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September 16, 2003 16 Sep'03
US server market will bounce back, says IDC

The US server market is poised to recover this year after a three-year slump, partly as a result of a migration toward...
September 16, 2003 16 Sep'03
Orange and AT&T to offer Windows phones

Motorola and Microsoft have launched a clamshell mobile phone, based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone software.
September 16, 2003 16 Sep'03
Child protection plan faces IT difficulties

Local authorities and other bodies face severe technical difficulties in meeting government demands that they share information...
September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
BCS sponsors scouts badge in IT

The BCS hopes to improve IT skills and the image of IT among young people through the sponsorship of a new badge for the 500,000...

September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
HP's Fiorina stresses grid challenges

Hewlett-Packard chairman and chief executive officer Carly Fiorina has stressed that challenges must be met for computing grids...
September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
Office 2003 due for early release

Select Microsoft customers will have early access to several of the latest Office System products.
September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
IBM supercomputers to help fight skin cancer

Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS) will be the first life sciences company to use on-demand supercomputing power from IBM to analyse...
September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
Oracle users in no hurry to embrace grid computing strategy

Oracle's grid computing strategy may have grabbed the attention of users, although several admitted it would be some time before...
September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
Intel stalls Centrino combination chip launch

Intel has warned that the combination wireless version of its Centrino chip will be delayed because testing and validation of the...
September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
Online retailers detail latest PDA plans from Palm and Toshiba

Amazon.com has published details of two as-yet unannounced models from Toshiba.

September 12, 2003 12 Sep'03
Sharp shows off notebook with 3D display

Sharp has unveiled a notebook computer with a display that gives the illusion of depth and can display objects in three...
September 10, 2003 10 Sep'03
IBM combines two semiconductor manufacturing techniques for fast transistors

By combining two semiconductor manufacturing techniques, IBM hopes to improve transistor performance by about half in the next...
September 10, 2003 10 Sep'03
AMD releases Opteron 146 and 846

AMD has completed the roll-out of its group of Opteron chips by adding the Opteron 146 and Opteron 846 to its lineup.
September 09, 2003 09 Sep'03
Intel takes Manitoba to the Edge in mobile phones

Designers of mobile phones based on the emerging Edge (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) standard will be able to...
September 09, 2003 09 Sep'03
Sun adds RealPlayer to Mad Hatter bundle

Sun Microsystems will include RealNetworks' RealPlayer media player in its forthcoming Mad Hatter Linux-based desktop package.
September 09, 2003 09 Sep'03
Broadcom introduces single-chip Wi-Fi client

Broadcom has unveiled what it claims is the world's first 802.11b wireless Wi-Fi Lan client contained on a single, low-power chip...
September 08, 2003 08 Sep'03
Top supply executives predict market upturn

An exclusive survey of executives from leading IT suppliers by Microscope, Computer Weekly's sister magazine, reveals that they...
September 08, 2003 08 Sep'03
Intel releases two more Itanium processors

Intel will today (8 September) unveil two new Itanium 2 processors designed for both dual-processor and high-density blade or...
September 08, 2003 08 Sep'03
IBM experiments with Socializer technology

IBM has unveiled its alphaWorks site for emerging technologies software called Socializer, a peer-to-peer application that...
September 08, 2003 08 Sep'03
Dell ships Axim Rom update CDs

Dell will ship a long-awaited Rom update to its Windows Mobile 2003 Axim handhelds on CDs.
September 05, 2003 05 Sep'03
HP to grid-enable all systems

Hewlett-Packard is to add grid capabilities to all of its systems over the next two to three years.
September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Microsoft launches black leather mouse

Microsoft refreshed its mice and keyboard line-up on Wednesday, introducing three mice with a tilting wheel for horizontal...
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Sars outbreak fails to dent second-quarter mobile phone sales

Changing fashions and maturing markets continued to drive mobile phone sales in the second quarter of the year, pushing worldwide...
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
IBM pushes data centre provisioning

IBM is to roll out a set of intelligent system-provisioning tools next month, which can track the use of mainframes, servers and...
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Adobe's Creative Suite goes global

Adobe Systems is to roll out its Creative Suite collections of professional graphics software worldwide at the end of the...
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Apple chosen for supercomputing cluster

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will build an Infiniband cluster using Apple's new dual-processor Power Mac...
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Intel to launch Deerfield before developer conference

