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Data centre hardware
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April 01, 2004
01
Apr'04
Microsoft unveils Windows CE with VoIP
Microsoft will unveil enhancements to the VoIP capabilities of Windows CE in the upcoming version 5.0.
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March 30, 2004
30
Mar'04
Unisys offers pay-per-use mainframe
Unisys has introduced a pay-per-use pricing model that will save customers between 20% and 30% in costs as part of its latest...
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March 30, 2004
30
Mar'04
PocketDBA adds Teradata management
Expand Beyond has developed a version of its PocketDBA remote management software for use with data warehousing systems from...
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March 30, 2004
30
Mar'04
Gates hints at 2006 Longhorn release
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates hinted at a 2006 release date for the next version of Windows,...
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March 29, 2004
29
Mar'04
IT directors lack mobile strategy
The majority of IT departments do not have a clear strategy for managing mobile devices within their business, according to a...
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March 29, 2004
29
Mar'04
Novell brings forward next Netware launch
Novell reinforced its commitment to open source Linux for business at its annual Brainshare user conference in Salt Lake City...
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March 29, 2004
29
Mar'04
'Only risk is not to take risk' says NHS chief
Is the government's national programme for NHS IT set to be the biggest gamble in the world?
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March 29, 2004
29
Mar'04
Critter takes hard drive temperature
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University in the US are monitoring the temperature of hard drives used on the campus to work...
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March 26, 2004
26
Mar'04
Nokia to launch 40 products in 2004
Nokia launched a record 40 products last year and intends to keep up that level of releases in 2004 as the market recovers.
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March 25, 2004
25
Mar'04
Microsoft sets Speech Server pricing
Microsoft has revealed pricing and licensing details for its Speech Server 2004 products, the company's first speech recognition...
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March 25, 2004
25
Mar'04
Transmeta and NEC team on low-power chips
NEC Electronics has licensed Transmeta's LongRun2 power management software for use in the Japanese company's upcoming...
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March 25, 2004
25
Mar'04
Dell resumes Inspiron XPS shipments
Dell has resumed shipments of the Inspiron XPS system, its first notebook computer aimed exclusively at gaming enthusiasts, after...
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March 25, 2004
25
Mar'04
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition debuts
Microsoft has unveiled Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition along with a Visual Studio 2005 technology preview and a series of...
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March 25, 2004
25
Mar'04
Gnome desktop launch delayed after attack
The release of Version 2.6 of the open-source Gnome desktop has been delayed until the end of the month after an apparent breach...
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March 24, 2004
24
Mar'04
Microsoft launches Small Business Centre site
Microsoft will replace bCentral with a Microsoft Small Business Centre website.
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March 23, 2004
23
Mar'04
BT 'frightened by the enormity' of NHS's £2.3bn IT programme
Health minister and BT chief talk of risks in delivering the NHS national programme for IT
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March 23, 2004
23
Mar'04
Qualcomm tunes into mobile multimedia
Qualcomm has unveiled a third-generation mobile data network infrastructure claimed to deliver streaming video to mobile phones...
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March 23, 2004
23
Mar'04
Texas to serve up 65-nanometer chips in 2005
Texas Instruments is to sample a wireless product built with its 65-nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process technology in...
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March 22, 2004
22
Mar'04
Swiss Army Knife packs a flash memory drive
Victorinox's Swiss Army Knives has added a flash memory drive to its list of tools.
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March 22, 2004
22
Mar'04
Via launches Nano-ITX motherboard
Via Technologies has introduced the EPIA-N Nano-ITX motherboard, the smallest PC motherboard form factor to hit the market so...
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March 22, 2004
22
Mar'04
Alcatel comms initiative aims to boost productivity
The lack of a reliable communication system could result in lower company productivity by delaying business transactions or...
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March 19, 2004
19
Mar'04
Intel and BMW unveils 'tomorrow's mobile office'
Intel and BMW have unveiled a prototype BMW 7 Series, which doubles as a mobile office at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover.
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March 19, 2004
19
Mar'04
HP ships business PCs preloaded with Linux
Hewlett-Packard has released business desktop PCs running Mandrake Linux. Neither of HP's big competitors - Dell and IBM - have...
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March 19, 2004
19
Mar'04
US files complaint over China chip taxes
The US has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisation regarding China's policy of levying VAT on imports of...
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March 19, 2004
19
Mar'04
AMD unveils Athlon FX-53
Advanced Micro Devices launched its most powerful desktop processor to date at the Cebit trade show in Hannover yesterday.
