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October 07, 2003 07 Oct'03
Microsoft to make changes to Explorer

Microsoft is making "minor changes" to its Internet Explorer web browser that will affect how web page authors embed and...
October 07, 2003 07 Oct'03
ClearCube expands reach and usability of blades

Blade PC company ClearCube has updated its technology for connecting users to its blades, using IP as the transmission standard.
October 07, 2003 07 Oct'03
Yahoo IM offers web conferencing

Yahoo and WebEx Communications have completed of their project to integrate Yahoo’s Business Messenger with WebEx Meetings, a...
October 07, 2003 07 Oct'03
Marimba upgrades tool to track app use

Marimba has upgraded an application-tracking tool that can measure how often end users run the programs installed on their PCs.

October 06, 2003 06 Oct'03
Chip maker sees speedy return on consolidation

Silicon chip manufacturer National Semiconductor is about to start the last stage of a project to consolidate 200 enterprise...
October 06, 2003 06 Oct'03
Networks price war looms

IT organisations could benefit from a price and services war among network infrastructure suppliers.
October 06, 2003 06 Oct'03
IBM hosting on demand points to offshore trend

IBM has broadened its remote Virtual Server Services, which had been offered only on its zSeries servers, to include the rest of...
October 03, 2003 03 Oct'03
Toshiba develops portable fuel-cell charger

Toshiba will unveil a prototype handheld fuel cell unit that it expects to have on the market in 2005 which it hopes will allow...
October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
Volunteer grid tackles smallpox research

Researchers have narrowed the search for a new treatment for smallpox using the computing power of 2.5 million PCs donated by...
October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
MS small-business server prepares to debut

Microsoft will use its integration abilities as a way to strengthen its hold on smaller accounts when it formally rolls out two...

October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
European web hosting company launches in US

European web hosting and domain name registration company 1&1 Internet has launched in the US, and is offering a free, three-year...
October 01, 2003 01 Oct'03
HP to roll out more consumer products

Hewlett-Packard may have lost its lead in terms of worldwide PC shipments to rival Dell in the first quarter of this year, but...
October 01, 2003 01 Oct'03
Dell PDA specs leaked on US federal website

Documents found on the US Federal Communications Commission's website indicate that Dell's forthcoming Axim X3 personal digital...
October 01, 2003 01 Oct'03
Icann to investigate VeriSign's wildcard service

VeriSign's Site Finder has come under further scrutiny from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).
October 01, 2003 01 Oct'03
Opera strikes licensing deal with Adobe

Adobe Systems will include the cross-platform rendering engine from niche browser maker Opera Software of Norway in its future...
October 01, 2003 01 Oct'03
Palm broadens Tungsten PDA range

Palm is unveiling three personal digital assistants today, adding two new Tungsten devices and a Zire device to its lineup.
October 01, 2003 01 Oct'03
Microsoft Media Centre software makes Europe debut

Microsoft will launch the latest version of its Windows Media Center software, bringing television capabilities and PVR (personal...
September 30, 2003 30 Sep'03
Sun revises quarterly results to report $1bn loss

Sun updates figures after a particularly difficult first quarter
September 30, 2003 30 Sep'03
SuSE rolls out Linux Desktop 9.0

SuSE Linux aims to bridge the gap between 34- and 64-bit with its SuSE Linux 9.0 desktop operating system.
September 30, 2003 30 Sep'03
IBM offers server computing remotely

IBM is introducing a range of service which provide remote access to server computing resources and prices are based on use.
September 29, 2003 29 Sep'03
Awards for excellence

More than 600 UK IT industry leaders gathered at London’s Park Lane Hilton last week to celebrate with the winners of the British...
September 29, 2003 29 Sep'03
Windows delay: users told to check licences

Organisations that have taken up Microsoft's Software Assurance subscription licensing should re-evaluate their position after...
September 26, 2003 26 Sep'03
Dell unveils products for the digital home

Dell has announced several products which include a music player and a music download service, designed to help the company ease...
September 26, 2003 26 Sep'03
GE picks Plateau e-learning system

General Electric has begun installing an e-learning management system from Plateau Systems, in what may be one of the largest...
September 26, 2003 26 Sep'03
Microsoft creates unit for mobile content delivery

Microsoft has created a business unit to develop product packages for content delivery to mobile devices.
September 25, 2003 25 Sep'03
BCS launches IT literacy campaign

A £1m campaign to raise public awareness of IT skills and the importance of IT qualifications has been launched by the BCS and...
September 25, 2003 25 Sep'03
Athlon 64 shortage hits PC makers

Despite a high-profile launch, AMD's 64-bit Athlon 64 processor is in short supply and volume shipments of PCs based on the chip...
September 25, 2003 25 Sep'03
Dell downplays opportunities in PDA market

Dell chairman Michael Dell does not expect the market for PDAs to grow significantly over the short term, and said his company...
September 25, 2003 25 Sep'03
Via to ship smallest PC processor so far