Intel will announce Deerfield, the low-power version of its Itanium 2 chip, next Monday, according to a source familiar with the...
September 02, 2003 02 Sep'03
IBM rolls out Tivoli Intelligent Orchestration

IBM will roll out application provisioning software it acquired in its May acquisition of Think Dynamics at the end of the month.
September 02, 2003 02 Sep'03
Worldwide server sales rise sharply in second quarter

Worldwide sales of server systems rose 17.5% in the second quarter of this year - halting a nine-quarter decline, according to...
September 01, 2003 01 Sep'03
Sun ONE Application Server 7 Enterprise Edition prepares for debut

Sun Microsystems aims to make its mark in the Java application server space with its upcoming Sun ONE Application Server 7...
August 29, 2003 29 Aug'03
Hardware failure takes down financial futures exchange

The European financial futures and options trading market, Euronext.Liffe lost 400,000 trades on Wednesday (27 August) when a...
August 29, 2003 29 Aug'03
Microsoft seeks licensing deals from IM client makers

Microsoft is contacting providers of instant messaging (IM) software to try to cut licensing deals before stops its MSN IM...
August 29, 2003 29 Aug'03
Lindows.com unveils cheap business PCs

Lindows.com has introduced an inexpensive computer for business customers which is designed to run limited applications on its...
August 29, 2003 29 Aug'03
Dell boosts Inspiron's media capabilities

Dell has launched the Inspiron 8600 in the US which, the company claims, will improve the multimedia capabilities of its major...
August 29, 2003 29 Aug'03
IBM widens monitor recall

IBM will expand its recall of certain monitors to include an additional 63,000 units with circuit boards that could overheat.
August 28, 2003 28 Aug'03
Server sales rise in Europe, Middle East and Africa

The server market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) showed strong volume growth in the second quarter of this year,...
August 28, 2003 28 Aug'03
University and IBM work on 'supercomputer' chip

IBM has predicted that a chip it is developing with the University of Texas at Austin could produce supercomputer-like...
August 27, 2003 27 Aug'03
Sun seeks to spur app server adoption

Sun Microsystems aims to make its mark in the Java application server space with its upcoming Sun ONE Application Server 7...
August 27, 2003 27 Aug'03
US lab soups up supercomputer

The US Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL) has claimed that its 2,000-processor Intel Itanium 2...
August 27, 2003 27 Aug'03
Intel plans second assembly plant for China

Intel has signed a memorandum of understanding to construct a test and assembly facility in the southwestern Chinese city of...
August 27, 2003 27 Aug'03
AMD sends Durons to emerging markets

Advanced Micro Devices has released three Duron chips for low-end desktops aimed at price-conscious buyers.
August 26, 2003 26 Aug'03
MS cuts Windows price in Thailand

Microsoft has cut the price of its Windows operating system and Office application suite in Thailand, according to a report...
August 26, 2003 26 Aug'03
SuSE and SGI form high-performance alliance

SuSE Linux and Silicon Graphics (SGI) have partnered to bring together SGI's latest high-performance Altix 3000 servers and...
August 26, 2003 26 Aug'03
IBM offers FAStT600 turbo-charge

IBM will offer some enhancements to its FAStT600 storage server that it claims will improve its performance and double the amount...
August 26, 2003 26 Aug'03
HP updates low-end iPaq

Hewlett-Packard continued to revamp its iPaq handhelds with the launch of the h1935, a lightweight personal digital assistant...
August 26, 2003 26 Aug'03
Microsoft extends mainstream support for Exchange 5.5

Microsoft is to extend mainstream support for Exchange 5.5 until 31 December 2004. The mainstream support period had been...
August 22, 2003 22 Aug'03
Intel raises revenue expectations

Intel raised its revenue expectations for the third quarter on Friday (22 August) citing strong demand for PC and server...
August 21, 2003 21 Aug'03
Philips licenses Memory Stick technology for TVs

Philips Electronics is licensing Sony's Memory Stick software for use in its Nexperia-branded family of multimedia chips for...
August 21, 2003 21 Aug'03
Gateway readies low-end storage products

Gateway next week is expected to announce its first low-end storage array as part of an overall strategy to sell everything from...
August 21, 2003 21 Aug'03
IBM runs Power5 prototypes

IBM confirmed on Tuesday that the first silicon prototypes of its multi-threaded, multi-core Power5 microprocessor are now...
August 20, 2003 20 Aug'03
Microsoft to lock down MSN Messenger network

