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August 28, 2002 28 Aug'02
Japanese are first in line for Microsoft Tablet PC

The Japanese unit of Microsoft has named 7 November as the day to launch the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software and Tablet PC...
August 28, 2002 28 Aug'02
HP revenue drops from a year ago

Hewlett-Packard continued to suffer from a slow down in technology spending in its third fiscal quarter, posting a fall in...
August 28, 2002 28 Aug'02
Intel unleashes enterprise optical transceiver

Intel has unveiled a 10Gbps (bit-per-second) transceiver designed for the standard PCI interface in an attempt to slash the cost...
August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
IBM puts Cisco security into chip

IBM hopes to deliver notebooks with built-in security chips that are integrated with a wireless authentication and encryption...

August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
Japan's KDDI announces record 2.5G subs

The total number of subscriptions to Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI CDMA2000 mobile telephone service reached 2 million...
August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
HP introduces dual-processor blade servers

Hewlett-Packard has introduced dual Pentium blade servers, a move analysts view as a natural extension of the single-processor...
August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
Quantum introduces new entry-level NAS box

Storage vendor Quantum has announced a new compact network-attached storage NAS box for workgroups with features previously...
August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
AMD releases first 0.13 micron-process server chip

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has extended its range of chips for servers and workstations with the release of the Athlon MP 2200+...
August 23, 2002 23 Aug'02
Semiconductor equipment orders show slight rise

Things may be looking up for the semiconductor industry, but chip makers are still not buying equipment like they did a few years...
August 23, 2002 23 Aug'02
Details of AMD's Hammer emerge at Hot Chips

Limited specifications of Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's) forthcoming Hammer technology were revealed at the Hot Chips conference...

August 22, 2002 22 Aug'02
Dataquest: European server sales down 4%

Server shipments in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region fell 4% in the second quarter of 2002 compared with the same...
August 22, 2002 22 Aug'02
M-commerce benefits understated

Companies that are interested in using mobile devices need to consider more than just return on investment when assessing the...
August 22, 2002 22 Aug'02
Pizza-box server wars begin as IBM counters Sun with high-spec offering

The "pizza box" wars have started, with the launch of Sun Microsystems' first low-end Intel-based server being countered by a...
August 22, 2002 22 Aug'02
Nortel chief outlines new approach to services

Mobile service providers should use incremental technologies to try out services and find out what customers want before they...
August 21, 2002 21 Aug'02
AMD launches latest Athlon XP processors

Advanced Micro Devices has begun shipping two new versions of its Athlon XP processor and says machines based on the chips can be...
August 21, 2002 21 Aug'02
Microsoft certifies Transmeta chip for Windows CE .net

Transmeta's Crusoe processor has been certified compatible with Microsoft's Windows CE .net. Hardware manufacturers will now be...
August 20, 2002 20 Aug'02
Flat-panel monitor prices predicted to fall

Prices of TFT-LCD (thin film transistor liquid crystal display) are expected to fall in the months ahead as a result of increases...
August 20, 2002 20 Aug'02
Sun launches new low-end Unix workstation

Sun Microsystems has released the Sun Blade 150, the latest addition to the company's low-end workstation product range.
August 20, 2002 20 Aug'02
Faster Intel and AMD chips forge ahead of schedule

Faster versions of existing chip families from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will be released over the next two weeks, setting...
August 19, 2002 19 Aug'02
Dell printers and PDAs expected in Q4

Dell Computer's entry into the printer and PDA markets will cause headaches for some vendors but will delight users, according to...
August 19, 2002 19 Aug'02
Via launches chipset for AMD processors

Via Technologies is to release a chipset for Athlon XP processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this Friday at the QuakeCon...
August 19, 2002 19 Aug'02
Samsung releases more details of Microsoft phone

Samsung Electronics has released more details of its mobile phone based on Microsoft's Windows-Powered Smartphone 2002 platform...
August 16, 2002 16 Aug'02
Linuxworld: Hewlett-Packard updates Linux offerings

Hewlett-Packard announced several additions and enhancements to its Linux offerings at the LinuxWorld conference this week.
August 15, 2002 15 Aug'02
Linuxworld: Vendors back base standard

Three leading Linux vendors have announced that they are backing a set of standards known as the Linux Standard Base (LSB), aimed...
August 15, 2002 15 Aug'02
Linuxworld: Itanium 2 system on the way from IBM

