CinemaNow and Warner will split the proceeds of the cyber-rentals. In related news, MovieLink has signed a deal with IBM which will see Big Blue provide managed hosting services, including systems operations and network management to its online...
HP shipped the long-delayed ProLiant DL740 and DL760 servers in February. Servers can be configured with either 1.5GHz or 2GHz Pentium 4 Xeon processors and to run Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, UnixWare 7.1.3...
HP is to upgrade its ProLiant BL10e blade server with a 1GHz Pentium M - a processor code-named Banias that should boost performance over the current 900MHz ultra-low-voltage Pentium III used in the current product.
Ridley added that he has previously happily used HP ProLiant servers - which would have given HP a foot in the storage door - but may next time consider Dell, previously only a PC supplier. University of Huddersfield has spent £1m on storage...
The UK has Europe's second highest connection and rental charges, with connection charges almost double the average and rentals a third higher. And the end result would effectively be setting up a monopoly supplier of the network - it would just...
With Windows Media Player 10, Microsoft hopes to leapfrog competitors such as Apple and RealNetworks with some novel features, notably support for music rentals and video playback on a new generation of portable devices.