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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...
December 10, 2003 10 Dec'03
Microsoft calls time on older products as part of Java settlement

Microsoft will stop distributing several older products next week as a result of a legal settlement with Sun Microsystems in a...
December 09, 2003 09 Dec'03
Oasis elects IBM, Nokia and Oracle staff to board

Representatives from Nokia, Oracle and IBM have joined the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards'...
December 08, 2003 08 Dec'03
Sun to increase R&D spend by 10% in 2004

Sun's hardware sector will increase its research and development spending by 10% to £1.2bn over the next 12 months Sun's...
December 08, 2003 08 Dec'03
HP to offer thin-client computing in UK

Hewlett-Packard is to offer users a thin-client computing architecture to simplify desktop IT infrastructure as part of a revamp...
December 08, 2003 08 Dec'03
Motorola blames phone shortages on camera components

Motorola has been unable to keep up with demand for its latest line of integrated camera phones because of component sourcing...
December 08, 2003 08 Dec'03
NEC recalls 170,000 laser printers

NEC is recalling about 170,000 monochrome laser printers, most of which were sold in Japan, because of an overheating problem...
December 08, 2003 08 Dec'03
NEC develops smallest transistor

Engineers at NEC have developed the world's smallest transistor with a gate length of five nanometers.
December 05, 2003 05 Dec'03
AOL offers $300 PC with one-year subscription

America Online (AOL) is selling a cheap PC in a bid to boost its shrinking user base with a one-year commitment to AOL's Internet...
December 05, 2003 05 Dec'03
Dell certifies Red Flag PowerEdge servers

Dell has begun selling Red Flag Software's Linux distribution on most models of its PowerEdge servers in China.
December 05, 2003 05 Dec'03
Intel narrows financial outlook for quarter

Intel narrowed its previous guidance for fourth-quarter revenue this week on the strength of its microprocessor business, but...
December 05, 2003 05 Dec'03
Sun strives to bring Linux to the desktop

Sun Microsystems has rolled out its first Linux-based desktop software and is working to secure deals with governments and...
December 04, 2003 04 Dec'03
HP uses Transmeta for blade PCs

Hewlett-Packard will begin shipping blade PC systems using Transmeta Efficeon processors beginning in March 2004. HP will also...
December 03, 2003 03 Dec'03
Motion adds Celeron to low-cost Tablet PC

Motion Computing has boosted the performance of its entry-level slate Tablet PC with an upgraded processor.
December 03, 2003 03 Dec'03
Toshiba and SanDisk advance flash memory production schedule

Toshiba and SanDisk are to advance their schedule for opening a flash-memory production line in Japan by approximately one year...
December 03, 2003 03 Dec'03
Microsoft blog service targets tech-savvy youth

Microsoft has launched TheSpoke, a web logging service aimed at people in their teens and 20s.
December 03, 2003 03 Dec'03
Sun unveils its first AMD blade

Sun Microsystems is to unveil the first product from its partnership with Advanced Micro Devices today - a blade server based on...
December 02, 2003 02 Dec'03
Analog Devices settles modem technology lawsuit

A California inventor of a standard for dial-up modem technology has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Analog Devices...
December 02, 2003 02 Dec'03
Sun must shed light on cost strategy, say analysts

Analysts have signalled that Sun Microsystems needs to shed light on how its low-cost turnaround strategy fits in with an...
December 01, 2003 01 Dec'03
Dundee picks Linux to cut back-office costs

Dundee City Council has standardised on Linux for its back-office systems, as part of a drive to increase efficiency and lower...
December 01, 2003 01 Dec'03
Sendo unveils smartphone

UK mobile phone developer Sendo has become the latest company to announce a one-piece smartphone designed to meet all of a...
November 28, 2003 28 Nov'03
Samsung unveils 57-inch TFT LCD panel

Samsung Electronics has developed a 57-inch liquid crystal display panel, claimed to be the largest such panel in the world.
November 28, 2003 28 Nov'03
Broken transatlantic cable still disrupting internet traffic

Users may still be suffering internet traffic problems as a result of a broken transatlantic optical cable that went down earlier...
November 26, 2003 26 Nov'03
Fresh Blackberry arrives in UK

Research In Motion has launched its latest BlackBerry wireless e-mail device in the UK through mmO2, hoping to tempt the European...
November 26, 2003 26 Nov'03
Cautious optimism as server market shows growth

The worldwide server market is growing again after two years of contraction, according to the latest figures from IDC.
November 25, 2003 25 Nov'03
Sharp launches enterprise Linux PDA

Sharp has announced its first Linux-based Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant) for the corporate market.
November 25, 2003 25 Nov'03
Intel shows off 65-nanometer memory cells

Intel has demonstrated working SRAM (static RAM) chips with transistors built using the company's 65-nanometer process...
November 24, 2003 24 Nov'03
Dell claims 25% saving on services

