Ashlee Vance

When the worst-case scenario became a reality with the terrorist attacks in the U.S., organizations of all kinds were forced to reevaluate how they run their IT shops, providing a possible boon for several sectors of the IT industry.

Sun Microsystems Inc. updated its range of entry-level servers on Monday. The company will introduce one product, the V880, aimed directly at competing systems based on Intel Corp. processors, and another built as an upgrade to its Netra server line and targeted at telecommunication companies.

Microsoft Corp. is working to fix a technical glitch that blocked a number of browsers made by rival software makers from accessing the MSN.com portal throughout Thursday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has delayed the release of one of the key software features on its midrange server line, saying the tool that adds mainframe-like features to the company's hardware will not be out until next year.

Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin bundling a security product designed to detect and analyze hacks on a server operating system with its hardware running HP-UX.

IBM Corp.'s long-awaited p690 high-end Unix server, formerly code-named Regatta, is now on sale, the company said Thursday. The system should help IBM catch up with competitor Sun Microsystems Inc., according to industry analysts.

As expected, Excite@Home Inc. announced Friday that AT&T Corp. will purchase the broadband Internet access business and services assets of the Internet service provider (ISP) for US$307 million.

The number of cell phones worldwide could eclipse the number of traditional land lines by 2006, according to a report issued Thursday by a California research company.