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Seeking to further bolster enterprise sales, Advanced Micro Devices today introduced a new chip designed for dual-processor workstations and servers, the 1.8GHz Athlon MP 2200+. The new Athlon MP, priced at $224 in $1,000-unit quantities, is the third and final product to migrate to the chip makers 0.13-micron manufacturing processor, which allows for smaller transistors […]

Apple Computer Inc.s Power Mac G4 computers are now for sale in server configurations from the companys online and retail stores, a spokesman from the Cupertino, Calif., company said today. The servers run the Mac OS X Server 10.2 software. The basic configuration has dual 1GHz processors, a 120GB hard drive, 256MB RAM and a […]

Sales continue to slump at Hewlett-Packard Co., which Tuesday released its first earnings to reflect the acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. in May, underscoring rival companies assertions that the giant computer maker is losing customers. For the quarter, HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., recorded revenues of $16.5 billion, down 9 percent from the $18.2 […]

Unisys Corp. threw its hat into the storage management software ring today, with a new product called Storage Sentinel. At the core of the product is virtualization, which is the concept of managing disparate storage categories and vendors as a single pool. The product will be available Sept. 4 and will initially work with various […]

Cisco Systems Inc. last week rolled out its first enterprise storage switches, but it could be awhile before the networking vendor wins over users, said some enterprise IT managers. The San Jose, Calif., company has to contend with established competitors Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and McData Corp. In addition, storage switch interoperability is difficult because […]

The Color of a Palm Device For months, handheld user groups have speculated about whether the Palm M130 is really a 12-bit and not a 16-bit color device, as the company claimed when introducing the product last March. The speculation was correct. The M130 does use a 12-bit screen. Through a color-blending process called dithering, […]

After seven months of beating the pavement looking for work, one online ad looked like an open door to the Austin, Texas, C++ programmer, what with its request for mainframe and C++ skills. “I worked on mainframes at IBM for 12 years and then switched to C and C++ programming,” said the 43-year-old, who requested […]

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The dot-com bust may have crushed the initial interest in blade servers, but major computer makers are now championing the designs by touting ultradense systems with more muscle. Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will introduce the industrys first dual-processor blade, highlighting the push by top-tier vendors to offer designs that are more robust than those introduced […]

Hundreds of people responded to our July 29 Tech Analysis on LCD vs. CRT monitor technology. A large majority of these respondents said we understated energy claims by not factoring in HVAC costs (which we did, albeit stealthily). Others said that size does matter with LCDs because they can reduce cube and storage space and […]

Dell Computer Corp., reversing its long-held strategy of dealing directly with customers, is now offering unbranded, low-cost PCs to U.S. white-box makers, essentially smaller vendors that can relabel the PCs as their own brand. Dell, which has long spurned the idea of selling its products through third parties, said last week it hopes to garner […]