Taiwanese chip supplier Via Technologies will ship its smallest PC processor and motherboard before the end of the year.
September 25, 2003 25 Sep'03
Intel pours $450m into memory chip maker Micron

Intel has invested $450m in memory chip maker Micron Technology with the aim of developing next-generation chips that work with...
September 24, 2003 24 Sep'03
In-house approach saves Staffs Police £300,000 on mobile system

Staffordshire Police has avoided costs of around £300,000 by developing vital components of a mobile computing system in-house.
September 24, 2003 24 Sep'03
Oracle e-mail product gets BlackBerry support

Oracle has partnered with a small Canadian software company to allow users of its Oracle Collaboration Suite e-mail product to...
September 24, 2003 24 Sep'03
Shortlist announced for local government IT awards

Halton Borough Council, Liverpool City Council, Leicester City Council and the Surrey Partners e-Recruitment pathfinder project...
September 23, 2003 23 Sep'03
Mitac prepares widescreen PC for October launch

Taiwanese PC company Mitac International will begin shipping a desktop PC with an integrated 17-inch widescreen TFT liquid...
September 23, 2003 23 Sep'03
Microsoft's Office 2003 XML integration message fails to impress

Microsoft's claim that its Office 2003 suite could bridge the gap between front-end and back-end systems has aroused only mild...
September 23, 2003 23 Sep'03
Intel defends its base as mobile future awaits

Intel's successful launch of the Centrino brand - with its notebook processor, chipset and wireless chip earlier this year - was...
September 22, 2003 22 Sep'03
Intel targets blade server market

Intel has unveiled its first range of blade server products, which it will sell to tier-two server manufacturers.
September 22, 2003 22 Sep'03
Icann asks Verisign to suspend web service

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has asked Verisign to suspend its Site Finder service while it...
September 19, 2003 19 Sep'03
British computer society Record BCS income fuelled by leap in demand for qualifications

Continuing big increases in demand for IT qualifications pushed BCS income to a record £13.3m for the 2002-2003 financial year,...
September 19, 2003 19 Sep'03
New processors could drive down cost of 64-bit computing by 60%

Processor giant AMD today launched its new Athlon 64-chip in a move that could help lower the cost of 64-bit computing.
September 19, 2003 19 Sep'03
Dell comments cause confusion over modular computing initiative

Industry sources have claimed that comments made by Michael Dell at last week's OracleWorld conference in San Francisco have...
September 18, 2003 18 Sep'03
AMD prepares for Athlon64 launch

The long-awaited launch of AMD'S Athlon64 processor is less than a week away, and it is only a matter of time before rival Intel...
September 18, 2003 18 Sep'03
Intel coy over multicore processor plans

Intel's much-anticipated multicore processor, codenamed Tanglewood, will contain eight processor cores when it ships, according...
September 18, 2003 18 Sep'03
IBM touts infrastructure simplification

IBM is pushing a set of provisioning technologies and lower-cost Linux-based blade servers to help IT managers deal with...
September 18, 2003 18 Sep'03
NEC improves notebook fuel cell technology

NEC claims to have reduced the volume of a prototype fuel-cell for notebook computers by 20% while maintaining the same power...
September 18, 2003 18 Sep'03
Orange and Handspring launch smartphone for Europe

Orange has extended its latest line of smart phones with the launch of the Treo 600, which features the OS5 operating system from...
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Intel parades PC partitioning and server chips

Intel announced Vanderpool, a technology which will let desktop PCs run independent operating systems on a single chip, at its...
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Digital entertainment gets a boost

Intel has promised that PC gamers will soon get their very own Pentium 4 processor.
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Infineon and Huawei collaborate on 3G broadband mobile phone

German chip maker Infineon Technologies and Chinese network equipment vendor Huawei Technologies are to develop a low-cost...
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Intel addresses LaGrande privacy concerns

Intel is taking steps to ensure that its design for LaGrande, the next generation of computer security components, will be...
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Apple updates PowerBook range

Apple Computer has added three new models to its PowerBook notebook range and unveiled a cordless mouse to accompany them.
September 17, 2003 17 Sep'03
Sun touts Intel Xeon-based grid

Sun Microsystems has introduced a reference architecture and product bundle for setting up Intel-based computing grids. It...
September 16, 2003 16 Sep'03
Industry trade group releases ExpressCard standard

The industry trade group PCMCIA, which maintains the standard for PC cards, has released the ExpressCard standard, which reduces...
September 16, 2003 16 Sep'03
AMD to introduce low-power Opterons

AMD will offer mid- and low-power versions of its Opteron server and workstation processor in the first half of 2004.
September 16, 2003 16 Sep'03
Atheros and Broadcom chips promise faster Wi-Fi with less power

Broadcom and Atheros Communications have introduced new chipsets for connecting notebooks to wireless networks, and both are...
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...