The chipmaker is shaving up to 20 percent from prices for Athlon XP chips in an effort to make AMD-based PCs more attractive to buyers. It hopes Duron cuts will also spark interest.
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Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, says he will not publicize details about how to circumvent the controls on a DVD player.
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VIA Hardware has published a new article: Why the Buzz on AMD's Hammer won't quit
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives would dramatically rewrite federal law to permit copyright owners to legally hack into peer-to-peer networks.
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The bankrupt company, one of Europe's largest Internet backbone providers, switched off Wednesday but is now coming back online.
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Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has formed a technology committee to study such key issues as the company's transition to Itanium processors.
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Microsoft has released Windows
XP Service Pack 1 build 1079 to the beta testers. This Build is not RC1. Thanks NaTaN.
Registered beta testers can download this build from the Windows Beta Website
XP Service Pack 1 build 1079 to the beta testers. This Build is not RC1. Thanks NaTaN.Registered beta testers can download this build from the Windows Beta Website
A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.
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A year into its development, the effort to create an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform is beginning to bear fruit.
The Mono Project has delivered 520,000 lines of code, including a fast x86 run-time engine, a self-hosting C# compiler that can compile its class libraries and better development tools for the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) open-source desktop environment, according to the initiative's technical leader, Miguel de Icaza.
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A year into its development, the effort to create an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform is beginning to bear fruit.
The Mono Project has delivered 520,000 lines of code, including a fast x86 run-time engine, a self-hosting C# compiler that can compile its class libraries and better development tools for the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) open-source desktop environment, according to the initiative's technical leader, Miguel de Icaza.
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Both Apple and Microsoft are expected to release tweaks to their operating systems next month, in the form of Mac OS X 10.2 and Windows XP Service Pack 1.
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SAN FRANCISCO - In a San Francisco hotel conference room buzzing with lingo-slinging technology executives and public relations representatives, Bruce Perens is an unassuming standout.
The advocate and developer of free software isn't wearing a gray suit like the rest of them, and he's not overly optimistic about the announcement being made here -- that media software maker RealNetworks is making some of its vital source code freely available to developers.
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The advocate and developer of free software isn't wearing a gray suit like the rest of them, and he's not overly optimistic about the announcement being made here -- that media software maker RealNetworks is making some of its vital source code freely available to developers.
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The chipmaker aims to boost consumer interest in PCs and its processors by developing components for a portable personal video player.
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A consortium of hardware makers and software developers is looking to establish a standard for bringing the world's library of computerized 3D images to the Web.
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The chipmaker is advancing its release schedule of new 2.8GHz and 3GHz Pentium 4 chips in an effort to speed ahead of rival AMD.
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X-bit labs has posted an article called On the Way to Ideal Picture: Anti-Aliasing by Contemporary Graphics Cards.
Aiming to fend off the software powerhouse, RealNetworks plans to unveil "Helix," a new open source version of its streaming media software that supports multiple file formats.
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Big Blue is gunning after Oracle with new database management software that can anticipate problems and give database administrators advice on how to fix them.
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As ATI and Nvidia compete for the attention of PC hot-rodders, smaller chipmakers are finding opportunities in the middle of the market.
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Members of the open-source project unveil release 1.0 of their software, an audio encoding and streaming alternative to the MP3 format.
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AS THE DUST begins to settle on Symantec's eye-catching $350 million cash purchase of three vastly different security vendors, big-name security players suddenly lodged squarely in Symantec's sights have no intention of sitting idly by and already are planning their next move.
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FORGENT NETWORKS ANNOUNCED last week that it holds the patent to the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image compression technology, for both color and black and white images, and intends to license it to a variety of manufacturers.
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The PC maker, fresh from narrowing its second-quarter loss, is offering $100 mail-in rebates on a pair of desktops and the Solo 1450SE notebook.
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This whitepaper provides detailed instructions for deploying Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 in a secure configuration. These instructions assume you are performing a new deployment, and therefore instruct you to install and configure each server in this sample deployment. It is recommended that you use these instructions as a guideline for deploying your own secure site.
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Transmetazone has posted a Transmeta coverage from the PCExpo 2002
TRANSMETA THURSDAY POSTED a slightly smaller-than-expected loss for its second fiscal quarter, but at the same time announced plans to lay off 200 workers, or about 40 percent of its workforce.
