Hardware & Systems
AMD Announces Athlon XP Barton for February 10, Opteron for April 22
'Clawhammer' is pushed back again -- to September 2003 -- but AMD confirms that 'Sledgehammer,' the Opteron 64-bit server and workstation CPU, will debut in April. The 'Barton' Athlon XP 3000+ will arrive even sooner -- a week from Monday.


Brother Launches 5-Inch-High Printer/Scanner/ Fax/Copiers
An ultra-low-profile design, high-resolution color printing and flatbed scanning, convenient copying and faxing, bundled image editing and OCR software -- what's left for Brother to add to its newest multifunction peripherals? Well, one model is also a phone and answering machine.


Gateway Tablet PC Review
By Eric Grevstad
Heads will turn when you carry Gateway's (and Motion Computing's) three-pound clipboard into the conference room. Eyes will widen as the slate goes seamlessly from smooth, intuitive scribbling and sketching to desktop PC duty with the supplied docking base and keyboard. But how does this star of the new Tablet PC generation compare to conventional portables' price and performance?

Networking & Communications
Migration Path in Place for Lotus Notes to NextGen
By Jacqueline Emigh
IBM is planning a new release of Lotus Domino/Notes for 2004 that will act as a migration path to the NextGen architecture based on WebSphere and DB2. Meanwhile, the first two products in the NextGen family -- a lightweight e-mail system and a learning management offering -- are slated for release this year.


Preventing Vexation and Woe: DNS Fundamentals, Part 1
By Carla Schroder
DNS makes the Internet world go 'round. Carla Schroder takes a look at how DNS works on both the client and server sides in this two-part tutorial.


CNT and StorageTek Alliance Extended to Professional Services
StorageTek customers will gain access to more expertise in remote storage for business continuity as part of continued collaboration efforts with CNT.
—Network Storage Forum

Metro Ethernet Market to Grow to $5.7 Billion, Research Firm Says
Worldwide Metro Ethernet equipment revenue hit $2.5 billion in 2002 and is projected to grow 131 percent to $5.7 billion by 2006, according to a new study from Infonetics Research.
—OpticallyNetworked

Donning Our Swami Hats: Storage Trends for 2003
By Leslie Wood
Well, it's that time of year again. January is almost over and we have heard more than our fair share of both useful and useless predictions for 2003. And although the folks at Enterprise Storage Forum are not in the 'prediction' business, we thought we would find out from a few well-informed storage folks what they think this coming year holds for the storage industry.
—Network Storage Forum

Vixel Announces New 20-port InSpeed SOC
The next generation release of Vixel's InSpeed Technology adds key new features like trunking and inter-switch frame communication to aid in designing ultra-reliable switched back-end storage arrays.
—Network Storage Forum

Web Developer
Gateway Tablet PC Review
Heads will turn when you carry Gateway's three-pound clipboard into the conference room. Eyes will widen as the slate goes from smooth, intuitive scribbling and sketching to desktop PC duty with its docking base and keyboard. But how does this star of the new Tablet PC generation compare to conventional portables' price and performance?


RIAA Trains Anti-Piracy Guns on Universities
The RIAA is taking its battle against illegal filing sharing to universities across the country, and some colleges are cracking down on students.


Say What You Want, It's Still the Leader
Don't be too quick to dismiss AOL as a factor in the online media game.

Software Development
Windows CE and the Great Big Mobile World Out There!
By Nancy Nicolaisen
It's a great big diverse mobile world out there, but not a world that Microsoft Windows CE is taking by storm. In fact, today's Palm OS devices enjoy the majority market share, so in pragmatic sense, there are really only two kinds of PDAs: Palms and the rest. Exactly where does that leave Windows CE developers?


Switching to the Mac for the Java Developer, Part 2
By Benoît Marchal
Benoît Marchal continues his discussion on Mac development for the Java programmer.


Distributed Applications, the Easy Way
By Eugene Mayevski - There are many ways of transferring data from one process to another. Learn a way to have a flexible data exchange system and to avoid going deep into technical details.


Taking the Complexity Out of Creating COM ArraysThe Matrix Class Utility
By Steve Dunn - Arrays can be tedious, especially when passing them across COM/DCOM. This utility class aids the creation of arrays, including safe arrays and variants.


JCP Watch: Extended Unicode Support, New 'New I/O's' and Class File Changes
By Apu Shah
This week's update on the JCP.


More Windows Secrets for Visual Basic
By Karl Moore
Karl Moore presents more secrets for Visual Basic programmers. Learn how to check for a previous instance in .NET, how to convert RichTextBox to HTML, how to support dragging-and-dropping from Windows Explorer, and the exact code you need to capture the screen, quickly and easily.