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Intel Corp. today released its fastest mobile Pentium 4 chip, but customers will have to pay a premium if they hope to tap the power of the high-performance processor. Confirming an earlier report, the company today unveiled its new 2GHz Pentium 4-M at an initial price of $637 per chip (in 1,000-unit shipments), about 80 […]

Microsoft Corp. this week touted details of its security initiative, code-named Palladium, which it contends will ultimately make the world a safer place for computers tied to the Internet. But while Microsoft representatives in a magazine article portrayed the company as prodding the industry to boost security, other top PC and processor makers disagreed, contending […]

IBM Thursday confirmed that the company laid off about 160 employees from its Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Almaden, Calif., research facilities as part of ongoing, companywide cost-cutting. Officials, however, denied reports that as many as 4,000 employees had been cut from the companys operations in Germany. A spokesman in Yorktown Heights said the cuts there […]

Dragged down by the ongoing tech spending slowdown, IT salaries continued to slide in the first quarter of this year, although employers continue to be willing to pay more to employees who have certified security, database, project management, and systems and network operating system skills, according to a recently released survey of 30,000 IT professionals […]

The next releases of Microsofts SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and its sister technology, SharePoint Team Services (SPTS), are both going to get “smarter” next year. Microsoft is working on a new user interface for these two products called Smart Pages, company officials confirm. Smart Pages will use profile information input by users to populate applications […]

The lucky few selected to beta test Windows XPs new Freestyle technology have a new toy to play with. Microsoft shipped to Freestyle testers a beta version of the multimedia interface designed to be used with a remote control from across the room. “The Freestyle beta release kit will include a PC and all the […]

Then The judge in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust settlement case surprised both sides in the hours before closing arguments were set to begin with an order that indicates she is looking for a compromise to both the DOJ-approved settlement and the request for stricter remedies from dissenting states. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly asked both sides to […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. today will unveil the first new product introductions to its newly acquired line of NonStop Himalaya servers, high-end computing systems it acquired in its buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. last month. The NonStop servers, which sell for an average of more than $1 million a piece, are highly valued for their ability to […]

Intel Corp. announced Tuesday that it plans to shut down its Web hosting business over the next 12 months, reflecting the companys continued efforts to cut its operating expenses as it tries to ride out an ongoing slump in its overall sales. The decision will have an immediate impact on the companys bottom line, with […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will offer Red Hat Linux Advanced Server software on most of its server and workstation platforms this fall, including systems featuring Intel Corp.s upcoming Itanium 2 processor, HP and Red Hat Inc. announced Tuesday. HP, which co-developed the Itanium chip, said it expects to be the first vendor to offer preinstalled Linux on […]

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it will file antitrust charges against memory designer Rambus Inc., accusing the company of manipulating an industry standards group to secure profits by seeking royalties from memory makers worldwide. Many of the worlds largest memory chipmakers have accused Rambus of illegally taking advantage of its access to a nonprofit […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday launched a new multiprocessor workstation and server chip, the Athlon MP 2100+, but the news was largely overshadowed by the companys dour mid-quarter update late Tuesday. The 1.73GHz chip is designed for use in single- and dual-CPU workstations and servers. The chip succeeds a 1.67GHz Athlon MP 2000+ as […]