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Data centre hardware
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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July 30, 2003
30
Jul'03
Dell unveils two lightweight notebooks
Dell has unveiled two lighter notebooks, the Inspiron 300m and Latitude X300.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...