Ryan B. Patrick

Intel Corp. launched its latest Pentium 4 desktop processor in November,nthe first P4 to break the 3GHz speed barrier.

Public wireless LAN (WLAN) provider Spotnik Mobile announced Friday it has secured $6 million in financing from Vancouver telecommunications company Telus Corp. towards the development of a public high-speed Wi-Fi network.

Xerox Canada

Citrix Systems Inc. made several announcements at its iForum usernconference in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month, including a licensingnagreement with BEA Systems Inc. to develop an NFuse Classic portlet for thenBEA WebLogic Portal 7.0.

Eighty-five per cent of Global 2000 companies will adopt an enterprise portal by 2004, according to Meta Group Canada.

The US$2.7 million identity theft scam recently uncovered in the U.S. should serve notice to all enterprises that information security cannot be taken lightly, according to one IT security expert.

Banking on a future that positions the PC as an all-purpose business communications tool, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. announced that they are developing a device that emphasizes real-time communications.

Dell Canada