UC Berkeley is offering a new course for 2009 on the "art of competitive StarCraft", as well as how to enjoy the game. As yet, the course is not listed on the UC Berkeley website,... More...

Microsoft's partners are excited about the vendor's plans to offer a tool for remotely managing their customers' infrastructure, but some feel the initial pricing for the product is unrealistically high. At its worldwide partner conference... More...

Persistent weak DRAM pricing has prompted more DRAM makers to offer their chips in effectively tested (eTT) form, meaning reducing demand and weakening sales at testing houses. Following Elpida Memory's increase in its eTT sales... More...

Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering. Availabile Software and Hardware... More...

AMD's goal is to reach a 30% share in the quad-core server market in 2007, sources at the company recently revealed. When AMD increased its share from 10% to 20%, the low volumes needed, made... More...

IBM is offering $20,000 to customers to switch from Microsoft Exchange to IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino platform, part of a new "Migrate to the Penguin" program, which is part of IBM's "Move2Lotus" program. The... More...

PC, PSP, PS2, and Xbox versions of Mafia-movie adaptation not arriving until Q1 2006; Xbox 360 edition due sometime "later." Although Q4 2005 was already looking packed with game releases, there was... More...

Ilovebees.com-style game on ourcolony.net appears to reward visitors with glimpses of Microsoft's next-generation controller. Last year, Microsoft intrigued some and infuriated many with a viral marketing campaign to help hype its now-multi-platinum... More...

Advanced Micro Devices plans to unfurl next week a blueprint for building a low-price computer aimed at providing Internet access to people in so-called emerging markets. Dubbed the Personal Internet Communicator, the... More...

Skype plans to offer a business telephone service for "individuals and workgroups, not CIOs" that the free Internet phone service provider believes will shake-up another major telephone market. Winning over business will not be an... More...

Cambridge Display Technology, a developer of next-generation screens for consumer electronics devices, has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cambridge, England-based CDT filed late last week... More...

Microsoft is hot on the trail of location-based services for cell phones. On Monday at the CTIA Wireless 2004 show here, the software giant announced partnerships with U.S. cell phone service provider Sprint... More...

America Online Inc. has quietly stopped offering a complete broadband package, requiring subscribers to instead obtain their high-speed Internet connections directly from a cable modem or DSL provider. The reversal in strategy stands... More...

Opera Software's Board of Directors yesterday decided to issue between 12.5-16.1 million new shares in relation to its announced Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE). In addition, existing shareholders have decided... More...

Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron chip in server computers, according to people familiar with the matter, adding momentum to AMD's challenge to industry leader Intel Corp. in supplying the lucrative... More...

Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini on Wednesday said the world's largest chip maker would likely give its 32-bit microprocessors an upgrade to 64 bits once supporting software becomes available. "You can be... More...

Thanks Bink...Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of WM PLUGINS.COM the premier resource and catalog of enhancements from 20 different companies and Microsoft for extending the Windows Media® Player 9 Series experience for Windows® XP.... More...

Yahoo! said Thursday that it has stopped offering AOL's popular MapQuest service on its site, and instead has built its own service offering consumers driving directions and street locaters. Yahoo, which is... More...

3Com Corp. is looking for beta testers to evaluate their new V.92 modem software that offers 30% to 40% higher throughput with the new V.44 compression standard, quicker connection times, and a Modem on Hold... More...