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Sony-NEC Optical Merger May Be An Uneasy Alliance

Sony and NEC agreed to merge the optical disk-drive operations of both companies on Thursday, a move that will combine members of the two...

Intel Mobilizes M18 Smart-Phone Chips

Intel Corp. launched its newest chips designed for use in so-called smart phones on Thursday, introducing the latest version of its StrataFlash Cellular Memory,...

Bridging the Vista Graphics Gap

Graphics performance, which has long been an afterthought for most corporate PCs and many consumers, will move to the forefront with the launch of...

AMD Shoots for Quad Cores

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is planning for quads. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker is aiming to roll out a quad-core-capable processor family during 2007 and...

Dell CFO: Services, Peripherals Beat PCs

NEW YORK—Less than a week after Dell Computer Corp. posted third-quarter sales results that disappointed much of Wall Street, the vendors chief financial officer,...

Appro to Open Compute on Demand Center

Appro International next quarter will open an on-demand supercomputing service aimed at the oil and gas industry. The Compute on Demand Center, in Houston,...

AMD Passes Intel in Retail Desktop Market

Advanced Micro Devices has been moving up in the retail world, a new report shows. But despite gaining share in desktops, AMD continues to...

Intel Brings Virtualization to Desktop PCs

Virtualization technology has begun its arrival on the desktop. Intel Corp. on Monday began offering desktop PC processors with virtualization, a technology that can partition...

Neoware Rolls Out New Thin-Client Devices

Thin-client vendor Neoware is rolling out several new devices designed to improve manageability and security while reducing costs. Neoware Systems Inc. is filling in its...

Does Patent Show What Apple Plans for OS X on Intel?

Clues in a patent filed by Apple in 2004 but just made public Nov. 3 by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office point to...