Microsoft will make changes to its MSN instant messaging service that will lock out users of third-party software that uses the...
August 20, 2003 20 Aug'03
Linux kernels riddled with 'misappropriated' code, claims SCO

The Linux kernels at the heart of SCO’s legal claim contain thousands of files “misappropriated" from Unix, SCO has claimed.
August 19, 2003 19 Aug'03
Darpa work is shaping Sun's future

A desktop-sized supercomputer, new types of computer memory systems and easier-to-build microprocessors could be reality if...
August 19, 2003 19 Aug'03
No escape from SCO licence fee, Linux users warned

SCO has warned Linux users that they will still need to buy one of its licences even if they manage to find and replace the code...
August 18, 2003 18 Aug'03
IBM financial package clinches Lego upgrade

An attractive financial package was the deciding factor in toy maker Lego's decision to migrate from Hewlett-Packard to IBM, as...
August 18, 2003 18 Aug'03
Injuries trial proves value of MMS

Analysts predict a sharp uptake in photo messaging in the public and private sectors following the launch of a trial by Scottish...
August 15, 2003 15 Aug'03
Sun touts OS as secure alternative to Windows

Sun Microsystems has opened up early registration for Project Mad Hatter, positioning it as a cheaper, secure alternative desktop...
August 14, 2003 14 Aug'03
Europe to receive Intel/Microsoft phone in Q3

Efforts by Microsoft to penetrate the European mobile phone market could receive a boost when Taiwanese hardware manufacturer...
August 14, 2003 14 Aug'03
Cruise firm to manage its 4,000 PCs remotely

Carnival Cruise Lines is to deploy a system to manage and provision 4,000 PCs remotely, including 1,200 installed on the...
August 14, 2003 14 Aug'03
Lotus hops on IBM's Express

IBM yesterday released two previously announced Lotus additions to its midmarket line of Express software products.
August 13, 2003 13 Aug'03
Iomega to ship 35Gybte portable drive

Iomega is developing a way for computer users to take their hard discs on the road.
August 13, 2003 13 Aug'03
AMD unveils 64-bit awareness campaign

PC manufacturers expect a marketing campaign announced by Advanced Micro Devices to improve awareness of the company's 64-bit...
August 13, 2003 13 Aug'03
Gateway delays release of handheld

Gateway has pushed back the release of its first handheld product, which might not surface this year, a spokeswoman said...
August 13, 2003 13 Aug'03
Sun to discontine LX50 Intel-based server

Sun Microsystems will stop selling its LX50 server, the company's first general purpose Intel x86-based server, on 16 October.
August 12, 2003 12 Aug'03
Microsoft wants user feedback on Office

Microsoft wants more details on how its products are used so it can make its applications "almost entirely crash-free" and build...
August 12, 2003 12 Aug'03
Transmeta unveils Efficeon processor brand

Transmeta is distributing samples of its next-generation mobile processor, Efficeon, to customers, with the aim of releasing it...
August 12, 2003 12 Aug'03
Sun touts low-end hardware efforts

Sun Microsystems is forming an advisory group to boost its application offerings for the Intel version of the Solaris operating...
August 11, 2003 11 Aug'03
Lego dumps HP to build IBM servers and storage infrastucture

The Lego Company is ripping out its Hewlett-Packard-based server and storage infrastructure and replacing it with IBM products.
August 11, 2003 11 Aug'03
Lindows rolls out low-cost, flat monitor PC

Linux-based software provider Lindows.com has rolled out a $449 (£280) flat-panel monitor PC.
August 11, 2003 11 Aug'03
HP to unveil lastest photography products

Hewlett-Packard will focus on printing, digital photography and making the two work together better when it announces the first...
August 11, 2003 11 Aug'03
Colour-screen BlackBerry makes US debut

Research in Motion and T-Mobile International have launched the BlackBerry 7230 in the US, following its debut in Europe two...
August 08, 2003 08 Aug'03
Sainsbury trials self-scanning but back-end integration challenge looms

Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has become the latest retailer to begin using self-scanning checkouts, in what will be the largest...
August 08, 2003 08 Aug'03
Rackable and BioTeam roll out Linux cluster

Rackable Systems and The BioTeam have released Rackable Linux cluster servers bundled with BioTeam's Inquiry bioinformatics...
August 07, 2003 07 Aug'03
LinuxWorld: Sun demos Mad Hatter desktop

Sun executive vice-president of software Jonathan Schwartz told an audience here at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo to worry more...
August 06, 2003 06 Aug'03
AMD demos Alchemy-based PDA running Linux

