NetFlash: HP forms new blade group

HP is uniting products from across its diverse line into a new division that will create blade-based systems. Beyond just servers, the division will use HP’s storage, management software and network hardware technology to build a new kind of blade. HP forms new blade group http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0921hpforms.html?net

HP is uniting products from across its diverse line into a new division that will create blade-based systems. Beyond just servers, the division will use HP’s storage, management software and network hardware technology to build a new kind of blade.

HP forms new blade group

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0921hpforms.html?net

Microsoft CFO: Expect us to make more big acquisitions

When Microsoft revealed that it had been in talks to merge with SAP, the industry was shocked that Microsoft would even go there. But now the company’s CFO is saying Microsoft’s cash is burning a hole in its pocket, and it might make “a few” acquisitions at more than a billion dollars apiece.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0921microcfo.html?net

AOL, RSA, VeriSign push authentication services

Responding to a scourge of online fraud and identity theft that threatens to undermine public confidence in Internet commerce, major companies are rolling out new services to encourage the adoption of better technology to identify customers, business partners and employees online.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0921aolrsa.html?net

RFID joins wireless lineup at UPS

Wireless technologies have been a critical part of the way UPS does business since the $33 billion company started using scanners to track packages in 1985. Now UPS is looking into the latest wireless technologies to infiltrate the world of logistics: radio frequency identification.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092004upsrfid.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where we’re off at lunchtime getting our geek on as well as our copy of the Star Wars DVDs:

The connection between WLANs and wild cats; AOL offers greater security – kinda; teen foils bomb plot online; and the start of a new Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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