Dell launched its Professional Services arm in the UK last week, promising 25% savings on prices offered by traditional service...
November 24, 2003 24 Nov'03
Government quizzed over problems at CSA

The government has faced questions on the floor of the House of Commons about disclosures made in Computer Weekly last week about...
November 21, 2003 21 Nov'03
AMD to build £1.4bn chip plant in Germany

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is building a $2.4bn (£1.4bn) microprocessor manufacturing facility, or fab, in Dresden.
November 21, 2003 21 Nov'03
Bull strives to secure financial future

Bull, a French supplier of servers and IT services, aims to return the company to financial health by bringing in new capital and...
November 21, 2003 21 Nov'03
Intel looks to emerging markets for 2004

Shipments of Prescott, the 90-nanometer successor to intel's Pentium 4, will account for 60% of all Intel desktop processors by...
November 21, 2003 21 Nov'03
Wireless leads the way, says PalmSource CEO

Palmsource's chief executive argued in his keynote address at Comdex in Las Vegas that many of obstacles to wirelessly connected...
November 21, 2003 21 Nov'03
HP adds Xeon processors to BL20p blade

Hewlett-Packard is now shipping Xeon versions of its two year-old ProLiant BL20p blade servers.
November 20, 2003 20 Nov'03
Sun plans open-source app server

Sun Microsystems may offer versions of its application server and Web server under an open source licence, said Jonathan...
November 20, 2003 20 Nov'03
AT&T unveils Edge network

AT&T Wireless Services has launched a high-speed cellular network that will provide average data speeds of between 100Kbps and...
November 19, 2003 19 Nov'03
Sun and JBoss forge Java agreement

Sun Microsystems has officially released the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 specification and has also provided the JBoss...
November 18, 2003 18 Nov'03
Hitachi and Casio merge mobile phone venture

Hitachi and Casio Computer announced they will merge large parts of their mobile handset operations.
November 18, 2003 18 Nov'03
SGI looks to supercomputer of the future

Silicon Graphics hopes to reinvent its large multiprocessor supercomputers as high-performance machines that can take advantage...
November 18, 2003 18 Nov'03
Sun to ship Opteron servers in 2004

Sun Microsystems plans is ship two servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) Opteron processors next year, Sun's chief...
November 18, 2003 18 Nov'03
ViewSonic and Toshiba refresh Tablet PCs

ViewSonic and Toshiba are both using the Comdex trade show to launch new Tablet PCs, advancing a relatively new type of computer...
November 18, 2003 18 Nov'03
JBoss offers indemnification to users

JBoss Group, the creator of JBoss, an open-source J2EE application server, is to offer indemnification for users who buy its...
November 18, 2003 18 Nov'03
Adobe takes Acrobat Elements to the server

Adobe Systems has announced Acrobat Elements Server 6.0, a product aimed at enterprises that removes the need for desktop...
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Itanium 2 Montecito to be multithreaded

Intel is to introduce multithreading and 24Mbyte on-chip caches to its Itanium 2 processor family.
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Banks question the viability of Blunkett's biometric ID card plan

UK banks and building societies have questioned the reliability of biometric technology underpinning government plans for a...
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Parents lose out as CSA struggles to migrate data

Child Support Agency is overwhelmed by task of moving to new system.
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Intel creates programme to simplify supercomputers

Intel has created a $36m (£21m) programme to research new ways of simplifying supercomputers.
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Apple cluster ranks third in supercomputer list

A computer cluster consisting of 1,100 Apple Computer Power Mac G5 desktops connected together in a matter of weeks by Virginia...
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
IBM builds TV-sized supercomputer

IBM has built a 512-node prototype of its Blue Gene L supercomputer that has been ranked as the 73rd most powerful computer in...
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Dell meets quarterly earnings expectations

Dell has posted a 16% gain in third-quarter revenue, cracking the $10bn barrier on strong server and storage device shipments.
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Microsoft builds spam filters into Exchange

Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates used his keynote address yesterday at the annual Comdex 2003 trade...
November 17, 2003 17 Nov'03
Sun prepares to unveil Opteron-based servers

Sun Microsystems is to build servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip.
November 14, 2003 14 Nov'03
MyTunes software overrides iTunes anti-piracy feature

A US programmer has developed a software tool which allows users to download shared music files using the Windows version of...
November 14, 2003 14 Nov'03
Nokia steps up fake battery fight

Nokia is to take "aggressive, regional anti-counterfeit measures".
November 14, 2003 14 Nov'03
IBM unveils first 64-bit blade server

IBM will unveil a line of low-power blade servers based on the same 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor that Apple Computer uses in its...
November 13, 2003 13 Nov'03
Nokia claims first with 'walkie-talkie' GSM phone

