Mark Hachman

Lindows.com today announced a version of its WebStation terminal designed for businesses, the BusinessStation. Like the Lindows WebStation, the BusinessStation was designed to allow users minimal flexibility in choosing applications or adjusting settings, but to also minimize potential configuration problems that might arise as an IT administrator set up, deployed and administered the new systems. […]

Symantec will add digital-rights-management technology to its entire 2004 consumer product line, requiring customers to activate products such as Norton Antivirus 2004. In April, Symantec said it had added an undisclosed DRM software package to selected versions of Norton Antivirus 2003, which the company termed a “pilot” program at the time. Now, the company said […]

D-Link Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it has begun shipping a line of gateway products designed for small and medium businesses. The D-Link Airspot Gateway DSA-3100 combines a firewall, router and SMTP server, and is designed for small businesses like coffee shops, suburban airports and hotels, according to Anna-Marie Claassen, a spokeswoman for the company. […]

MPC Computers, formerly Micron PC, announced Tuesday that it had acquired the PC division of Omni Tech Corp., giving MPC an entrance into a second niche, the education market. MPC, which has traditionally concentrated on its customers in the U.S. federal and state governments, acquired the End User Division of Omni Tech, a privately held […]

In a months time, Intel and its partners will offer consumers the chance to check out the “unwired life” by offering them a chance to use WiFi services free of a charge for a single day. In three events to be held simultaneously on Sept. 25, a number of hardware and service providers will fete […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. this month began shipping a stripped-down Duron processor, the company confirmed Monday, challenging Via Technologies in the market for low-end computing. The “Model 8” Duron processor, also known to some customers as the “Applebred,” contains only 64KB of cache, compared with the 128KB of cache used by conventional Durons. However, AMD […]

IBM Corp. has begun a real-world test of its grid-computing system by turning to a familiar geek pastime: games. In conjunction with IBM, a group of college students from the University of Wisconsin developed GameGrid, a derivative of IBMs OptimalGrid effort. The students adapted the open-source version of id Softwares Quake 2 first-person shooter, and […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.— Conventional methods of fabricating semiconductors will remain the same for about a decade, but the Department of Defenses research agency is already considering alternatives, a top government official said Tuesday afternoon. Robert Leheny, deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), told an audience at the Hot Chips conference here […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—A clever implementation of simultaneous multithreading will allow IBM Corp.s Power5 processor to increase performance by 40 percent compared with the Power4, while only increasing the per-core die size by about 24 percent. Simultaneous multithreading, which Intel Corp. has marketed as “hyperthreading”, allows the processor to operate on whichever instruction stream, or “thread,” […]

PALO ALTO, CALIF.–The chip powering Disneys forthcoming MovieBeam set-top box will be supplied by Dotcast, executives said, and the company is already working on a chip to datacast movies and other data over DTV. MovieBeam, first disclosed this past spring at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, will “datacast” movies over […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Executives of Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday divulged more details of “Gemini,” the processor that will power Suns blade servers and low-end workstations beginning in 2004. Gemini combines two older UltraSparc II cores onto a single die with the JBus unit, used in conjunction with Suns latest UltraSparc III processors. Sun said the […]

Apple Computer Inc. said Monday it had begun shipping its new 64-bit Power Macintosh G5s to customers. “Were talking about full-fledged shipments,” said Greg Jozwiak, Apples vice president of hardware product marketing, in an interview Monday morning. Although Apple could have been dealt a blow when foundry partner IBM acknowledged Friday that its fab in […]