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• February 10, 2004 10 Feb'04

  Microsoft lets customers decide on software assurance programme

  Microsoft's customers will get to pass judgment on its software maintenance plan this year when their existing software assurance...

• February 10, 2004 10 Feb'04

  PC drives predicted to reach 600Gbytes by 2007

  The standard desktop PC of 2007 will have a hard disc drive with capacity between 500Gbytes and 600Gbytes, predicts Mark Geenen,...

• February 10, 2004 10 Feb'04

  German finance office opts for IBM mainframe

  The German Federal Finance Office in Berlin has replaced more than 30 smaller servers with one mainframe computer, IBM's eServer...

• February 10, 2004 10 Feb'04

  Intel prepares for future of computing

  Intel will talk about increasing mobility, the digital home, and the "tera era" of large data sets and complex applications at...

• February 10, 2004 10 Feb'04

  Microsoft faces trial over 'autoplay' feature

  Microsoft faces a trial in a patent infringement suit over the "autoplay" feature in Windows that automatically starts an...

• February 10, 2004 10 Feb'04

  HP promises slow transition to Itanium

  Hewlett-Packard has promised users that it would not move them abruptly to Itanium and has released a PA-Risc chip claimed to...

• February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04

  More questions and answers from SAN School lesson # 5

  Here are additional questions and answers from SAN School Lesson 5: Designing a SAN. The questions cover topics ranging from how to determine an effective SAN design to meet your needs, to the differences between fabric switches and loop switches.

• February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04

  Faster 32-bit offers more than hybrid chip

  Intel is likely to use its developers' forum next week to unveil plans for a 32/64-bit hybrid chip codenamed "Yamhill", mirroring...

• February 06, 2004 06 Feb'04

  Mobile phone sales strong in 2004, says Gartner

  The worldwide mobile handset market continues to beat expectations and could exceed 510 million units in 2003, according to...

• February 06, 2004 06 Feb'04

  Samsung develops satellite TV-receiving mobile phone ahead of broadcast service launch

  Samsung is planning a mobile telephone that can receive multimedia programming broadcasts via satellite.

• February 06, 2004 06 Feb'04

  Gateway launches services through resellers

  Gateway's latest programme to sell services through its network of resellers aims to address the needs of its business customers...

• February 05, 2004 05 Feb'04

  MS releases public Windows XP beta for Athlon 64

  Microsoft has made a beta version of Windows XP available to the public which runs on desktops or workstations using Advanced...

• February 04, 2004 04 Feb'04

  Seagate launches latest hard drive for server and storage consolidation

  Seagate Technology will launch its Small Form Factor (SFF) hard drive aimed at server and storage consolidation.

• February 04, 2004 04 Feb'04

  IBM launches Thinkpad X40 in US

  IBM is to bring the ThinkPad X40 notebook to US customers next week.

• February 03, 2004 03 Feb'04

  Industry group updates digital media spec

  Industry group the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has launched version 2.0 of its Digital Rights Management (DRM) specification to...

• February 02, 2004 02 Feb'04

  Gateway to acquire eMachines

  Gateway will acquire eMachines for about $200m (£110m) to bolster its shrinking PC revenue while it pursues the consumer...

• February 02, 2004 02 Feb'04

  Intel to preview 64-bit processor to rival Opteron

  Intel is to demonstrate a processor with 64-bit extensions during the upcoming Intel Developer Forum, confirming speculation that...

• February 02, 2004 02 Feb'04

  Raytheon/Nasa San backs up Mars data

  A storage area network developed by Nasa in conjunction with Raytheon is collecting data sent back from the Spirit and...

• February 02, 2004 02 Feb'04

  Intel's Prescott first in 90-nanometer race

  Intel has released four processors based on its 90-nanometer Prescott core, the first major revision to its Pentium 4 processor...

• January 30, 2004 30 Jan'04

  Gates holds to line on public sector pricing

  "This is the decade when IT will change the productivity of the economy," said Bill Gates in London last week, when he met...

• January 29, 2004 29 Jan'04

  Corporate spending pushes server shipments up

  Increased corporate spending and seasonal growth pushed worldwide shipments of server computers to 1.6 million in the final...

• January 29, 2004 29 Jan'04

  IBM takes steps towards on-demand vision

  IBM has rolled out an IT service which helps corporate users remotely automate and manage datacentres made up of a patchwork of...

• January 28, 2004 28 Jan'04

  Microsoft ISA Server 2004 released as public beta

  Microsoft has released a public beta version of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004.

• January 28, 2004 28 Jan'04

  IBM Lotus customers remain wary of Workplace

  IBM Lotus users have cautiously welcomed the first Workplace products unveiled at the Lotusphere show in Florida.

