Mark Hachman

Hewlett-Packard Co. has quietly begun shipping its first notebooks containing Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s Athlon 64 processor. HPs low-key rollout follows the launch of the eMachines M6805 notebook in January, the reason the PC giant played down the release, HP executives said. Two new Athlon 64 notebooks, the HP Pavilion zv5000z and the Compaq R3000Z, […]

On Tuesday, General Micro Systems Inc. will announce its first “modular” server blade. Called “Spider,” the PowerPC-based blade is 30 percent smaller than a credit card and promises to spare telecom customers from building new sites. GMS, designer of single-board computers fashioned around the embedded VMEbus and CompactPCI standards, plans to discuss the Spider at […]

Intel Corp. easily maintained its position as the top semiconductor supplier in the world in 2003, holding a market share roughly 2.5 times larger than its nearest competitor. However, market data published Thursday by Semico Research Corp., of Phoenix, found that several of the top 10 chip suppliers of 2003 lost market share, as startups […]

Dell Computer Corp. has no plans to develop Opteron servers “today,” contradicting a French report that Dell officials said misquoted founder Michael Dell. French IT publication o1net quoted Michael Dell as saying, “Quant à savoir si proposer à la fois des serveurs Intel et AMD au catalogue a un sens, la réponse est clairement oui,” […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. took several steps forward in enforcing digital rights management on consumer devices Tuesday, licensing Intel Corp.s DRM scheme and co-developing a similar technology with Royal Philips Electronics NV. In all, HP licensed Intels high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) technology, to be used for transmitting content to wired displays throughout the home. HP also […]

An official for Intel Corp. denied a report Monday that said the companys 3.0GHz “Prescott” chip has been delayed until April. Taiwan IT daily Digitimes reported that Intel delayed shipments of the 3GHz Prescott chip from mid-March, due to problems at the companys wafer foundry. However, Intel spokesman George Alfs said the 3GHz chip has […]

Target Corp. will phase out its smart-chip program, according to one of the retailers suppliers. Catuity Inc., a provider of loyalty software, on Monday said that Target will phase out its smart card system over the next 12 months. Unlike standard credit cards that use a magnetic strip, smart-card technology stores data on a small […]

Intel Corp. published a specification for improving the efficiency of a PCs power supply Thursday, an effort an environmental nonprofit applauded. Version 2.0 of Intels 12-volt power supply document addresses the power supplies used in todays PCs. The new specification indirectly acknowledges that many PCs dont need to run at their full power for such […]

Texas Instruments Inc. this week introduced the second generation of the companys OMAP architecture, ushering hardware-based 3D into cell phones. TI introduced two chips, the OMAP 2410 and 2420, at the 3GSM show in Cannes this week. The chips contain the PowerVR MBX core designed by Imagination Technologies, allowing the cell-phone chip to process about […]

SAN FRANCISCO—PostX Corp. plans to expand its secure e-mail delivery technology into a system for verifying e-mail and preventing so-called “phishing” attacks. The Cupertino, Calif., company also joined with the Business Software Alliance, Microsoft Corp., RSA Security, VeriSign Inc. and others in the Coalition on Online Identity Theft, a consortium organized last September by the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A collection of chief information security officers have formed an independent think tank to develop quantitative metrics for network security. The Security Metrics Consortium, or SecMet, hopes to remove some of the fuzziness that quantitative assessments of a companys security preparedness can offer. Attaching numbers to a networks security will help a chief information […]

PacketHop Inc.s wireless mesh network has successfully passed a field test by several California state agencies, according to the companys CEO. PacketHop, whose software is designed to reroute and heal a constantly shifting mesh of wireless connections, was put to the test by the Golden Gate Safety Network, a collection of 12 agencies, including representatives […]