IBM has used the Linuxworld conference in San Francisco to show off a system running on Intel's Itanium 2 processor and a version...
August 15, 2002 15 Aug'02
Samsung starts production of 1Gbit flash memory

Samsung Semiconductor has started mass producing 1Gbit flash memory chips using a manufacturing process that allows for cheaper...
August 14, 2002 14 Aug'02
Sun hints at Linux desktop strategy

Sun is to deliver low-cost desktop computing based on Linux as an alternative to Microsoft.
August 14, 2002 14 Aug'02
Linuxworld: Red Hat preparing desktop Linux

Open source operating system vendor Red Hat is preparing a version of Linux for use on corporate workstations, Michael Tiemann,...
August 14, 2002 14 Aug'02
Sony adds two PDA s to Clié range

Sony has posted two new personal digital assistants on its shopping Web sites for Australia and Hong Kong ahead of an official...
August 14, 2002 14 Aug'02
Dell boosts Dimension PC performance

Dell Computer has increased the performance of its lowest-cost Dimension model while trimming the price.
August 12, 2002 12 Aug'02
Linuxworld: IBM challenges Sun with Linux server launches

IBM has sharpened its drive for the Linux market with the release of servers that take direct aim at its main hardware rival, Sun...
August 12, 2002 12 Aug'02
Linuxworld: Sun shows Linux server and resurrects Solaris on Intel

Sun Microsystems has responded to user demand by announcing its first general-purpose server to run Linux and has promised to...
August 12, 2002 12 Aug'02
Linuxworld: Vendors emphasise cost saving with open-source software

Return on investment will dominate this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, with vendors promising user...
August 12, 2002 12 Aug'02
Sun to detail plans for Linux plunge

Sun Microsystems is planning to launch a low-end server based on Intel processors and featuring a Sun-branded version of the...
August 09, 2002 09 Aug'02
Oracle and Dell join forces on app servers

Dell Computer is reselling the Oracle9i Application Server on both the Windows and Linux platforms, Oracle said yesterday.
August 09, 2002 09 Aug'02
Fuel cell coming to a handheld near you

It may be years before your car is powered by a fuel cell, but your handheld computer will not have to wait too long if engineers...
August 09, 2002 09 Aug'02
IBM nano microscope gives insight into materials

IBM and optical instruments maker Nion have developed a microscope technology that lets researchers look inside materials and see...
August 09, 2002 09 Aug'02
Linuxcare's Levanta package aims to ease server consolidation

Linuxcare has rolled out software that helps larger shops configure and update large-scale Linux deployments.
August 08, 2002 08 Aug'02
Don't count on Web content as an e-business revenue stream

Companies providing pure content over the Internet are struggling to cope amid a climate of tumbling advertising revenues.
August 08, 2002 08 Aug'02
IBM and DARPA explore low-power computing

IBM is teaming with the US Department of Defense (DoD) research arm to study methods of reducing the power consumption of...
August 08, 2002 08 Aug'02
Linux spending dips, but is poised for growth

Revenue from new licences of the Linux operating system fell last year, following two years of rapid growth. However, a shift in...
August 08, 2002 08 Aug'02
IBM lures SME clients to Linux

IBM has reinforced its commitment to Linux with details of customers that have chosen to use the open source system with its...
August 08, 2002 08 Aug'02
Sun could double processor count in servers

Sun Microsystems is likely to unveil processors as early as next year that would allow customers to double the number of...
August 06, 2002 06 Aug'02
Yahoo! buys stake in Finland's Sonera Zed

Yahoo! and Sonera Zed have agreed to deliver co-branded mobile services in Europe in a first step towards a deeper commercial...
August 06, 2002 06 Aug'02
Microsoft, Dell and Intel fund Cornell cluster expansion

Three technology heavyweights have joined the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) to announce their expansion of a project to build...
August 06, 2002 06 Aug'02
NEC launches environmentally friendly PC

NEC Solutions has launched the PowerMate eco, a fanless, ecologically sensitive desktop PC.
August 06, 2002 06 Aug'02
Linux cluster tackles gene research

A 150-processor cluster supercomputer built by Linux Networx is helping a California biopharmaceutical company compare genes from...
August 05, 2002 05 Aug'02
IBM expands server cluster technology

IBM has introduced what is being touted as the largest ever preconfigured server cluster for running commercial Unix...
August 02, 2002 02 Aug'02
Notebook growth soars as PC market declines

Shipments of mobile PCs grew by 6.1% in the second quarter, despite a decline in the overall PC market, according to a Dataquest...
August 02, 2002 02 Aug'02
IBM doubles up Unix clusters

