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Intel Corp. next month will initiate a new round of price cuts on its top-selling Pentium 4 line as well as its Celeron and Xeon processors, according to sources. The cost cutting will start Nov. 10 with the introduction of a new 2GHz Celeron processor and coinciding price reductions in lower-speed versions of the brand […]

EMC Corp. on Thursday announced details of its Common Information Model and Bluefin roadmaps, and said its opening its WideSky storage management middleware to developers. CIM is an evolving industry standard for making storage products all speak the same language to each other; Bluefin is an implementation specification. WideSky is EMCs proprietary translator between its […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft may not be a media company, but the company pulled out all the entertainment stops to launch its MSN 8 Internet-access software and service here on Thursday. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced at the Central Park roll-out that Walt Disney and Microsoft are launching a co-branded “Disney on MSN” […]

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Despite offering a somber projection that the high-tech industry will experience only “nominal growth” through 2006, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina on Tuesday nevertheless projected a bright future for her company, contending its controversial buyout of a longtime rival is already paying dividends. In her opening address at a two-day HP conference for […]

Intel Corp. has begun shipping 3GHz Pentium 4 processors, the first to feature performance-enhancing hyperthreading technology, to major PC makers in preparation for its formal launch Nov. 14, sources said. New processors are normally shipped to major PC companies weeks in advance to enable vendors to validate the performance of the chip and assure it […]

OpenHack 4, part of eWEEKs ongoing evaluation of enterprise security under real-world conditions, was launched today at 8 a.m. PDT. We invite hackers to attempt to crack the OpenHack site, home to applications written and hardened by Microsoft and Oracle. As of 9:56 a.m. PDT, the site was humming with 1,216 concurrent connections and 51 […]

Decru Inc. is the latest company to join the storage security niche, with its first encryption product, DataFort. The main weaknesses of enterprise storage are human error and the aggregation points of backup systems, said Dan Avida, president and CEO of the Redwood City, Calif., startup. To address the weaknesses, DataFort, announced last week, combines […]

Boss Denied Cash Bonus Larry Ellison will have to go without a cash bonus for Oracles 2003 fiscal year. Oracle shareholders last week approved a company-sponsored plan that will keep Ellison—the vendors founder, chairman and CEO—and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Henley from being awarded bonuses. Like most other high-tech companies, Oracle has seen demand for […]

Sixty-four-bit computing is coming to the desktop next year, but Intel Corp. is gambling that the demand for such power will remain only for high-end enterprise systems. At the Microprocessor Forum here last week, IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., became the second chip maker to announce a 64-bit product for use in desktops. The 1.8GHz PowerPC […]

While much of the IT industry has been struggling in the midst of a protracted recession, Dell Computer Corp. has prospered, recently posting a 22 percent increase in quarterly revenues. Dells business model—making standard products and selling them directly—has remained constant, although the company is pursuing new initiatives, such as IT services, printers and handheld […]

Its becoming routine: while the majority of it hardware vendors announce losses, mask weak sales, merge or get out of the business, Dell announces strong sales growth. The company did that two weeks ago when it announced that revenues would be up 22 percent over the same quarter a year ago. Since its founding a […]