Intel unveils budget Itaniums
Intel will release a pair of Itanium 2 processors optimized for rack-mounted servers and clusters on Monday as it attempts to expand the chip family's reach. The Low Voltage Itanium 2, formerly code-named Deerfield, and a scaled-down version of the latest Itanium 2 chip are largely designed to fit inside... Read on »
Chips Could Crunch at Light Speed
Researchers at IBM have used carbon molecules to emit light, a breakthrough that could replace silicon as the foundation of chips and lead to faster computers and telecommunication equipment. The focus of the research team was ultratiny, tube-shaped carbon molecules, or nanotubes, that are more than 50,000 times thinner than... Read on »
Sony Buys Sonic Foundry Products
Faced with losses and tough competition from much larger companies, Sonic Foundry has agreed to sell its desktop audio and music production product family to Sony Pictures Digital for $18 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities and obligations, the companies announced Friday. The deal involves a handful... Read on »
Judge rejects class-action in Microsoft suits
A federal judge on Monday rejected class-action status for more than 60 consumer lawsuits pending against Microsoft, but allowed a more limited... Read on »
Windows gets tough on spam, viruses
Microsoft on Monday will detail a future version of Windows that will make it easier to detect and isolate viruses. Additionally, the... Read on »
New Kits Upgrade Hard Drives to Serial ATA
Addonics launches its Serial ATA product lineup this week, including a conversion adapter that makes existing parallel ATA (commonly called IDE) and ATAPI drives compatible with the new standard. The $35 converter--available next week--attaches to an existing IDE or ATAPI drive and lets users take advantage of many Serial ATA... Read on »
Microsoft Changes Windows Start Menu
Microsoft has agreed to reposition a program in the Windows XP Start menu so users can more easily set non-Microsoft programs as their default choices, as part of the company's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Microsoft has agreed to make the Set Program Access and Defaults icon... Read on »
Spam: We're Losing
The bad news for those of us combating spam is... we're losing. Despite an ever-escalating hue and cry from consumers, legislators, businesses, marketers, ISPs, and a burgeoning number of anti-spam coalitions, organizations, and task forces, the problem has grown worse -- much, much worse. Mutterings that spam could kill e-mail... Read on »
HP chops Unix server prices
Hewlett-Packard has cut prices for its midrange Unix servers by about 20 percent, in an attempt to thwart renewed competition from rivals Sun Microsystems and IBM. The price cuts, which HP intends to announce Thursday, apply to the eight-processor rp4705 and rp7410 systems and to the 16-processor rp8400, said Dimitris... Read on »
Tech firms respond to deadly illness
Sun Microsystems and ATI Technologies are the latest tech companies to see their plans in Asia disrupted by fears of a deadly flulike disease. Concerns about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) led computer-maker Sun to cancel the Shanghai portion of a massive product launch it had scheduled for April 7,... Read on »
Tech sector hit hard with job cuts
The technology sector has trimmed its work force by 10 percent over the last two years, with manufacturing jobs bearing the brunt of the cuts, according to a new report. The American Electronics Association (AEA), a trade group that represents 3,000 technology companies, said the U.S. high-tech industry shed about... Read on »
RIAA turns up heat on file-trading at work
An attack on corporate use of peer-to-peer software is under way, as companies face increasing pressure from record labels and other copyright holders to stop employees from file trading. The latest salvo against companies came last week, when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent letters to about 300... Read on »
Via introduces CPU with integrated chipset
Via Technologies Thursday will introduce a 1GHz processor with an integrated Northbridge chip that will allow vendors to build smaller PCs. Called Mark, the chip includes a 1GHz C3 processor and Via's Pro Savage CLE266 Northbridge chip, which is one of the components that comprise the Northbridge-Southbridge chipset architecture used... Read on »
SIS to ship Xabre 2 graphics chip in July
Looking to break into the end-user market for add-in graphics boards, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SIS) plans to release an upgraded version of its Xabre graphics chip in July, according to a company executive. Called Xabre 2, the updated chip is expected to make its first public appearance at the... Read on »
Laptop makers mobilize Pentium-M models
PC manufacturers are coming out with a slew of new notebooks containing Intel's Pentium-M processor, and executives claim that goes a long way toward improving the laptop experience. Dell Computer, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others will start selling new notebooks for the business and consumer markets that feature the Pentium-M, an... Read on »
E-mail scam tries to fool PayPal users
PayPal subscribers are being targeted by a fraudulent e-mail scheme designed to con them into handing over their personal information. Over the past week, users of eBay's online payments service have been receiving e-mails masquerading as official PayPal alerts, eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove confirmed Friday. The messages ask recipents to... Read on »
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