IBM has doubled the size of a pre-certified cluster of Unix servers that it offers users to help them save space and cut down on...
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
Business brisk in run-up to Microsoft deadline

As Computer Weekly went to press Microsoft's UK licensing manager, Sue Page, confirmed that business has been brisk in the run-up...
August 01, 2002 01 Aug'02
MPs slam air traffic systems

A powerful committee of MPs has slammed National Air Traffic Services' (Nats) IT systems. It warned that the computers at the old...
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Nats chief's 'truly awful' week ends with more delays

A senior executive at National Air Traffic Services (Nats) has told staff that the company's service to airlines last month was...
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
IBM readies DB2 for Hammer

Computing giant IBM has prepared a version of its DB2 database to run on Linux servers that use the yet-to-be-released Opteron...
July 30, 2002 30 Jul'02
Lewisham trials user-friendly government services

Lewisham Council in London is testing Internet technology from Fujitsu Consulting and Microsoft in a bid to stem the Internet...
July 30, 2002 30 Jul'02
AMD cuts processor prices

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has cut the price of some of its processors in the hope of stimulating demand for its alternatives...
July 30, 2002 30 Jul'02
Veritas outlines Linux roadmap

Storage software maker Veritas has announced the release of Linux-compatible versions of its NAS (network attached storage) and...
July 30, 2002 30 Jul'02
IBM to sell and support VMware software

IBM has strengthened its commitment to providing partitioning tools for its Intel-based servers with the announcement of a deal...
July 29, 2002 29 Jul'02
NEC to build supercomputer for UK Met Office

NEC has announced it will build a supercomputer for the Met Office, the UK's national weather service, in a deal valued at...
July 29, 2002 29 Jul'02
CA sets up sales team to boost services business

Computer Associates International has assembled a group of sales people whose task will be to promote the company's IT services...
July 25, 2002 25 Jul'02
Airline passengers getting more data comm options

Tenzing Communications has joined aviation electronics maker Rockwell Collins and Airbus in an agreement to offer communications...
July 25, 2002 25 Jul'02
IBM and Opera to develop multimodal Web browser

A Web browser that will allow a single mobile device to provide Internet and voice information access is being developed in a...
July 25, 2002 25 Jul'02
US govt to relinquish spreads of wireless spectrum

The US Department of Commerce has agreed to release 90MHz of radio spectrum to help meet anticipated demand for commercial...
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
MoD refuses to concede error in Chinook verdict

The Ministry of Defence (MoD), citing a new series of simulations by Boeing, has refused to clear the names of two pilots blamed...
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
Siemens posts third-quarter profit

Siemens has posted a third quarter profit of €725m (£460.4m) as of 30 June, compared with a loss excluding one-time items of...
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
Sony sets its sights on low-end PDA market

Sony has added a personal digital assistant to its Clié range that targets low-end users and the back-to-school crowd.
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
HP drops Dell printer deal

Hewlett-Packard has stopped selling its printing and digital imaging products to Dell, as the two companies jockey for top...
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
Fujitsu boosts hard disk data density

Fujitsu has begun shipping samples of its 60Gbyte, 2.5-inch hard disk drives with an areal density of 53.2G bits per square inch....
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
IT directors pull plugs on PDAs

European IT directors are reluctant to spend on personal digital assistants (PDAs), and sales of the devices are stagnating,...
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
Intel to slash Pentium 4 prices

Intel will cut the prices of its Pentium 4 processors by an average of 26% by 1 September - six weeks earlier than expected -...
July 23, 2002 23 Jul'02
Asian PC sales show 5% boost

PC sales in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of 2002 have increased by around 5% from last year,...
July 23, 2002 23 Jul'02
Applied Materials announce chip miniaturisation tools

Applied Materials said it has developed equipment that allows chip makers to halve the size of chip circuitry while increasing...
July 23, 2002 23 Jul'02
HP sticks with Quantum but drops StorageTek

Hewlett-Packard has picked storage vendor Quantum Corp. as the supplier for its high-end automated tape libraries, ending its...
July 23, 2002 23 Jul'02
Internet use in China rises sharply

The number of Internet users in China has risen 35.5% in the first half of this year to reach 45.8 million, according to the...
July 23, 2002 23 Jul'02
HP prepares to launch Xeon-based blade servers

Hewlett-Packard is to release a line of powerful blade servers in the next two months that will be among the first to use Intel's...
July 22, 2002 22 Jul'02
Oil company drops mainframes for 2,500 Linux servers