• January 28, 2004 28 Jan'04

  Sun prepares second version of Java desktop

  Sun Microsystems is to release the second version of its Java Desktop System, featuring new tools for centralised management of...

• January 28, 2004 28 Jan'04

  WTO investigates South Korean claims of unfair trade barriers

  South Korea's claims that the US and the European Union imposed unfair trade barriers on sales of Korean memory chips are to be...

• January 28, 2004 28 Jan'04

  Handheld shipments fall in 2003

  Worldwide shipments of handheld devices for 2003 were about two million units shy of the shipment total posted in 2002 as users...

• January 28, 2004 28 Jan'04

  Leicester City builds strong e-mail defence

  Premiership club Leicester City struggled to maintain secure network management practices until it discovered e-mail security...

• January 27, 2004 27 Jan'04

  Atheros creates single-chip 802.11g product

  Atheros Communications is to release a single-chip 802.11g product in the second quarter claimed to reduce the cost of placing...

• January 27, 2004 27 Jan'04

  Microsoft launches search toolbar

  Microsoft's MSN Internet division has developed a search toolbar that users can add to their web browsers via a free download.

• January 27, 2004 27 Jan'04

  Westcon boosts broadband wireless offering

  Datatec’s Westcon Group, a global channel provider of networking technology products, has expanded its wireless portfolio...

• January 27, 2004 27 Jan'04

  Intel outlines broadband wireless vision

  Broadband wireless technologies will help bring the next five billion users to the internet, claimed an Intel executive at the...

• January 26, 2004 26 Jan'04

  Computer Associates unveils latest version of ARCserve Backup

  Computer Associates International is releasing the latest version of its Brightstor ARCserv Backup software, which aims to speed...

• January 26, 2004 26 Jan'04

  Kyocera recalls explosive mobile phone batteries

  Kyocera Wireless is recalling mobile phone batteries used in one of its smartphones after discovering the batteries can explode.

• January 26, 2004 26 Jan'04

  Move RealNetworks antitrust suit to Washington state, says Microsoft

  Microsoft has asked a judge to move an antitrust suit filed by RealNetworks from California to Washington state, where both...

• January 23, 2004 23 Jan'04

  AMD develops hardware fix to target major XP security risk

  AMD is developing technology in the next generation of x86-compatible microprocessors to combat one of the largest security...

• January 23, 2004 23 Jan'04

  Enterprise users targeted for desktop Linux

  Corporate IT directors were the prime targets of suppliers at the LinuxWorld conference in New York last week.

• January 23, 2004 23 Jan'04

  TCO not SCO will decide fate of users' Linux deployment plans

  Users seek to rely on indemnities to protect them from SCO pressure as suppliers press the case for Linux on the desktop

• January 22, 2004 22 Jan'04

  Dell fixes smoking PowerEdge servers

  Dell is warning users of its PowerEdge 1650 servers of a defect that could cause the systems to overheat, emit smoke and shut...

• January 22, 2004 22 Jan'04

  EMEA sales boost PC shipments

  The surge in PC shipments in the fourth-quarter of 2003 has highlighted the importance of sales in Europe, the Middle East and...

• January 22, 2004 22 Jan'04

  Toshiba squeezes more chips into standard package

  Toshiba has developed new chip production technology which increases the number of layers of components that can be crammed...

• January 21, 2004 21 Jan'04

  SuSE and IBM gain higher security ceritification

  SuSE Linux and IBM say they have achieved a more rigorous security certification for Linux operating system software running on...

• January 21, 2004 21 Jan'04

  Texas mobile phone chipset moves closer to Edge

  Texas Instruments has announced its first chipset for Edge (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) networks, a stepping stone on...

• January 21, 2004 21 Jan'04

  Sun acquires Nauticus to boost its blade servers

  Sun Microsystems will acquire Nauticus Networks, a maker of content switches for the datacentre, in a move aimed at boosting its...

• January 21, 2004 21 Jan'04

  AMD revenue growth pushes company back into profitability

  Advanced Micro Devices has reported strong revenue growth bringing the company back to profitability in the fourth quarter.

• January 20, 2004 20 Jan'04

  Infineon remains profitable despite drop in sales

  Infineon Technologies reported first-quarter revenue of €1.6bn, up 13% year-on-year but down 8% compared with the previous...

• January 19, 2004 19 Jan'04

  MyTravel IT issues contribute to losses

  The failure of holiday company MyTravel to align its business processes to new IT systems contributed to a record £911m pre-tax...

• January 19, 2004 19 Jan'04

  California start-up claims fuel cell breakthrough

  A California start-up company has claimed that its direct methanol fuel cell membrane will make the cells - envisaged as a future...

