enom.com) said on Wednesday that he expects legal proceedings in his company's case against leading registrar VeriSign will take some time to complete.



BulkRegister sued its leading competitor in Baltimore on Monday, claiming VeriSign sent deceptive emails to BulkRegister customers in an effort to encourage the transfer of their domains.



A US District Court Judge agreed on Tuesday, ...
Digex Dismisses Arthur Andersen As Public Accountants - 📅 - Managed Web hosting firm Digex (digex.com) said today it had dismissed Arthur Andersen LLP as its independent public accountants.




The move was made upon the recommendation of its audit committee.


"Through the date of dismissal, Digex has not had any disagreements with Arthur Andersen LLP on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure, nor any reportable events," the company said in a release. ...
EDS Managed Web Hosting Recognized by CMP Media - 📅 - EDS Web Hosting (eds.com) said yesterday it had been named winner of CMP Media LLC's Network Computing 2002 "Well-Connected Award" in the category of Managed Web Hosting Services.



Network Computing's Well-Connected Awards represent the best hardware, software and service solutions evaluated over the past year. EDS' Well-Connected Award comes in recognition of a winning Web hosting proposal submitted to the magazine's Editor's Choice awards.

The Editor's Choice ...
Latis Networks Unveils Security Solution for SMEs - 📅 - Network security software provider Latis Networks (latis.com) today unveiled StillSecure Border Guard v2.5, a scalable architecture designed to protect the networks of small to medium-sized enterprises from unwanted intrusions.



StillSecure Border Guard is the first product in a series of security solutions for mid-size companies to be offered by Latis Networks. The product, according to the company, is built on a scalable, adaptive architecture that implements rules based ...
Inkra Networks Named to Red Herring 100 - 📅 - Inkra Networks (inkra.com) said yesterday it had been included in the Red Herring 100, which is published in the June 2002 issue of Red Herring magazine.




The Red Herring 100 recognizes the top 50 public and the top 50 private companies whose services, business models and management help define business innovation. Compiled by Red Herring magazine, which covers technology, entrepreneurial and finance issues, the Red Herring 100 previews leading companies in a number of key ...
HP Introduces Combined Blade Server Family - 📅 - Hardware manufacturing giant HP (hp.com) announced on Wednesday that it has introduced its combined blade server family, which it calls the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers? needs across enterprise data center, service provider and telco environments.





The combined offering, says HP, encompasses the HP Server BH and the HP ProLiant BL server blade product lines.



In Wednesday's keynote address at the ...
KPNQwest Low on Cash, Shares Could Have No Value - 📅 - Pan-European data communications and Web hosting firm KPNQwest (kpnqwest.com) warned today that it was rapidly running out of cash, and said there "may be no underlying value" to its debt or equity securities.



"Under the present circumstances, without sufficient additional financial support from shareholders, strategic buyers or third party investors, KPNQwest is unable to draw further funds from the existing credit facility in order to meet its funding requirements for all ...
Interliant Obtains $7.5 Million Loan for Operations - 📅 - Managed infrastructure services firm Interliant, Inc. (interliant.com) said today it has secured a working loan of $7.5 million from Silicon Valley Bank, a California chartered bank with principal offices in Santa Clara, California.



The underlying loan agreement has a term of one year and provides for interest at prime plus two percent on amounts borrowed. The loan is collateralized by a first-priority security interest in the company's personal property. As part of this ...
C&W Meets Guidance, Announces Management Change - 📅 - British telecommunications firm Cable & Wireless (cw.com) today announced full-year revenue results that were in line with its February guidance, and said it had seen better than expected performance from its Web hosting units.



As of March 31 2002, the company had £2.6 billion in net cash, £400m better than forecast.

"Our strong cash position at the end of the year reflects the 100 million lower than expected cost of buying back 15 percent of our shares and very ...