One of the world's largest oil exploration support service companies is installing 2,500 Intel Xeon-based IBM servers running on...
July 22, 2002 22 Jul'02
FBI expects two-year wait to replace old computers

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will have to wait two years to have its antiquated computer system updated, a bureau...
July 19, 2002 19 Jul'02
Texas Instruments offers larger wafers for Sun UltraSparc processors

Texas Instruments has begun using an advanced manufacturing process for larger wafers that will soon be used to make Sun...
July 19, 2002 19 Jul'02
MacWorld: Apple unveils iSync

Apple Computer unveiled iSync - a wired and wireless synchronisation technology that allows users to synchronise data between...
July 18, 2002 18 Jul'02
E-envoy's system is vulnerable

The Office of the E-envoy has admitted that its departmental IT system is vulnerable to hacking.
July 18, 2002 18 Jul'02
Academics buy killer kit

The UK will soon be home to the fifth most powerful computer in the world.
July 18, 2002 18 Jul'02
Tool vendors support AMD's Hammer chips

Several vendors of tools for software development announced their support for Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD) upcoming Opteron and...
July 17, 2002 17 Jul'02
OQO launches desktop PC you can put in your pocket

The Tablet PC and Pocket PC specifications may be the future for Microsoft, but IBM and San Francisco firm OQO are working on...
July 17, 2002 17 Jul'02
3G technology fails to excite consumers

Although 72% of the UK population owns a mobile phone, few people are interested in third-generation mobile services, according...
July 17, 2002 17 Jul'02
Dell boosts price and performance of entry-level notebooks

Dell has upgraded its low-priced SmartStep notebook line with two more expensive SmartStep laptops.
July 16, 2002 16 Jul'02
IBM hits both ends of storage market

IBM will soon offer low and high-end storage arrays aimed at challenging rivals such as Hitachi Data Systems and Dell Computer...
July 15, 2002 15 Jul'02
IBM upgrades Shark storage system

IBM will release its two latest versions of its high-end storage system, code named Shark, in August, making significant upgrades...
July 15, 2002 15 Jul'02
AMD launches fastest mobile Athlon yet

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has launched its fastest mobile processor to date, the AMD Athlon XP 1800+.
July 15, 2002 15 Jul'02
Gartner: WorldMark server price tag is misleading

Analyst group Gartner has warned NCR's Teradata customers against overpaying for the WorldMark servers that were introduced in...
July 15, 2002 15 Jul'02
HyperTransport signs up further support

Eleven companies have joined the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, bringing the total of participating companies to 51. It is...
July 12, 2002 12 Jul'02
Dell ups forecast for Q2 revenue

Dell Computer has raised its revenue and profit forecast for its fiscal second quarter, citing market share gains that it claims...
July 11, 2002 11 Jul'02
Split over location services

Of the IT managers responding to this week's Computer Weekly/ Harvey Nash Big Question poll, 44% believe their company could...
July 10, 2002 10 Jul'02
Donating PCs can be easier than disposal

Charity Computer Aid International has launched a campaign to encourage businesses to donate their old PCs to developing...
July 10, 2002 10 Jul'02
Users welcome prices for HP's 64-bit systems

IT departments have welcomed Hewlett-Packard's new price points for systems based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor.
July 10, 2002 10 Jul'02
DoCoMo unveils PHS videophone and 3G PDA phone

NTT DoCoMo is to release a mobile videophone for its second-generation PHS (Personal Handyphone System) network. This handset...
July 09, 2002 09 Jul'02
Intel's Itanium 2 gains support from UnitedLinux

In an announcement yesterday, the four Linux vendors that make up the UnitedLinux effort said the operating system would support...
July 08, 2002 08 Jul'02
Itanium 2 leads Intel's assault on the data centre

Intel has launched the second version of its Itanium processor in a bid to drive PC computing into the data centre.
July 05, 2002 05 Jul'02
SuSE adds features to Linux for IBM servers

SuSE Linux has added additional features to its Linux distribution for servers from IBM.
July 05, 2002 05 Jul'02
Sony unveils palm-sized digital still camera

Sony has unveiled its smallest digital still camera to date and has taken its first steps into the booming market for low-cost,...
July 04, 2002 04 Jul'02
Few are interested in Pakistan offer

Last week, Computer Weekly revealed that Pakistan is offering low-cost deals for UK firms wanting to hire offshore development...