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.
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.
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 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.
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.