Systemax saves CompUSA from knacker's yard
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Cherry-picks 16 stores Systemax is buying the CompUSA brand name, its ecommerce operations and up to 16 stores in the great CompUSA close-out sale. The big US computer reseller hails CompUSA as a "strong complementary" business to its own retail TigerDirect brand and is paying up to $30m for its new baby, depending on how many stores it actually buys.â¦
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On Wednesday, Network Appliance threw down the gauntlet. NetApp filed suit against Sun Microsystems, claiming that Sun&#39;s storage software in Solaris violates seven NetApp patents. In addition, NetApp is seeking a declaration that it is not infringing on three of Sun&#39;s patents -- and that the patents in question are invalid.
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The Motley Fool - Shortly after we came back from our big vacation overseas in May, my Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) PowerBook was hit with a computer virus. I can't tell you which one, but it was enough to cripple my Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) Office for the Mac software. Symantec's (Nasdaq: SYMC - News) Norton Anti-Virus found the bug, and then eradicated it by exterminating my entire in-box. (Thanks, guys.)
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Unisys is waving goodbye 1,400 workers and getting rid of unused facilities, to save $70ma year by the end of 2005. The computer services firm will take a one-time $63m charge to earnings for the actions, the
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The motherboard's components are changing, but the chipset will survive integration with CPU.
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Xterasys has become the second company to settle its GPL infringement lawsuit with programmers of the Busybox collection of utilities.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun MicrosystemsÂ hasÂ become involved in another intellectual property lawsuit, this time with a company that says Sun and its StorageTek unit have committed copyright infringement and fraud. Internet development tools maker Netbula,Â of San Leandro, California, has filed suit against Sun and Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland for unlawful use of Netbula's core technology in their LibAttach software, according to Netbula. Netbula also claims that Sun and StorageTek breached a contract Netbula has with the companies and misrepresented their use of Netbula's technology, part of its main product line PowerRPC, in their infringement of copyrights. PowerRPC is a cross-platform client/server development kit for various versions of Windows, as well as for Unix and Java. Sun announcedÂ it would purchase StorageTek in June 2005, but Netbula is suing the two as separate companies because the copyright infringement began when they were still individual entities, said Vonnah Brillet, the attorney handling the case for Netbula. Brillet said Netbula's president Don Yue developed software and sold a license for it to StorageTek when it was a stand-alone company. At one point when he asked about whether StorageTek was still using the technology, he was told the company was not, she said. However, some time after that, someone from StorageTek asked Yue for updates to the technology, which proved that the company was still using it, but not paying for the license, Brillet said. Netbula tried to resolve the issue with Sun before filing the suit to no avail, the company said. It is seeking an injunction to stop Sun and StorageTek from using its technology. The lawsuit also seeks financial restitution. Sun is currently embroiled in another intellectual property suit over patents. Earlier this year, startup company Azul Systems Inc. sued the Santa Clara, California, vendor in a defensive move afterÂ Sun threatened the company with litigation for patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. Azul called Sun's charges unfounded and sued for declaratory relief against the accusations and the threat of litigation. Azul said Sun would file a lawsuit unless Azul granted Sun partial ownership of the company. Sun eventually countersued Azul in May for patent infringement. The cases are still pending in California.
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools
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Mendocino Software today announced that InfiniView&#8482;,  the industry's only enterprise-class  continuous data protection (CDP) solution, now supports VMware ESX  Server, Version 3 and higher.
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LONDON -- PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will say goodbye to floppy disks once the current stash is gone.
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Sanmina-SCI sells business to Foxconn and Lenovo Sanmina-SCI, the US electronics contract manufacturing company, has sold its PC business to Foxconn, a major Taiwanese competitor, for between $80m-$90m. It is also selling its Mexican PC plant to Lenovo, for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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The Open-Xchange Server software is released for download.
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eTrust Antivirus mistook a critical security process for malware.
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Sun Microsystems faces another intellectual property lawsuit as Netbula files suit for copyright infringement and fraud related to the use of certain core technology. The problem apparently stems from arrangements made before Sun's 2005 purchase of StorageTek.
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For the second time this week, a storage hardware vendor has acquired a storage software vendor. On Thursday, officials of Louisville, Colo.
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'Lacks seriousness and sincerity' We were skeptical on Monday when Symantec said it would atone for a bug that crippled the PCs of tens of thousands Chinese users by giving them free software. "Cockroach in your salad, sir? Have some free salad," was how we put it.â¦
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A soft IT market is weighing on the storage company.