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PC maker Gateway Inc. on Thursday reported a net loss of $49.7 million for the third quarter, and overall sales continued to decline as stiff price competition from Dell Computer Corp. continues to erode the companys market share. For the third quarter, Gateway recorded sales of $1.12 billion, a 20 percent decline from a year […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday announced it will cut 4,400 jobs, or about 11 percent of its workforce, after reporting it lost $111 million for the quarter. Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy said that while the Santa Clara, Calif., company regretted having to lay off workers, he contended that the layoffs were essentially to assure […]

Dell Computer Corp. has regained its crown as the worldwide leader in PC sales, according to a new report, but the news wasnt totally bad for the dethroned Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., saw its U.S. sales surge 15 percent during the third quarter, well above the 6 percent rise for total U.S. […]

“You lost access to that site because the DHCP server was giving you a static IP to allow you to pass through the firewall. When you got your new workstation, we forgot to assign the same privileges to your new MAC address.” Okay, you probably know what that means, and its a perfectly accurate and […]

Apple Computer Inc. posted its first net loss in almost two years as shipments of its top-selling Macs fell 14 percent from a year ago. The computer maker also warned investors on Wednesday that it expects its holiday sales will provide little to cheer about. “We do not expect our industry to pick up any […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Offering a possible peek at how Itanium processors may look in 2007, a senior Intel Corp. engineer on Tuesday unveiled the blueprint for a 1 billion-transistor processor. Although he discounted the idea that he was making a product announcement, Intel Fellow John Crawford nevertheless appeared to strongly suggest that his blueprint of a […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday revealed the first performance data on its upcoming 64-bit Operton processor, disclosing impressive data results achieved on its chip running at 2GHz and positioning it to go after Intel Corp.s 32-bit Xeon in the two-way and four-way server market. AMDs presentation at the Microprocessor Forum here marked […]

Blade server pioneer RLX Technologies Inc. plans to expand its product line later this year and twice in 2003. With larger companies like Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM entering the space, RLX must differentiate while it can, Chief Technology Officer Bob VanSteenberg said in an interview. A new generation of The Woodlands, Texas, companys low-end product […]

Intel Corp. Tuesday drew a gloomy picture for the high-tech industry as the giant chip maker reported earnings below expectations and said it expects little pickup in sales this holiday season, which traditionally has been the strongest quarter of the year. The chip maker, which produces the majority of microprocessors sold in PCs and servers […]

The storage divisions of IBM, Hitachi Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. today will announce collective support for the Common Information Model and Bluefin specifications. CIM is an evolving language for storage hardware and software to speak the same management language. Its details, along with the Bluefin implementation standard, are still evolving from […]

NEW YORK—America Online is returning to its customer-centric roots, trumpeted company executives who kicked off the start of a multi-million-dollar AOL 8.0 marketing campaign here on Tuesday. “Watch out Bill Gates and Microsoft. Here we come,” quipped Richard Parsons, CEO of AOL Time Warner, to rousing audience applause. Microsoft is slated to launch its rival […]

Enterprise tape specialist Quantum Corp. is spinning off its NAS [network-attached storage] products into a new company. The new company, Snap Appliance Inc., will pay Quantum $11.3 million to take over the Snap Server and Guardian product families and will acquire privately owned Broadband Storage Inc., of Irvine, Calif., separately for an undisclosed sum, officials […]