• January 19, 2004 19 Jan'04

  Intel still lags in Wi-Fi race despite chip launch

  Intel introduced the third version of its Centrino Wi-Fi chip set last week, but it still runs at least a generation behind...

• January 16, 2004 16 Jan'04

  Nokia plans US launch of Edge phone

  Nokia will deliver of its first smart phone in the US in the second quarter of this year.

• January 16, 2004 16 Jan'04

  Intel delays Dothan chip launch

  Notebook buyers will have to wait until the second quarter for Dothan, Intel's 90-nanometer version of its Pentium M chip.

• January 16, 2004 16 Jan'04

  Intel's fourth-quarter revenue hits $8.74bn

  Intel's fourth-quarter revenue hits a record high of $8.74bn, slightly more than the previous record for the third quarter of...

• January 16, 2004 16 Jan'04

  Forward planning boosts IBM's quarterly income

  IBM has reported net income of $2.7bn for its 2003 fourth quarter, up from $1bn for the same period in 2002.

• January 16, 2004 16 Jan'04

  Sun's McNealy upbeat despite net loss of $125m

  Sun Microsystems has reported a net loss of $125m for the second quarter of its 2004 financial year.

• January 15, 2004 15 Jan'04

  Resource guide to disk-based backup

• January 15, 2004 15 Jan'04

  Dell Axim X3 PDA armed with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

  Dell's Axim X3 personal digital assistant has both a Bluetooth and an 802.11b chip.

• January 15, 2004 15 Jan'04

  iPod sales drive strong quarter for Apple

  Apple Computer has posted revenue $2bn for its first quarter of 2004, its highest quarterly revenue in four years.

• January 14, 2004 14 Jan'04

  Microsoft releases 32-bit Itanium software

  Intel and Microsoft have released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit...

• January 14, 2004 14 Jan'04

  IBM to resell Infiniband switch

  IBM has signed a five-year agreement to resell an InfiniBand switch as a high-speed I/O interconnect for its servers and storage.

• January 14, 2004 14 Jan'04

  Matshushita ploughs £653m into chip facility

  Matsushita is investing ¥130bn (£653m) to build a semiconductor facility to make chips for DVDs, digital TVs, mobile...

• January 14, 2004 14 Jan'04

  Orange first to offer Europe push-to-talk service

  Orange is poised to become the first mobile operator in Europe to offer a commercial push-to-talk service similar to the...

• January 13, 2004 13 Jan'04

  Dell releases Latitude D505 notebook

  Dell has rolled out the Latitude D505, the latest edition to its line of laptops designed for mobile business users.

• January 12, 2004 12 Jan'04

  More vulnerabilities found in Linux kernel

  Linux distributors Red Hat and Guardian Digital and open source developers rushed out a new version of the Linux kernel last...

• January 12, 2004 12 Jan'04

  Disc failure cripples cashpoints

  Halifax customers were unable to use cash machines last week following a disc failure on one of the bank's servers.

• January 12, 2004 12 Jan'04

  SGI takes Altix Itanium server to midrange

  Silicon Graphics is to ship a smaller member of its Altix family of technical computing servers, called the Altix 350.

• January 12, 2004 12 Jan'04

  HP and Dell get behind Blu-ray format

  Hewlett-Packard and Dell have announced support for the Blu-ray Disc format which is being standardised by a group of 10...

• January 12, 2004 12 Jan'04

  Put Linux on Big Blue's desktops, says IBM CEO

  IBM chairman and chief executive officer Sam Palmisano has challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop over the next two...

• January 09, 2004 09 Jan'04

  HP partners with Apple to sell its own iPod

  Hewlett-Packard will release a digital music player later this year based on Apple Computer's iPod, the companies announced at...

• January 09, 2004 09 Jan'04

  HP's Fiorina reinforces piracy stance

  Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina told visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that HP is determined to help stamp...

• January 09, 2004 09 Jan'04

  Toshiba claims smallest hard drive yet

  Toshiba has unveiled a prototype hard-disc drive that is smaller than any on the market, and it could start appearing in devices...

• January 09, 2004 09 Jan'04

  Intel steps into consumer arena

  Intel president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini revealed details of his company's plans to enter the digital TV market...

• January 08, 2004 08 Jan'04

  Gates envisions wireless home entertainment

  Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates has presented a host of consumer-oriented technologies at the Consumer...

• January 08, 2004 08 Jan'04

  Digital imaging market set to explode, say experts

  The digital imaging market will explode in 2004, but the technologies need to overcome a number of hurdles to become more widely...

• January 08, 2004 08 Jan'04

  Napster Burnpak encroaches on Apple's digital music dominance

  Napster told visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that will take on Apple's iPod and iTunes next month with the...