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March 19, 2004
19
Mar'04
HP's rugged notebooks can take a beating
Hewlett-Packard's first ruggedised notebook and Tablet PC are able to withstand those types of abuse by workers in demanding...
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March 18, 2004
18
Mar'04
O2 unveils 3G card for Germany
The German arm of mobile operator O2 will offer a mobile data card service based on WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple...
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March 18, 2004
18
Mar'04
Microsoft signs media player deals in Europe
Microsoft has reached content deals in Europe with EMI and Napster for handheld devices running Windows Mobile software for...
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March 18, 2004
18
Mar'04
Sony president opens CeBIT show
Sony's president opened the CeBIT trade show with a speech focusing on wireless data services and the convergence of computing,...
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March 17, 2004
17
Mar'04
Toshiba launches multimedia notebooks
Two new notebooks from Toshiba America Information Systems aim to address important segments of the notebook market with a Media...
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March 17, 2004
17
Mar'04
LG Electronics enters the notebook market
LG Electronics latest range of notebooks for the local market focuses on mobility and style. The local range includes the top-end...
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March 16, 2004
16
Mar'04
Diversinet wins Chinese mobile certificate deal
Mobile security technology company Diversinet is signing a deal to work with China's Guangdong Electronic Certification Authority...
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March 16, 2004
16
Mar'04
Microsoft says $40 XP will close 'digital divide'
Microsoft has stressed that a $40 version of Windows XP sold in Thailand is not a sign of pricing pressure from Linux.
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March 16, 2004
16
Mar'04
NetScout bundles server and Linux
NetScout Systems has bundled its nGenius network performance management software with Red Hat's Enterprise Linux server.
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March 15, 2004
15
Mar'04
More MPs back our call for action
Computer Weekly's campaign for openness and accountability on government IT projects received a further boost this week as more...
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March 15, 2004
15
Mar'04
Microsoft antitrust case will stay in California
A judge has denied Microsoft's request to move an antitrust lawsuit brought against it by RealNetworks from California to...
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March 15, 2004
15
Mar'04
Outage hits MSN Messenger and Hotmail
Many MSN Messenger and Hotmail users, as well as some MSN Internet Access customers, were unable to connect to these services for...
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March 15, 2004
15
Mar'04
Gateway completes eMachines acquisition
Gateway has completed its buyout of PC supplier eMachines, and has appointed eMachines chief executive officer Wayne Inouye its...
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March 12, 2004
12
Mar'04
IBM refreshes server line for smaller businesses
IBM has launched the latest versions of its Intel-based servers for small and medium-sized businesses.
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March 12, 2004
12
Mar'04
Network could save council money
Westminster Council believes that its wireless network could bring savings of millions of pounds a year by giving council staff...
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March 12, 2004
12
Mar'04
Disaster recovery software links via San
Novell's new disaster recovery technology, Business Continuity Cluster (BCC), is now available as a beta version.
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March 12, 2004
12
Mar'04
Novell to offer users a Windows experience on a Linux desktop
Microsoft's latest set of updates for Office XP is causing headaches for users of two junk mail filtering products.
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March 12, 2004
12
Mar'04
Gateway upgrades DVD wireless player
Gateway has upgraded its wireless DVD player, taking another step in its attempt to converge the consumer electronics and PC...
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March 12, 2004
12
Mar'04
HP unveils latest AMD notebooks
Hewlett-Packard will ship two notebooks which feature Advanced Micro Devices' Mobile Athlon 64 processor, as well as a previously...
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March 11, 2004
11
Mar'04
IT chiefs neglecting to offer laptop back-up
The majority of laptop users do not have their systems backed up to a corporate server, a survey conducted by research company...
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March 11, 2004
11
Mar'04
SGI boosts processors in Altix 3000
Silicon Graphics has begun shipping a 256-processor version of its Altix 3000 supercomputer, and the company is preparing a...
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March 11, 2004
11
Mar'04
Hitachi launches 400Gbyte media storage drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has launched a 3.5-inch hard disc drive with a capacity of 400Gbytes, which has been designed...
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March 11, 2004
11
Mar'04
PC shipments still robust to 2005
IDC has predicted that although worldwide PC shipments over the next two years are unlikely to match figures for 2003, the...
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March 10, 2004
10
Mar'04
HP unveils desktop PC ranges and models
Hewlett-Packard has introduced two desktop PCs for small business and enterprise customers, and reorganised its commercial PC...
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March 08, 2004
08
Mar'04
Cargill global upgrade plan
Global conglomerate Cargill is upgrading its IT infrastructure with 30,000 Dell servers, notebooks and laptops across 61...