Nokia has unveiled its first handset with a "walkie-talkie" or "push-to-talk" feature at its Mobility Conference in New York,...
November 13, 2003 13 Nov'03
Dell tools improve Microsoft integration

Dell has unveiled three additions to its OpenManage line of system management tools.
November 13, 2003 13 Nov'03
Xandros delivers Linux desktop

Xandros has unveiled an enhanced version of its Linux-compatible graphical environment.
November 12, 2003 12 Nov'03
Sony unveils 'Extreme' Vaio

Sony has claimed that the latest version of its 505-series notebook computer is the world's lightest and thinnest of its type.
November 11, 2003 11 Nov'03
Toshiba to double 1.8in hard disc drive production

Toshiba is to double production of its PC Card-size 1.8in hard disc drive and is considering entering the 1in drive market,...
November 11, 2003 11 Nov'03
IBM adds midrange server to Itanium line

IBM will add a second Itanium 2 server to its xSeries product line, which is claimed to be the first Itanium server to scale from...
November 11, 2003 11 Nov'03
Microsoft sets low price for Virtual PC 2004

Microsoft has priced its Virtual PC 2004 at $129 (£77), and developers will get the virtualisation product as part of their...
November 10, 2003 10 Nov'03
IBM works on 'componentised' app server

IBM is working on a componentised version of WebSphere that will enable users to mix and match functions from across IBM's...
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
Thin-film research could lead to flexible displays and cheaper motherboards

Dundee University breakthrough could slash production costs.
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
Novell's acquisition of SuSE set to improve support and services for open source users

Novell's takeover of SuSE could drive Linux adoption and be good for users
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
Virus writers dismiss Microsoft bounty fund

Micrsoft hopes hackers will think twice
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
HP targets emerging markets

SOMA will help small retailers manage their businesses
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
IBM builds big on service-oriented architectures

IBM is backing key industry standards for web services security that will better enable its products to fully embrace...
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
Nokia shows IPv6 phone in Asia

Nokia says prototype is a world first
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
Linux kernel attack thwarted

Compromise detected and corrected within 12 hours
November 07, 2003 07 Nov'03
IBM heads towards next generation of app servers

Now, says IBM, corporate users will be able to mix and match components
November 06, 2003 06 Nov'03
Borland exec questions Sun's head-to-head competition with Microsoft

Borland Software president and chief executive officer Dale Fuller is not optimistic about partner company Sun Microsystems'...
November 06, 2003 06 Nov'03
No diversification plans into enterprise market, say Nokia

Nokia has no plans to diversify into end-to-end enterprise networking products - at least, not yet, said its chief executive...
November 06, 2003 06 Nov'03
Oracle envisions trans-datacentre grids

Oracle has started to deploy grid computing technology within the enterprise as a precursor to trans-datacentre grids.
November 05, 2003 05 Nov'03
Intel increases market share over AMD

Intel has increased its market share over AMD, despite both companies reporting a rise in shipments, according to data from...
November 04, 2003 04 Nov'03
Microsoft unveils Voice Command technology

Microsoft has introduced voice-controlled software for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Pocket PC Phone Edition.
November 03, 2003 03 Nov'03
Neopost joins MS roll-out

Neopost, which sells franking machines and mailroom products worldwide, has rolled out Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Server 2003 as...
November 03, 2003 03 Nov'03
Wireless SIG will prepare for next wave

A BCS specialist group on wireless IT has been formed to cater for researchers and companies interested in this field.
November 03, 2003 03 Nov'03
Motorola's launches Linux-based phone with Intel chip

Motorola has launched its long-awaited mobile phone featuring both a Linux-based operating system and chips from Intel.
November 03, 2003 03 Nov'03
HP leads server race as quarterly shipments soar

Server shipments grew 20% in the third quarter compared with the same period as last year, said Gartner, as the industry rebounds...
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Cray's Red Storm goes commercial

Cray plans to release a commercial system based on its Red Storm supercomputer at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque...
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Buy now, PC users told

Users can pick up good deals on desktop and notebook PCs following price cuts of up to 35% on processors from Intel and AMD,...
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme to launch Monday

Intel is to launch its new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor on Monday, a source familiar with Intel's plans claimed.
October 30, 2003 30 Oct'03
Quantum computing breakthrough for Japan team

A research team in Japan claims it has demonstrated successfully in a solid-state device one of the two basic building blocks...
October 30, 2003 30 Oct'03
Copyright ruling weakens Lexmark cartridge case

A ruling this week from the US Copyright Office could strengthen manufacturer Static Control Components' defence against a...
October 30, 2003 30 Oct'03
Shareholders approve Palm's Handspring buy

Shareholders have approved Palm's purchase of Handspring, allowing the handheld makers to merge under the name of PalmOne.