• January 07, 2004 07 Jan'04

  Sybase bolsters Apple's Panther

  Sybase has unveiled the next version of Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 12.5.1 at the MacWorld Conference & Expo in San...

• January 07, 2004 07 Jan'04

  Apple unveils dual G5 Xserve

  Apple Computer has unveiled three latest models of its Xserve with 2GHz, G5 processors from IBM at its core at the MacWorld...

• January 07, 2004 07 Jan'04

  Apple debuts iPod mini and GarageBand software

  Apple Computer's chief executive officer Steve Jobs unveiled a slimmed-down companion to its popular iPod portable music player...

• January 06, 2004 06 Jan'04

  Via aims for 2GHz processors

  Taiwanese chip supplier Via Technologies is to increase the speed of its processors to 2GHz.

• January 06, 2004 06 Jan'04

  Transmeta shrinks Crusoe processor

  Transmeta is launching two new Crusoe processors which are half the size of previous Crusoe products, aimed at mobile and...

• January 06, 2004 06 Jan'04

  Intel launches Celeron M chip line

  Intel has launched three Celeron chips for budget notebooks.

• January 05, 2004 05 Jan'04

  Sun buries Cobalt server line

  Sun Microsystems discontinued its Cobalt server appliance line with a quiet announcement over the holiday period.

• December 19, 2003 19 Dec'03

  Palm and RIM plan BlackBerry integration

  PalmSource and Research In Motion are to develop a software client that will enable RIM's BlackBerry handhelds to connect to the...

• December 19, 2003 19 Dec'03

  Revenue boost for PalmOne

  Higher average selling prices for PDAs personal digital assistants and smartphones helped boost second-quarter revenue at...

• December 19, 2003 19 Dec'03

  US demands compensation from hacker

  The United States is demanding £21,000 compensation from a teenage hacker who infiltrated computer systems at a US government...

• December 19, 2003 19 Dec'03

  Citrix buys GoToMyPC maker for $225m

  Remote access software maker Citrix Systems will buy web-based desktop access developer Expertcity in a $225m cash and stock...

• December 18, 2003 18 Dec'03

  Microsoft plans Windows 2000 Server retirement

  From 1 April 2006, Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server family will no longer be available.

• December 18, 2003 18 Dec'03

  Icann approves user community groups

  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved six community user groups in three regions.

• December 18, 2003 18 Dec'03

  Fujitsu unveils Itanium 2 and Opteron systems

  Fujitsu Computer Systems will begin shipping its first Itanium 2 server next month.

• December 18, 2003 18 Dec'03

  Sun shines again in high-performance market

  Sun Microsystems has nearly doubled unit shipments of its servers for the quarter and achieved 99.7% growth and its market share...

• December 17, 2003 17 Dec'03

  BMC acquires help desk supplier

  BMC Software has entered into an agreement with Network Associates to purchase the assets of its Magic Solutions division for...

• December 17, 2003 17 Dec'03

  IBM and Harvard develop Crimson Grid

  Harvard University and IBM are developing a universitywide computing grid for student and faculty research, data sharing and...

• December 17, 2003 17 Dec'03

  HP adds 2.5-in drives to servers

  Hewlett-Packard is to ship 2.5-inch disc drives with enterprise-class features in its ProLiant servers next year and will add the...

• December 16, 2003 16 Dec'03

  Toshiba creates coin-sized hard-disc drive

  Toshiba is to begin sample production next year of a coin-sized hard-disc drive that can hold up to 3Gbytes of data.

• December 16, 2003 16 Dec'03

  Server companies launch management initiative

  Intel, Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard are to work with an industry organisation to standardise the way servers are managed.

• December 15, 2003 15 Dec'03

  Texas Instruments prepares 90-nanometer chip

  Texas Instruments is to release samples of its latest OMAP chip, which will also be the company's first 90-nanometer chip, in the...

• December 12, 2003 12 Dec'03

  AMD joins forces with Chinese chip designer for thin clients

  Advanced Micro Devices has teamed up with Chinese CPU designer BLX IC Design to develop thin-client computers based on...

• December 11, 2003 11 Dec'03

  Hitachi plans fuel cell for handhelds by 2005

  Hitachi has co-developed a prototype direct methanol fuel cell for use in mobile electronics products and intends to launch the...

• December 11, 2003 11 Dec'03

  Toshiba and Sony prepare for semiconductor trial

  Toshiba and Sony are close to beginning trial production of semiconductor chips using a manufacturing process more advanced than...

• December 11, 2003 11 Dec'03

  Intel combines comms groups

  Intel is to combine its communications businesses into a single unit with the aim of improving long-term growth prospects.

• December 10, 2003 10 Dec'03

  Texas Instruments validates transistor material

  Texas Instruments claims to have proved that the material it will use as the gate dielectric in its future transistors is both...