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March 08, 2004
08
Mar'04
Input error crashes Co-op mortgage site
An error by a computer operator left 10,000 mortgage account holders at the Co-operative Bank without access to their accounts...
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March 08, 2004
08
Mar'04
UN encourages upgrade before buying new PC
A United Nations study, due to be published later today, has found that around 1.8 tons of raw material are required to...
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March 08, 2004
08
Mar'04
HP unveils blade and SME servers
Hewlett-Packard is announcing two new ProLiant servers, including a $499 system designed for small to medium-sized businesses,...
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March 08, 2004
08
Mar'04
Samsung joins semiconductor partnership
Samsung has entered into a technology development partnership with IBM to develop new ways of building processors to power its...
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March 05, 2004
05
Mar'04
Infrastructure must plan for terrorist threats
Companies responsible for critical infrastructure have been urged to take a more in-depth approach to contingency planning, and...
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March 05, 2004
05
Mar'04
Rainfinity virtualises NAS servers
Rainfinity has added automation capabilities to its RainStorage NAS management appliance, allowing it to plug into storage...
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March 05, 2004
05
Mar'04
Macromedia looks to extend Flash technology
Macromedia has a full agenda of improvements planned for its multimedia application development products, including...
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March 05, 2004
05
Mar'04
Ask Jeeves buys Interactive Search
Ask Jeeves will buy Interactive Search Holdings (ISH) for about $343m with the aim of doubling its search market share.
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March 05, 2004
05
Mar'04
Michael Dell steps down as CEO
Dell founder Michael Dell will relinquish his chief executive officer title to president and chief operating officer Kevin...
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March 05, 2004
05
Mar'04
US financial firm centralises with IBM
Fidelity National Financial has undertaken a four-year project to replace its distributed, multisupplier computing environment...
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March 04, 2004
04
Mar'04
Intel CTO to meet Chinese officials over Wlan security standard
Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger is to meet with Chinese government officials to discuss concerns over China's...
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March 04, 2004
04
Mar'04
IBM updates mainframe DB2
IBM is unveiling what it calls the most significant release so far of its DB2 database for mainframes, featuring more than 100...
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March 04, 2004
04
Mar'04
Acer releases low-cost mobile workstation
Acer has unveiled a notebook which claims to offer the performance of a workstation at a fraction of the cost of other...
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March 04, 2004
04
Mar'04
Earthlink to test sender authentication
Internet service provider Earthlink will soon begin testing new e-mail security technology.
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March 03, 2004
03
Mar'04
UMC opens second 300mm chip plant
United Microelectronics (UMC), the world's second-largest contract chip maker, announced its second chip fabrication plant to...
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March 03, 2004
03
Mar'04
Psion launches tough handheld
Psion Teklogix is using the money from selling its stake in the Symbian consortium to fund a heavy-duty wireless-enabled handheld...
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March 03, 2004
03
Mar'04
Printer chips allow for non-Lexmark cartridges
Static Control Components is selling three chips that allow third-party printer cartridges to work in printers from Lexmark...
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March 02, 2004
02
Mar'04
Nortel adds VoIP to WLan portfolio
Nortel Networks has unveiled handsets, access points, a switch and other products designed to extend wireless Lans to support...
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March 01, 2004
01
Mar'04
Don't expect computers to do too much, says IBM
IBM, the world's largest computer supplier, has warned private companies and public sector organisations not to expect computers...
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March 01, 2004
01
Mar'04
IBM and OnStar team up for voice apps
General Motor's OnStar subsidiary has chosen IBM to provide interactive speech technologies for its next-generation...
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March 01, 2004
01
Mar'04
Server demand continues to grow
Demand for servers grew worldwide for the third consecutive quarter as businesses continue to increase spending in IT equipment...
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February 27, 2004
27
Feb'04
Business users get mobile e-mail alternatives
Instant e-mail and voice conferencing were two of the most high-profile new technologies at 3GSM.
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February 27, 2004
27
Feb'04
IT can drive change in the business
Improving manufacturing processes by using product lifecycle management, supply chain optimisation and enhancing operational...
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February 26, 2004
26
Feb'04
IBM tops server market for 2003
IBM has extended its lead over Hewlett-Packard as the top supplier of servers in 2003, as its revenue share of the worldwide...
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February 25, 2004
25
Feb'04
Qualcomm to build DRM into WCDMA chipset
Qualcomm will build digital rights management (DRM) technology into its forthcoming chipsets in the hope of enticing content...
