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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. next week will release a new processor to challenge Intel Corp. in the high-end PC market, but the chips debut comes amid an ongoing industry slump and growing concerns about AMDs eroding customer base. In the last two months, PC makers IBM and Gateway Inc. have announced plans to phase out […]

IBM Wednesday added its most powerful Unix server yet to its lineup, a 32-way system featuring its new “server on a chip” microprocessor architecture, the 1GHz 64-bit Power4. The eServer p690, known by the code name Regatta, also features self-healing technologies to reduce system failures and has the capability to be divided into as many […]

Business conferences have felt the ripple effect of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, primarily from the reluctance of some attendees and exhibitors to fly to the locations. Some conferences were postponed, others outright canceled. Mercury Interactive Corp., a maker of network load testing equipment, didnt cancel its user conference later this month, only moved it […]

The American publics scaled-back travel plans could not have come at a worse time for the handheld market. Without a highly mobile work force, the need for handhelds fall off a cliff. “Our worst pre-Sept. 11 scenario is now our best-case scenario,” says International Data Corp. analyst Kevin Burden. Indeed, IDC has scaled back its […]

After months of quiet promotion, IBM today launched its Regatta-based server, a machine it believes will bolster its years-long effort to steal market share from Sun Microsystems in the lucrative Unix server market. The new server, the p690 eServer, is based on IBMs newest chip, code named Regatta. The Power4 microprocessor is based on copper […]

Zeroknowledge has announced it will shut its anonymous browsing and e-mail service Freedom Network on Oct. 22. Company officials said the move was not related in any way to the recent spate of terrorist activity. The service is designed for netizens who are hyper-privacy conscious and offers users the ability to move invisibly through the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal governments chief online privacy cop announced on Thursday, Oct. 4, that he believes legislation buttressing consumer privacy is not necessary. “The challenges for new legislation are daunting,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris said during a speech in Cleveland, Ohio. “It is too soon to conclude that we can fashion […]

Movie and music industry associations on Wednesday, Oct. 3, filed a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits against three peer-to-peer file sharing companies, including MusicCity Networks, which operates the popular Morpheus service. “We cannot sit idly by while these services continue to operate illegally, especially at a time when new legitimate services are being launched,” […]

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives today is expected to sign-off on an amended version of a sweeping anti-terrorism proposal crafted by the U.S. Department of Justice, but the bill faces stiffer opposition in the Senate. The Bush administration is pushing Congress hard to pass the package, which would relax surveillance laws to make it […]

Revenue is falling faster than maple leaves at Nortel Networks, as Frank Dunn prepares to succeed John Roth as CEO of an equipment company that will be 50,000 people fewer and $3.8 billion shorter than it was at the beginning of the year. Dunn, 47, named Tuesday to succeed Roth, earned $1.5 million in salary […]

Four versions of Linux have outstripped UnixWare in D.H. Brown Associates comparative analysis of operating systems, the first time Linux has surpassed any version of Unix. “The gap between Linux and Unix systems has certainly closed at a rapid pace,” said Tony Iams, senior analyst and author of the study, 2001 Linux Function Review. At […]

A minor battle brewing in the DLT cartridge business may affect future licensing deals and the price of the tapes themselves. The digital linear tapes, built on technology developed by the defunct Digital Equipment Corp. and acquired by Quantum Corp. in late 1994, are sold by Quantum and by licensees Fuji Photo Film USA Inc. […]