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Lenovo Hangs Up Virtual Shingle

Lenovo Group Ltd. has established a new online outpost, with a look at things to come. The Chinese PC giant, which completed its acquisition of...

A Motherboard with Built-In Wi-Fi: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe

Plenty of nForce 4–based motherboards have come across our doorstep in the past couple of months, but we only recently got our hands on...

Has IBM Bitten Off More Than It Can Integrate?

WESTBORO, Mass.—Like a cherry on top of a sundae, IBMs Information Management division on Wednesday put its newly acquired Ascential data integration technology on...

AMD: No Single Cores Left Behind

Sometimes two processor cores arent any better than one.Despite introducing Athlon 64 X2 desktop PC and Opteron server processors, with dual cores or two...

Dangers Lurk Along Windows 64-Bit Upgrade Path

Microsoft Corp. is encouraging PC owners to make the move to 64-bit software with a cut-price upgrade offer for its Windows XP Professional Edition...

Orion System Ships With 96 Processors

Orion Multisystems last week began shipping a 96-processor clustered workstation aimed at users who want to run complex tasks on their desktops.The DS-96 is...

Keep Your Eye on Ubuntu Linux

If youre a watcher of the world of Linux distributions, youve likely been hearing about Ubuntu, a relatively new entrant thats managed to win...

Lenovo Completes Purchase of IBMs PC Business

Lenovo Group Ltd. has completed the $1.75 billion purchase of IBMs PC business. The two companies announced the closing of the deal Sunday. The purchase...

Sober Virus Preys on World Cup Soccer Fans

Theres no such thing as a free World Cup soccer ticket, especially those that arrive via unsolicited e-mails. Thats the message from anti-virus vendors flagging...

Sun May Speed Up Niagara Release

Suns upcoming "Niagara" systems will be shipping no later than early 2006, and could even start rolling out earlier. Andy Ingram, vice president of marketing...