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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday released what it says is the fastest PC processor on the market. However, the Athlon XP 1800+, a 1.53GHz chip, clocked 470MHz slower than its top rival from Intel Corp. That apparent paradox highlights the difficult marketing challenge facing AMD. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company will try to convince consumers that […]

AT&T Wireless bought affiliate TeleCorp PCS in what may be the first of other similar acquisitions by AT&T Wireless. Sprint PCS, which also has an affiliate program, may not start scooping up its partners anytime soon. AT&T Wireless on Monday said it would acquire the remaining 77 percent of TeleCorp PCS that it didnt already […]

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, Oct. 9, introduced a slew of new products and services for enterprises and wireless operators, aimed at tapping into the mobility marketplace. HP believes that its addressable market in the mobility space will grow to $80 billion in 2004. “Our opinion is that mobility is the next step along the evolution of […]

A federal bankruptcy court has revived three lawsuits accusing ICG Communications of racial discrimination and corporate misconduct in the companys Southern California offices. Three suits, covering nine plaintiffs, were filed two years ago against ICG by Manning, Marder & Wolfe of Los Angeles, a firm that normally defends corporations over employment issues. But the lawsuits […]

Old fogies – those of us over 21 – never experienced the Internet during our formative years, which makes it difficult to predict where the Internet or its successor will take us. So Wetzel Consulting went to the experts, asking kids ages 12 to 18 how they use the Internet today, how they want and […]

BEA Appoints New CEO Application server market leader BEA Systems got a new CEO last week. The company looked in-house to replace Bill Coleman, BEAs chief executive since it was founded in 1995. Albert Chuang, who co-founded BEA with Coleman and has served as president and chief operating officer for the past two years, is […]

A child born eight years ago has never known a world without a World Wide Web. A 7-year-old came into this world along with the first online banner ad. Six-year-olds were born the year the Federal Networking Council bestowed the official definition “Internet” on a rapidly branching series of networks blooming with thousands of services. […]

Senior Americans are flocking to the Internet. And given their leisure time and purchasing power, its time to crank up the bandwidth at Web sites devoted to health care, genealogy, travel, photography, e-mail, investments, scuba diving and about 1,000 other pursuits. “Its been incredible,” 71-year-old retired social worker Elinor Sheldon said of her forays onto […]

Sendy Lopez buys hundreds of dollars worth of books and CDs through the Internet, both for herself and her Hispanic friends. They turn to her for help because they dont have access to the Internet or they cant read English or theyre uncomfortable making an electronic purchase. “There arent enough sites in Spanish,” said Lopez, […]