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Linux Business-Desktop Options Grow

Several Linux desktop vendors have recently made moves to improve their business offerings. Xandros Inc. had the biggest announcement with the release of the latest...

AMD Details Early Quad-Core Plans

In a detailed briefing for analysts in New York on Friday, executives at Advanced Micro Devices painted the company as making "irreversible progress" into...

Microsoft, Adobe Apps Expected to Be Most Difficult to Port to Intel Macs

At Apples WWDC this week, the company said that applications written as Carbon applications, such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, would be the...

IBM Sees Open Source as Road to Bolstering Chip Biz

IBM, having thrown open its Power chip architecture, is becoming the new pied piper for open-source chips. The companys chip group is now looking to...

Mac Retailers Reactions to Intel Move Are Mixed

Apples announcement that it will migrate its Macintosh line of computers away from the PowerPC architecture in favor of CPUs from Intel came as...

Linux Desktop Must Work to Head Off Straying Users

Ive been flooded by e-mails and phone calls from people giving me their two cents on how they think the future of desktop computing...

Pentium M May Become Next Apple Core

Apple may choose Intels Pentium M to become the first Intel chip inside a new generation of portables and small desktop computers. The computer maker,...

Seagate Introduces Hardware-Encrypted Notebook Hard Drive

Citing the need for improved security on mobile computing devices, Seagate Technology LLC today introduced a hard drive with full disk encryption. Based on the...

PowerPC Linux Vendors Are Sticking with It

Apple may be moving away from IBMs PowerPC chips, but Linux vendors are sticking with the POWER architecture. On Monday, Steve Jobs rocked the Mac...

PowerPC Teeters on Edge of Uncertainty

Its the end of the PowerPC as we know it. But most everyone feels fine. Just one day after Apple Computer Inc. said it would...