5th October 2003 Archive

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• Sun searches for a few good Opteron engineers

  Serious about Solaris x86-64bit

  A new job opening posted on Sun Microsystems' Web site confirms the company's growing aspirations to roll out servers based on AMD's Opteron processor. "Solaris is the world's premier 64-bit operating system," the post on Sun's job board reads. "Now Sun is taking the next step: to make Solaris the operating system of choice for …

  Servers 5 Oct 2003, 16:44

• SonyEricsson P900 – boxed and ready

  The pen is mightier

  SonyEricsson has sold around a million of its P800 smartphone, making it the most popular single PDA model on the market. Although you'd never know it, as the device is outsold by other phones and has a negligible presence in the US consumer market. But it's set to unveil the P900, on October 26, according to reports. Unlike the …

  Mobile 5 Oct 2003, 20:12

• Intel CEO admits: jobs aren't coming back to US

  Barrett's offshore confession

  They're calling it the 'jobless recovery' - but it's a misleading phrase. New jobs are being created in the tech sector, only CEOs are making sure they're in China and India, not at home in the United States. Craig Barrett admits to the New York Times today that while Intel has maintained a steady head count in the US, it has …

  Business 5 Oct 2003, 20:12

• Smart cards get really smart

  Consumer programmable chips

  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed smart credit cards with embedded microchips. What's new about is a technique which lets ordinary card users program in their own spending parameters. Just imagine: employers could better manage spending on corporate cards, while parents could create emergency credit …

  Security 5 Oct 2003, 20:35

• Siebel: second thoughts on hosted CRM

  Inflection point?

  Following a summer of rumor, Siebel Systems has finally spoken out and announced its intention to launch a hosted CRM service. Although widely predicted, the move will throw the already unsteady CRM sector into further turmoil and further raises the issue of whether the enterprise software industry is at a technology inflection …

  Hardware 5 Oct 2003, 20:59