Stories by Ephraim Schwartz

IBM Demonstrates Voice Recognition on Palm PDAs

As mobility moves the market for processing cycles off the desktop and into the palm, IBM Corp. today took a major step in offering a useable interface for devices with limited keyboards. The company announced an embedded version of its ViaVoice speech engine for handhelds and other nontraditional form factors.

Cell Phones Strike Back

COMPANIES DECIDING how to equip their mobile employees are facing increasingly tough choices as cellular phones gain computing features usually found on handheld PCs.

3Com Unveils Color Palm IIIc

3Com Corp. yesterday announced two new versions of its popular Palm handheld device, including its first offering to feature a color display, as well as offering a new flat-rate pricing plan for wireless connectivity on the Palm VII.

Intel Unveils NetStructure

SETTING ITS SIGHTS squarely on an emerging category of products for the data center, Intel this week unveiled a line of branded devices aimed at accelerating e-business traffic as it flows between the router and the server farm.

What You See Is Not Always What You Get

Intel inside took on new meaning here at Intel Developer Forum this week when system vendors, showing off their IA-64 server products, admitted that the systems being demonstrated actually were supplied by Intel and were not their own.

Grove Wows Crowd with 1.5GHz Chip

Kicking off the Intel Developer Conference here today, Intel Corp. Chairman Andrew Grove wowed the crowd with the demonstration of a 1.5GHz chip while expounding on the Internet's effect on business.

Intel Proposes New Hard Drive Interface

Intel and six partners including hard drive and system vendors announced here Tuesday the creation of the Serial ATA Working group, which will work to replace the current hard drive interface in desktops and entry-level raid servers.

Weightless Software Takes Off

If what happened to the market for browsers is any indication, shrink-wrapped applications even in the $100 and under range may find it hard to compete with a new business model that offers free Internet access to software without ever having to install it on a device.

Vendors Broach End-user Privacy Issues

A SMALL BUT discernible trend in the technology used to target consumers is focusing on protecting privacy rights rather than invading them. Companies are discovering that there is money to be made in offering privacy protection along with their much-prized one-to-one marketing model.

Clientless Software Detailed at Demo Conference

IF WHAT happened to the market for browsers is any indication, shrink-wrapped applications, even in the $100 and under range, may find it hard to compete with a new business model that offers free access to software on the Internet without ever having to install it on a device.

Loudcloud Surfaces with E-commerce Hosting

The explosion in customer data captured by e-commerce sites is driving a number of solutions unveiled here at Demo 2000 this week as solution providers offer to manage company infrastructures while the companies concentrate on their core business.

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