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Intels Napa Wireless Platform Promises More with Less

NEW YORK—Intel Corp. is touting its next mobile platform, dubbed Napa, as another major milestone in notebook PC history. At a session for reporters and...

Thunderbird 1.5 Gets Ready to Fly

The first version of the Mozilla Foundations Thunderbird was a serviceable e-mail client; the latest version may be a great one. At first, Thunderbird Version...

MS Exchange 12 Beta Brings Unified Messaging

Microsoft Corp. will on Wednesday release the first beta of Exchange "12"—the next version of its e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging server—to a closed...

IBM Forms Global Alliance with Red Hat, Novell

IBM has elevated Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. to highest-tier partner status by making them members of its Strategic Alliance program. The...

Quanta Building MITs $100 Laptops

The Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Lab has announced that Taiwanese device maker Quanta Computer Inc. has been selected to design and build the...

Where Do You Put Your Security Dollars?

In a recent panel discussion I was on it was suggested that spending on the conventional threat mitigation aspects of security was headed for...

HP Counts on Servers, Software and Services

Hewlett-Packard Co. says its getting down to business. Senior executives from the Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant, including its recently-appointed CEO, Mark Hurd, converged in...

AMD Pushes for Greater Enterprise Share

AUSTIN, Texas—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is looking to use its AMD64 technology to drive adoption of such form factors as blade servers and client-side...

AMD, Intel Extend Manufacturing in Asia

Chip makers advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. are looking to make moves in Asia to keep up with their expanding businesses. Intel last...

Intel Researchers Sneak Up on Rootkits

Intel Corp.s researchers are working to outwit cyber attackers, including those employing stealthy rootkits. The chip makers Communications Technology Lab, in a project called System...