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has a reference design for a PDA based on its Alchemy Au1100 processor running Linux at the...
August 06, 2003 06 Aug'03
Lastminute.com appoints COO from Nokia

Online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com has appointed the former managing director of Nokia UK and Ireland as its chief...
August 06, 2003 06 Aug'03
Microsoft puts a tilt on the mouse wheel

Microsoft is reinventing the mouse wheel, adding tilt wheel technology for horizontal scrolling and smoothing the vertical scroll...
August 05, 2003 05 Aug'03
In-house mobile phone networks could bring 20% telecoms savings

Companies could make significant savings by creating mobile phone networks in their offices, mobile phone supplier Nokia has...
August 05, 2003 05 Aug'03
AMD boosts clock speed on two-way Opteron

Advanced Micro Devices has released the Opteron 246, increasing the performance of its processors for two-way servers and...
August 04, 2003 04 Aug'03
Gateway releases four-way server

Gateway will release its first four-way server later today in an attempt to win over more business customers.
August 01, 2003 01 Aug'03
IBM expands Lotus Linux support

IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 upgrade will include expanded Linux support.
August 01, 2003 01 Aug'03
Lotus Instant Messenger comes to BlackBerry

Java-based BlackBerry wireless handhelds from Research in Motion now support IBM's Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace 3...
July 31, 2003 31 Jul'03
Patch misuse and web page delay stall Axim fix

Dell has missed a self-imposed deadline to post a fix on its website for the performance problems plaguing the Windows Mobile...
July 31, 2003 31 Jul'03
IBM trumpets eServer 325 launch

IBM has unveiled a server based on Intel's Opteron processor, along with the latest version of its DB2 database and DB2-based...
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
AMD price cuts spark new Opteron chip rumours

Benchmark results for unannounced Opteron processors posted on Advanced Micro Devices' website, coupled with steep price cuts on...
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
Dell unveils two lightweight notebooks

Dell has unveiled two lighter notebooks, the Inspiron 300m and Latitude X300.
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
Korean company claims lightest MP3 player yet

A South Korean company has developed what is one of the smallest and lightest MP3 players to date.
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
MIcrosoft Research preps Usenet analysis tool

Microsoft researchers are working on technology that makes it easier to navigate Usenet news groups, and which could help clear...
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
IBM to build world's most powerful Linux computer

A Japanese national research laboratory has placed an order with IBM for a supercomputer cluster which, when completed, is...
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
Sun resumes V210 and V240 server shipments

Sun Microsystems has fixed a data corruption problem with its Sun Fire V210 and V240 servers and has resumed shipments of the two...
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
Dell patches Pocket PC multimedia glitch

Dell is offering a software patch today for a glitch in its version of Pocket PC 2003 software, which can cause a "significant...
July 30, 2003 30 Jul'03
Alliance launched to promote chip standards

Chip designer Arm and mobile phone company Nokia have teamed up with semiconductor manufacturers STMicroelectronics (STM) and...
July 29, 2003 29 Jul'03
Dell resumes Axim shipments

Users of Dell's Axim handhelds with Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 operating system will be able to download firmware to correct...
July 29, 2003 29 Jul'03
Sun Linux lives on in Mad Hatter software bundle

Sun Microsystems' forthcoming bundle of desktop software, codenamed Mad Hatter, will include Sun's own Linux operating systems,...
July 25, 2003 25 Jul'03
BCS women's group sets up mentor scheme

Using a career mentor or being a mentor to other people can aid personal development, according to the BCS Women Specialist...
July 25, 2003 25 Jul'03
Gates enigmatic about Longhorn launch

Longhorn, the next version of Microsoft Windows desktop operating system, will be so different that users may not like it right...
July 24, 2003 24 Jul'03
Automated tape products become more 'intelligent'

Quantum has introduced the first firmware for monitoring and reporting on midrange tape drives, giving super digital linear tape...
July 23, 2003 23 Jul'03
BuyMusic.com launches Windows answer to iTunes

Scott Blum, the owner of online retailer Buy.com launched an online music service called BuyMusic.com, which his company is...
July 23, 2003 23 Jul'03
Europeans clamour for handheld devices

The poor economy has not stopped Europeans from buying mobile devices, according to a study by Canalys.
July 22, 2003 22 Jul'03
Strong notebook sales drive PC market, say IDC

IDC has revised its preliminary figures for second quarter PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), saying...