The company also said that it no longer planned to offer a version of its Crusoe processor called the TM6000. Transmeta will continue to improve its current model, the TM5800, and work with customers to develop "future system-on-a-chip" products, it said in a statement.
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The company also said that it no longer planned to offer a version of its Crusoe processor called the TM6000. Transmeta will continue to improve its current model, the TM5800, and work with customers to develop "future system-on-a-chip" products, it said in a statement.
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Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and other Microsoft executives will pen a newsletter on the company's views about the role of technology and public policy.
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OC Workbench has posted some news about the ECS K7S5A+ motherboard
AnandTech has posted their ATI Radeon 9700 review
William Neukom, the lawyer who led the software giant's defense against federal antitrust charges, says he will rejoin his former law firm as a partner.
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Enthusiasts of free software disrupt a Commerce Department meeting, insisting on their right to debate the entertainment industry over anti-copying technologies.
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SECURITY VENDOR SYMANTEC announced three high-profile acquisitions late Wednesday at the same time it reported its financial results for the second quarter 2002. Symantec will acquire SecurityFocus, Riptech, and Recourse Technologies for a total of about $355 million in cash, the company said.
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The company on Thursday will unveil the details of the Radeon 9700, a desktop graphics chip based on a new architecture that will provide greater realism when it comes to 3D images.
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Tweakers Australia has posted some news on the EPoX nForce2 8RGA+ Motherboard
INTEL'S recent warning of lower second-quarter revenue proved true Tuesday, as the Santa Clara, California, chip maker announced revenue of US$6.32 billion and net income of $446 million.
The company also announced that it will lay off 4,000 employees in the second half of 2002. The company has about 83,000 employees.
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The company also announced that it will lay off 4,000 employees in the second half of 2002. The company has about 83,000 employees.
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UNISYS ADDED TWO new lines to its ES7000 server series Tuesday, the Orion and the Aries, which run Intel's new 64-bit Itanium 2 processor. The company will try to dent the Unix-controlled high-end server market and convince companies to consolidate their server rooms with the new machines.
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OCWorkbench has posted a picture of the ASUS A7n8x nForce 2 mainboard
VIA Hardware has posted a nForce2 coverage
Hardcoreware has posted their PCXPO TECHXNY 2002 report
Owain D. Lloyd of The University of Cambridge has demonstrated a new RAID 0 technology christened Logical Zone Variable Striping or LZVS and has called on hard drive manufacturers to develop a capability to read backwards from the middle of the drive in order to further exploit this technology. A 14% performance improvement over traditional RAID 0 was demonstrated and the author is considering whether or not to make his Linux kernel extensions available to the public.
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The group of patent holders governing MPEG-4 finalizes licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates.
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The lost-cost retailer expands its experiment in selling inexpensive PCs with the introduction of computers with the Mandrake version of Linux pre-installed.
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Hackers are increasingly targeting Web servers based on the open-source operating system, while the number of successful attacks on Windows systems decreases, a new report finds.
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CEOs from Microsoft, Intel and others say they’re ready to discuss anti-piracy issues with Hollywood--but only if the studios agree that technology can't solve all their problems.
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Advanced Micro Devices turns out a new mobile chip and new flash memory, but its most anticipated release this week will be its second-quarter results.
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Microsoft has released a new build of Windows .NET Server to the beta testers. This is another interim build between Beta 3 and Release Candidate 1. Thanks NaTaN.
The follow versions are available: Standard Server, Web Server, Enterprise Server, Enterprise Server Checked (debug), Enterprise Server 64 bit Edition, and Enterprise Server 64 bit Edition Checked (debug).
Registered beta testers can download this build from the Windows Beta Website
The follow versions are available: Standard Server, Web Server, Enterprise Server, Enterprise Server Checked (debug), Enterprise Server 64 bit Edition, and Enterprise Server 64 bit Edition Checked (debug).
Registered beta testers can download this build from the Windows Beta Website
DETERMINED TO revive interest in its high-end server ambitions, Intel's Itanium 2 launch has reopened the door for enterprises to migrate away from expensive RISC-based servers.
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