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Focuses on the Seybold Seminars which will be held in September 2001 in San Francisco, California. Goal of the event; Details on the event's conferences; Keynote speakers of the event.

Focuses on Rise Technology, a central processing unit (CPU) manufacturer located in Santa Clara, California. Efforts of Rise Technology to build low cost CPUs and sell them at low prices; Competition with Intel Corp.; Details of Rise Technology's MP6 computer chip; The competitive aspects of the chip.

The author discusses the highlights of his experiment on the idea of a key-ring Quick Response (QR) code for lost keys. He says that he cut the laminated QR codes to create tags and then attached them to six key rings carrying the copies of the old key. He adds that the left the keys in different locations around San Francisco in California. He also offers the instructions for making the key-ring QR code.

The article presents information on the long-running Macworld Expo conference and exposition to be held during January 26-28, 2012 in San Francisco, California.

This section presents the author's observation on new products showcased at the 2005 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, California. Mac mini's $499 price--the lowest ever for a Mac--is the only second most startling thing about the new machine. Its looks recall the ill-fated G4 Cube, but the Cube was nearly five times taller, not to mention nearly four times more expensive. In the mini's 85 cubic inches, Apple fit a G4 processor, a 40 gigabyte or 80 gigabyte hard drive, the standard ports and room for the optional AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth. The Mac mini should also be of interest to those of us who are already in the Mac camp. At Macworld Expo, the Mac mini was upstaged by the tiny iPod shuffle, which costs as little as $99 and weighs less than an ounce. But consider this: If one want a pretty interface and a big collection of music, Apple has a few other products one may have heard of--the iPod photo, the iPod and the iPod mini. The iPod shuffle is a different product, designed for people who want to have an ultrasmall, ultra-expensive player that lets them make take along a respectable slice of their music collection. I doubt the iPod shuffle will ever be as popular as the other members of the iPod family. But, like the Mac mini, it fills some important niches.

This article reports on Microsoft's 2005 Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) held in Los Angeles, California. PDC 2005 promises to be the hottest Microsoft event in years, giving software professionals a chance to dive into core Windows Vista application program interfaces. Also planned are sessions on the next versions of C# and Visual Basic, both of which will include support for the new .Net Language Integrated Query Framework, which provides tools for easily managing multiple data types, including objects, relational data, and XML. PDC is expected to deliver still more products, with an emphasis on new technologies associated with Vista, Longhorn Server, and the upcoming Office 12 productivity suite.

Reports on the formation of an open group by several computer vendors to create a directory standard based on Extensible Markup Language called Directory Service Markup Language (DSML). Information on the Burton Group Catalyst conference in Squaw Valley, California; Features of DSML; Details on Directory Interoperability Forum.

Highlights the outcome of the computer vendor-run Sapphire 1998 conference in Los Angeles, California. Emphasis on the market performance of the Service Advertising Protocol business applications; Participants of the conference; Information on the sales of Hydro Agri North America. INSET: More rock, more talk at Sapphire `98.

The article reports that computer storage vendors will launch storage devices at the 2007 Storage Networking World conference, sponsored by the magazine, to be held on April 16 to 19 in San Diego, California. The storage systems will be available at affordable prices which will cater the demands and needs of small and midsize companies. The event will be participated by top companies belonging to the computer industry including EMC Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symantec Corp. The storage products which will be released by each company were also discussed.

The article reports on the scheduled announcement of the new customer-support software Guardian of BEA Systems Inc. on September 19, 2006 at the company's BEAWorld user conference in San Francisco, California. According to Todd Chipman, senior marketing director of the company, Guardian can send an alert that informs users of potential problems like configuration errors, security vulnerabilities and defects and can offer various options to users on how to handle the problem once it is identified. In the meantime, the new software will initially be available for use with BEA WebLogic 8.1 and will generally be made available in December.

This article reports on the appointment of Cecilia Claudio as chief information officer of Mercury Interactive Corp. in Mountain View, California.

This article reports on the appointment of James Rinaldi as chief information officer of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The article presents various events related to computer industry. Some of the events are, Macworld 2005 which will be held in Boston, from July 11-14. It includes tracks on IT issues, including Mac OS troubleshooting, management and administration, advanced user topics, servers and services, power tools such as Adobe Creative Suite. Mac OS X Server and Professional Photoshop. Linuxworld Conference & Expo will be held in San Francisco,California, from August 8-11. It includes tracks on the business case for Linux, such as maximizing competitive advantage with enterprise open-source, the legal landscape and licenses and licensing; systems and application management issues, such as integrating with the rest of the enterprise and Unix-to-Linux migration. HP World 2005 will be held in San Francisco, California, from August 14-18. It includes tracks on disaster recovery and backup, enterprise management, heterogeneous environments. HP-UX, Linux, mobile/wireless, networking, security, server hardware, storage, systems administration and OpenVMS.