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February 25, 2004
25
Feb'04
Hitachi claims highest capacity enterprise drive
Hitachi has announced what is believed to be the highest capacity enterprise-class hard drive launched so far.
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February 24, 2004
24
Feb'04
UK firms pay price for rise in e-crime
As Whitehall delays its strategy to tackle computer crime, police figures show the rising cost to businesses
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February 24, 2004
24
Feb'04
Texas Instruments unveils multimedia Omap chips
Texas Instruments has introduced its latest generation of its Omap processors at the 3GSM World Congress, which will boost the...
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February 24, 2004
24
Feb'04
Infineon unveils carbon nanotube power chips
Researchers at Infineon Technologies have succeeded in their efforts to produce a prototype power transistor based on carbon...
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February 24, 2004
24
Feb'04
Dell unveils Prescott servers and switches
Dell will bolster its product roster for small and medium-sized businesses with servers supporting Intel's Prescott chip, plus a...
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February 23, 2004
23
Feb'04
Intel plays catch-up on hybrid 64-bit chips
Intel has unveiled plans to develop 64-bit extensions in future versions of its 32-bit Xeon server chip. The move follows its...
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February 23, 2004
23
Feb'04
Whitehall delays launch of national e-crime plan
E-crime minister Caroline Flint will use the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit's e-congress today to underline the government's...
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February 23, 2004
23
Feb'04
CW backs BCS awards
Computer Weekly is partnering with the British Computer Society for its prestigious annual IT Professional awards. The awards...
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February 23, 2004
23
Feb'04
Campaign gains all-party support
MPs from the three major political parties are supporting a campaign by Computer Weekly to reduce the number of IT-related...
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February 23, 2004
23
Feb'04
ROI on mobile devices not a big concern, say CIOs
Wireless technology and mobile workforces have become so ingrained in companies that return-on-investment concerns rarely become...
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February 23, 2004
23
Feb'04
IBM wins huge German mainframe contract
IBM will deliver 20 high-performance mainframe computers to a German financial IT service company in a deal worth more than...
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February 20, 2004
20
Feb'04
BEA boosts quarterly profit and revenue
BEA Systems increased its revenue and profits in its fourth quarter, citing strong sales of its WebLogic server software.
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February 20, 2004
20
Feb'04
Be prepared for the terabyte era, says Intel
The semiconductor industry will have to rethink many of the architectural approaches it has taken to build today's processors to...
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February 20, 2004
20
Feb'04
GoodLink software makes UK debut
Mobile synchronisation product GoodLink, which keeps PalmOne Treo 600 devices continually synchronised over wireless links, has...
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February 20, 2004
20
Feb'04
Hewlett-Packard turns in profit
Hewlett-Packard has reported first-quarter net income of $936m (£495m).
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February 19, 2004
19
Feb'04
PA-Risc wins stay of execution as HP begins migration to Itanium
With the launch of the PA8800, a new PA-Risc processor, Hewlett-Packard has extended the life of its HP9000 server by at least...
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February 19, 2004
19
Feb'04
HP lifts lid on mobile comms offerings
Hewlett-Packard has lifted the lid on a range of new communications products and services, including a system that unifies voice...
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February 19, 2004
19
Feb'04
Microsoft beta tests Virtual Server 2004
Microsoft has started a testing program for its Virtual Server 2004, a software product which allows users to run different...
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February 19, 2004
19
Feb'04
Intel releases more chip details
Intel offered more details yesterday about its Itanium processor family as well as its forthcoming mobile technologies.
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February 19, 2004
19
Feb'04
Intel promises 64-bit extensions technology
Intel's next-generation Xeon processor and future versions of the Prescott processors will come with 64-bit extensions...
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February 18, 2004
18
Feb'04
Sony Ericsson bundles RealPlayer
Media player company RealNetworks signed a deal to put its player on Sony Ericsson handsets.
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February 18, 2004
18
Feb'04
Cisco adopts global standard for ethernet ports
Cisco Systems is embracing a global standard for powering network-connected devices over ethernet, allowing its customers to take...
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February 18, 2004
18
Feb'04
Intel boosts the digital home
Intel has promised that future digital consumer products will be simple to install and offer more connections to the rest of the...
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February 17, 2004
17
Feb'04
Legislation is only way to stop central government IT disasters
Computer Weekly campaigns to enforce best practice in public sector project management.
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February 17, 2004
17
Feb'04
AMD unveils low-power Opterons
Advanced Micro Devices has released six Opteron processors designed for low-power applications such as blade servers and...