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Data centre hardware
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December 18, 2003
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Dec'03
Microsoft plans Windows 2000 Server retirement
From 1 April 2006, Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server family will no longer be available.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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December 16, 2003
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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December 01, 2003
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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...
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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...
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November 28, 2003
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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.
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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...
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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...
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November 26, 2003
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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.
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November 25, 2003
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Nov'03
Sharp launches enterprise Linux PDA
Sharp has announced its first Linux-based Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant) for the corporate market.
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November 25, 2003
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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...
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November 24, 2003
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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...
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November 24, 2003
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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...
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November 21, 2003
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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.
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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...
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November 21, 2003
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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...
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November 21, 2003
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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...
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November 21, 2003
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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.
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November 20, 2003
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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...
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November 20, 2003
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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...
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November 19, 2003
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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...
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November 18, 2003
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Nov'03
Hitachi and Casio merge mobile phone venture
Hitachi and Casio Computer announced they will merge large parts of their mobile handset operations.
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November 18, 2003
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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...
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November 18, 2003
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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...
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November 18, 2003
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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...
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November 18, 2003
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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November 17, 2003
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Nov'03
Intel creates programme to simplify supercomputers
Intel has created a $36m (£21m) programme to research new ways of simplifying supercomputers.
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November 17, 2003
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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November 17, 2003
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Nov'03
Sun prepares to unveil Opteron-based servers
Sun Microsystems is to build servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip.
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November 14, 2003
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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...
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November 14, 2003
14
Nov'03
Nokia steps up fake battery fight
Nokia is to take "aggressive, regional anti-counterfeit measures".
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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...
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November 13, 2003
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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,...
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November 13, 2003
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Nov'03
Dell tools improve Microsoft integration
Dell has unveiled three additions to its OpenManage line of system management tools.
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November 13, 2003
13
Nov'03
Xandros delivers Linux desktop
Xandros has unveiled an enhanced version of its Linux-compatible graphical environment.
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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.
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November 11, 2003
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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,...
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November 11, 2003
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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...
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November 11, 2003
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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...
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November 10, 2003
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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...
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November 07, 2003
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Thin-film research could lead to flexible displays and cheaper motherboards
Dundee University breakthrough could slash production costs.
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November 07, 2003
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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
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November 07, 2003
07
Nov'03
Virus writers dismiss Microsoft bounty fund
Micrsoft hopes hackers will think twice
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November 07, 2003
07
Nov'03
HP targets emerging markets
SOMA will help small retailers manage their businesses
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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...
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November 07, 2003
07
Nov'03
Nokia shows IPv6 phone in Asia
Nokia says prototype is a world first
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November 07, 2003
07
Nov'03
Linux kernel attack thwarted
Compromise detected and corrected within 12 hours
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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
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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'...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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October 31, 2003
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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...
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October 31, 2003
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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,...
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October 31, 2003
31
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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.
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October 30, 2003
30
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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...
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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...
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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.