This article presents the author's views on the first Start of Authority (SOA) Executive Forum conducted by Infoworld in San Jose, California and in New York, both in May 2005. The juxtaposition of the two events helped me reconcile a deep schism between two factions, which I will call the WS and Web 2.0 camps. The argument, which revolves around pairs of opposing and overloaded words--simplicity versus complexity, decentralization versus centralization, agility versus stability--has been going on for years, but it is gotten really loud in recent months. Like a pair of bookends, our two keynote speakers neatly bracketed the debate. In San Jose, Motorola CIO Toby Redshaw sketched out a SOA deployment that was music to the ears of WS-aligned vendors and standards makers. For Redshaw, the key to success is shared infrastructure: a central directory based on the oft-maligned UDDI standard, and an enterprisewide WS management system. At our New York event, though, Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka told a very different story. His task was to streamline financial and clinical data exchange across New England's network of physicians, hospitals, and insurers. The solution relies on techniques that Web 2.0 advocates know and love: XML across HTTP, secured with Secure Sockets Layer. Simple Object Access Protocol and WS-Security are part of the mix now, but the system was up and running before those standards were done. And to this day, for political and logistical reasons, it remains a loose federation with little shared infrastructure or central control.

This article list products that will be unveiled during the Wi-Fi Planet Conference and Exposition to be held November 30 to December 2, 2004 at San Jose, California. Products will range from AirMagnet's multifunction application programs (AP), and InterDigital's client cards with steerable antennas, to VeriWave's test equipment for Voice-over Internet Protocol installations and Sesame Networks software to monitor guests on the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). AirMagnet will unveil a prototype multifunction AP that includes AirMagent intrusion detection and disk operating system attack software. Also expected at the conference is InterDigiatl's announcement of its entrance to the wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi ) market with a solution called Adaptive Interference Management (AIM). According to Brett Attebery, product marketing manager at InterDigital, AIM monitors and reacts to interference using a unique antenna technology. Meanwhile, Veriwave is expected to unveil Traffic Generator, a device which verifies the quality and performance of devices used in Wi-Fi networks by emulating traffic then capturing and receiving data from test devices to analyze it. In addition, Sesame Networks will also announce a North American Channel program to resell its SesameSpots through VAR channel.

This article reports on the plan of Intel Corp. to develop dual core versions of its Pentium 4 desktop and Xeon server chips in San Francisco, California. The company claims it is not yet ready to reveal details about the next Xeon processor but they promised that a dual-core Xeon will be the next major follow-on to the Nocona chip.

This article reports on the ruling of Chief Judge Vaughan Walker on the antitrust claims filed by PeopleSoft Inc. against Oracle Corp. in San Francisco, California. The ruling paved the way for Oracle to proceed with its takeover bid for PeopleSoft, rejecting the effort of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the offer on antitrust grounds. According to Walker, the attorneys of DOJ had failed to prove that a merger of Oracle and PeopleSoft is substantially to lessen competition in the business applications market.

This article highlights the 2004 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, California. Presented in the conference is the possibility of using the computer software Linux as an alternative to Windows on end-user personal computers. And conference attendees weigh potential cost savings of the technology against its immaturity. Entelos Inc. plans to move its 90 users to a desktop release of Linux when its Windows maintenance contract comes up for renewal. During a panel discussion, speakers offered suggestions for companies contemplating migrations to desktop Linux.

The article presents schedules of events and activities related to the computer industry in 2004. The Supernova 2004 conference is scheduled on June 24 and 25 at Santa Clara, California. The conference explores the implications of pervasive connectivity and decentralization. Topics include voice over Internet protocol, social networking, Web services, Wi-Fi and unlicensed wireless, blogging and syndication, broadband applications, next-generation e-mail, grid computing, digital identity, collaboration tools and digital content distribution. The LinuxWorld Expo is scheduled from August 2 to 5 in San Francisco, California. It is sponsored by IDG World Expo Corp. The conference explores how to leverage Linux in your organization. Tracks include business issues, security issues, managing Linux, developer issues, emerging technologies, Linux on the desktop and operating in a mixed environment. The SIMposium 2004 is scheduled from September 12 to 14 in Chicago, Illinois. It is sponsored by the Society for Information Management. The conference is designed by and for chief information officers and other senior IT executives for peer-to-peer exchange on business and technology issues, including emerging technologies and applications, operational excellence, technology leadership and creating and measuring business value.

Reports on the interest expressed by computer programmers in the code-named technologies that Microsoft Corp. demonstrated at its Professional Developers Conference in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. Expectations on the commercial release of Longhorn, a Windows operating system; Information on a developer preview version of Longhorn distributed by Microsoft; Other technologies introduced by Microsoft at the event. INSET: Cracking the Code Names.

