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$399-After-Rebate Desktop Has DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive This week’s big news from Gateway is the closing of its red-ink-stained retail stores, but the next biggest news is a revised spring lineup of retail PCs — the first from the eMachines brand since the latter’s acquisition by Gateway last month. The new eMachines desktops consist of two […]

Although information technology (IT) executives and corporate business leaders increasingly acknowledge the potential benefits of better aligning IT with business strategy, few have succeeded at making the link. Ninety-six percent of IT executives surveyed predict a “significant” or “moderate” positive bottom-line impact if an IT strategy were specifically developed to closely align with and support […]

According to the New York Times, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the Bush administration, while concerned about job loses in the U.S., believes the outsourcing is just a natural outgrowth of globalization and the best way to mitigate the problem is to encourage India to open its markets to U.S. investments, goods and services. […]

If the Datamation Product of the Year Awards were the Oscars, then this year’s ”Lord of the Rings” would have to be Hewlett-Packard Co. With three of the 10 awards voted by readers, HP was the biggest winner in this year’s contest. The company came out on top in the Client Systems/Laptop, Client Systems/Mobile and […]

Setting IT departments everywhere abuzz… Jump to: HP: You Can Never Be Too Thin US LEC’s Managed Router Services We’re No.1! Cisco Claims VPN and Firewall Leadership Review: Red Hat Enterprise Server Put to the Test Community: Gigabit Ethernet Upgrade Elsewhere… Applying WLANs in Warehouses Linux: Off The Shelf And Onto Your Lap(top) Enterprise Unix […]

Ask any administrator and he will spin a good yarn about destructive users, clueless bosses and IT departments at each other’s throats. Keeping a network up and running these days is more like fighting a small war. While admins are generally equipped to battle the forces that threaten their networks, they may find that end […]

Cheap is often seen as a disparaging word — it smacks of caveat emptor — let the buyer beware. But cheap can by synomynous with being a bargain, particularly in the case of the Satellite S270 wireless notebook PC, Toshiba’s latest low-end laptop introduced this week. Toshiba’s digital products division offers three different families of […]

Red Hat Enterprise Server: Linux distribution for small-to-midlevel servers In North America, “Red Hat” has long been synonymous with “Linux.” In the past few years, the company has shifted its emphasis to its “Enterprise Linux” line, which includes a workstation edition, a small-to-midlevel server offering, and a high-end edition able to run on anything from […]

As many readers may know, JupiterWeb hosts a number of popular forum sites for IT professionals and technologists to trade opinions, seek advice, offer tips or just plain argue. Now readers of Datamation, CIO Update and other EarthWeb sites geared toward IT managers have their own forum — two of them, in fact. IT Management […]

By Ron Miller Two of the nation’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs) filed civil actions against bulk e-mailers Thursday to combat the continuing spam flooding ISP servers. Dulles, Va.-based America Online (AOL) filed a $1.6 million civil law suit in Florida, claiming that a software firm conspired with international spammers based in Thailand to deliver […]