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Storage networking company Emulex Corp. has signed a non-exclusive OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. for host bus adapters, the company announced Monday. User pressure was the driving force behind the deal, according to Emulex and an industry analyst.

Five years of development and US$1.4 billion of investment later, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) unveiled scalable inkjet technology Monday it claims will substantially improve the speed and performance of home and small and midsize office printers. The company also plans to take the technology to the commercial market, HP said.

IBM Corp. is hoping to encourage banks to make more use of digital certificates through a tie-up with trusted identity company Identrus LLC, Big Blue announced. Identrus has certified version 1.5 and higher of IBM's z/OS mainframe operating system so that users of the software can act as their own digital certificate authorities, eliminating potentially costly middleman certifiers, according to an IBM executive.

SourceLabs Inc. has unveiled the first version of Swik, a community-based online catalog of open-source projects, which can be freely accessed and amended by end users or developers.

Half of the Fortune 500 companies have dealt with at least one incident related to computer porn in the workplace over the past 12 months, according to a survey released. Corporations are taking the problem very seriously, with offenders being fired in 44 per cent of the cases or being disciplined in a further 41 per cent of the instances.

Dell Inc. is to unveil an additional connectivity option for its blade server Tuesday, according to a company executive. Dell also expects to announce further connectivity plug-ins shortly as part of the company's ongoing strategy to reposition blades as general purpose servers.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken the wraps off a 64-bit UltraSparc-based laptop, the Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation, at the JavaOne show in San Francisco. The laptop should be generally available this month and entry-level pricing begins at US$3,400.

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to release the industry's first DAT USB 2.0 tape drives for servers next month, the company announced Monday. Aimed at small to midsize businesses (SMBs), the move is part of an ongoing HP strategy to make storage products for data backup easier to use.