Asymetrix Corp has released a beta of its Super Cede Virtual Machine to speed up Java execution as much as 50 times, putting Java programs at a rate similar to C++. Asymetrix will pit Super Cede VM, scheduled to ship in July, against Borland International’s AppAccelerator just-in-time compiler.
Lucent Technologies Inc won a $300m contract from its parent – until the thing is spun off – AT&T Corp to supply digital cellular telephones to AT&T Wireless Services: Lucent will supply the AT&T unit with more than 1m digital cellular phones over the two-year contract.
Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday unveiled its new line of Pentium Pro servers optimized for Windows NT: pricing starts at $14,340 for the NetServer LX Pro 166 and $5,800 for the HP NetServer Plus; they are to be available for order next month.
Sprint Corp doesn’t have cash to waste on hollow gestures of solidarity, and responded to remarks by French telecommunications minister Francois Fillon yesterday by saying it has no immediate plans to buy an equity stake in France Telecom.
Yeah, we thought, when we saw hysterical headlines citing a Dataquest Inc report saying that cable modem shipments would rise 92% this year – last year 100 were shipped, this year it will be 192, but the figures Dataquest is forecasting are scarcely less trivial than that – it reckons that cable modem ships will be a mere 25,000 this year, and the report actually cautions that other technologies will limit the market, and is even titled Cable Modems – Speed is not Enough.
