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Sun, Savvis Team on Utility Desktops

Savvis Communications Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are teaming up to give businesses a utility computing environment for their desktops. At the Securities Industry Association...

HP Rolls Out New AMD-Based Servers, Notebook

Hewlett-Packard Co. is growing the parts of its hardware product lines that use processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HP on Wednesday is outfitting several...

Dell Cant Wait for High-Performance Server Chips

The arrival of processors with baked-in virtualization stands to elevate everyday business servers, broadening their appeal, Dells server chief said Wednesday. The Round Rock, Texas,...

Transforming Transmeta

Transmeta Corp., which once captivated the PC industry with its Crusoe processor for notebooks, is repositioning itself as a journeyman technology provider for low-power...

HP Names New PSG Head

Hewlett-Packard Co., five months after combining its PC and printing businesses, last week separated the two and appointed a new head to the PC...

Hannover Shifts Notes Course

IBM is developing a next-generation Lotus Notes client that incorporates many of the rich-client features of the companys Lotus Workplace offering and may ultimately...

Gateway Leader Pushes Customer Intimacy

When he took the reins at Gateway in March 2004, Wayne Inouyes first job was to right a company that had been battered by...

Gateway Aims for Success After Transition

Since taking over the CEO post at Gateway Inc. in March 2004—after the companys $289 million acquisition of eMachines Inc.—Wayne Inouye has remade the...

Notebook Makers Cautiously Await MIMO for Wireless Boost

Notebook PC makers are beginning to make room for MIMO. Companies such as Dell Inc. and Gateway Inc. are eager to add MIMO (multiple input,...

Apple Cuts Out Single-Core Power Macs

Apple is phasing out its single-processor Power Mac G5, effectively shifting the desktop line to dual-processors. The desktops, which Apple Computer Inc. updated in April...