Previews a preview on the 2002 LinuxWorld Conference & Exposition in San Francisco, California. Features of the event; Key note speakers of the event; Companies that will be participating in the event.

Presents news briefs on the U.S. computer industry as of July 29, 2002. Losses posted by Key3Media Group Inc. for the first quarter of the year; Details of the database licensing contract cancelled by Oracle Corp. and the California state government; Number of workers laid off by Avaya Inc.

Presents news briefs related to the computer industry as of July 8, 2002. Information on the shut down of the agency with oversight responsibility for the California state's information technology spending; Refusal of Linux operating system vendor MandrakeSoft to join the UnitedLinux initiative; Financial performance of Compuware Corp. for the quarter ending June 30.

Presents updates on the computer industry in California as of May 7, 2001. Planned acquisition of Skillsvillage Inc. by Peoplesoft Inc.; Layoff of workers at Loudcloud Inc.

Focuses on the legacy left by the death of William Hewlett of the Hewlett-Packard company at the Silicon Valley in California in January 2001. How Hewlett and David Packard associated the essence of humanity in the creation of the company; Principles practiced by Hewlett-Packard; How Hewlett viewed the long-term operations of companies in the Silicon Valley.

Presents news briefs on computer-related issues in the United States as of September 4, 2000. Features promised by Microsoft Corp. for its Internet Explorer 5.5; Companies targeted by a bill that would allow companies to charge tax on Internet purchases in California; Acquisition of Verio Inc. by NTT Communications Corp.

Announces the support given by hardware vendors to the open-source operating system at the LinuxWorld trade show in San Jose, California. List of vendors that participated in the show; Strategies planned by software vendors; How the show may influence the open-source operating system.

Deals with the 1999 LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, California. Key promises expected by users from supporters of Linux operating system.

Presents news briefs from the computer industry as of December 13, 1999. Payment of property taxes in San Diego, California over the Internet; Geographic information system software and maintenance services purchased by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency from Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.; Licensing of the InterQual acute care, rehabilitation and quality-monitoring management software from McKesson HBOC Inc. by John Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Provides information on Homebrew Computer Club, a group of computer developers in Menlo Park, California. Members of the club; Details on the circuit board developed by Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computer Inc.

Interviews Lew Platt, chief executive officer of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co., about the firm's revival plan. Challenge faced by the company; Internet strategies of HP; Efforts to improve the company's revenue.

Covers information on the Powersoft Conference 1998 in Los Angeles, California. Concern of users brought to Sybase Inc.; Comments from Victor Reinhart, developer at PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.; Information on Jagdish Karira, a project manager at systems integrator TRW Inc.

Notes developments affecting the United States computer industry, as of December 14, 1998. Power outage across California's San Francisco Bay Area; Dell Computer's installation of a software patch for year 2000 remediation; Delay in the release of Apple Computer's new portable computer.

Discloses Oracle's launch of its Oracle 8i software at Oracle Open-World in San Francisco, California in November 1998. Introduction of version of JDeveloper Java development tool; Addition of enhancements to handle the performance and access needs of Internet users; Launch of customized bundles for customers. INSET: Oracle buys Concentra, by Stannie Holt..

Opinion. Looks at how computer companies in Silicon Valley, California, have reacted over the United States Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft. Claims made by Microsoft against the Justice Department; Reasons for the antitrust investigations and lawsuit; Details on the reactions of companies towards the suit.

Presents information on various news briefs in relation to the computer industry. Information on Sun Microsystems Incorporated; Reference to Umax Corporation; Statistical information on Intel chips which was compiled by International Data Corporation.

Examines the problems being faced by Mountain View, California-based computer hardware manufacturer Silicon Graphics Inc. Decision to lay off 700 to 1000 employees; Resignation of longtime chief executive Gary Lauer.

Reports on the issues to be addressed at the SCO Forum96 conference in Santa Cruz, California. Demonstration of Internet access devices or network computers; Competition between Unix and Windows NT Server operating system; Report on SCO/Hewlett-Packard Co. joint development effort to produce a Unix operating system called 3DA.

Reports on the triconference of Internet Expo, Web World and E-Mail World this February 1996 in San Jose California. Speakers during the event; Product announcements and highlights.

Comments on the agreements forged among computer companies in California. Intel Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp.'s plan to form a combined Web site to promote and sell their product; Plan of Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Communications Systems Inc. to acquire Bay Networks; Partnership between Cringe and Oracle Corp.

Reports on the guidelines presented by computer companies in Silicon Valley, California to help businesses establish in-house telecommuting programs. Basis on research from Smart Valley pilot projects; Recommendations on home-based telecommuting; Participating remote access vendors.

Reports on products for demonstration at the Seybold San Francisco exhibition. Storm Technology Inc.'s digital signal processor accelerator boards; Printers from Sharp Electronics Corp. and Mitsubishi International Corp.; Eastman Kodak Co.'s compact disc (CD) writing station; More.