John Cox

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IBM plots course for Informix database

With the US$1 billion acquisition of the Informix database business that closed Monday, IBM Corp. will roughly double its business in Unix and Windows NT/2000 databases.

Futuristic wireless LANs hit Vegas

Wireless vendors used the recently held NetWorld+Interop 2001 show in Las Vegas, Nev. to unveil the faster (and smaller) future of wireless LANs.

Aether unveils building blocks

Software announced by Aether Systems Inc. last month is an ambitious attempt to simplify the work of letting sundry handheld devices wirelessly connect with existing corporate data.

New PalmOS handheld offers two expansion slots

HandEra Inc. has released a PalmOS handheld with 25 per cent more screen space than rival models and two expansion slots, one for new Secure Digital cards and the other for CompactFlash cards.

Palm looks to Pioneer its data synch technology

Palm Inc. plans to use its buyout of Extended Systems to solve one of the biggest stumbling blocks to using handheld computers in the enterprise: copying data between the devices and corporate servers.

Wireless vendor takes on the big guns

A tiny manufacturer of wireless LANs has filed federal lawsuits against some of the network industry giants, charging them with infringing on key wireless patents.

Palm exec lays out wireless game plan for future Bluetooth applications at Internet World Wireless

Palm Inc. is hard at work making its popular line of PDAs better wireless clients, according to Alan Kessler, the company

Computer-to-computer e-commerce is on its way

Say goodbye to the Web browser . . . at least for business-to-business commerce.

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