Adobe says its right to use certain fonts in Acrobat is still valid, though Agfa purchased the foundries. Agfa claims a violation of the DMCA.
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The chip behemoth will uncork the company's nanotechnology plans at its developer conference next week in San Jose, Calif., shedding some light on the future of its chips.
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Intel is reducing the price of its Pentium 4 desktop processors, its mobile Pentium 4-M processors, its desktop and mobile Celeron processors, and its Xeon processors for workstations and low-end servers. At the same time, financial analyst firms warned of slower-than-expected sales, and revised their guidance downward for Intel's third quarter numbers.
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IT managers could be breaking the law by installing Microsoft's volume licensing software on PCs bought without a Windows operating system pre-installed.
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China appears to have blocked the leading search engine, sparking speculation of a crackdown on Net content viewed as subversive ahead of a Communist Party congress in November.
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Accelenation has posted their ECTS (Electronic Computer Trade Show) coverage
Now that AOL has abandoned a protocol body's effort to standardize IM technology, the group may be on the verge of adopting an open-source alternative as a standards candidate.
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The company alleges that the new version of a popular benchmarking tool downplays the strengths of AMD's Athlon XP chips while emphasizing tests that favor Intel's Pentium 4.
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Once a mild annoyance, unsolicited bulk e-mail--also known as spam--could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service providers.
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Icrontic has posted a comparison between the new Detonator 40 drivers to the 28.32 drivers
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Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.
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VR-Zone has put up a quick comparison of the newly released Detonator 40.41 against the last Detonator 30.82.
NEW DATA ON worldwide usage of Web browser software shows Netscape is once again being clobbered by rival browser Internet Explorer and now has an estimated market share of 3.4 percent, according to Internet researcher WebSideStory.
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America Online says it plans to launch its new Netscape Web browser on Thursday, marking its latest effort to challenge the dominance of Microsoft Explorer.
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Despite new technology from Netscape, Internet Explorer now commands well over 90 percent of the market, according to a new study.
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Dell Computer Corp. on Monday introduced two new low-cost servers, the single-processor PowerEdge 600SC designed to handle simple tasks such as file-and-print sharing tasks, and a more robust two-way PowerEdge 2600, powered by dual Intel Xeon chips, that's capable of running small-scale database applications.
Prices for the PowerEdge 600SC start at $599 for a system equipped with a single 1.7GHz Intel Celeron chip, and $799 for configurations featuring 1.8GHz processors. The entry-level server can be configured with up to 4GB of double-date-rate (DDR) SDRAM, integrated Gigabit Ethernet, a RAID controller, and as many as four 120GB hard drives.
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Prices for the PowerEdge 600SC start at $599 for a system equipped with a single 1.7GHz Intel Celeron chip, and $799 for configurations featuring 1.8GHz processors. The entry-level server can be configured with up to 4GB of double-date-rate (DDR) SDRAM, integrated Gigabit Ethernet, a RAID controller, and as many as four 120GB hard drives.
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Viper's Lair has posted a new article: CPU Upgrade - Do you really need it?
Thanks Bob for this one:
"Upon installing SP3 for Win2k, some have reported errors using the Windows Installer service. I have encountered this issue when trying to install vdmsound. Here is one possible fix to use with caution:
1. Run msiexec.exe from the command prompt to verify the version, if there is no dialog box but instead an error in the NTVDM, then continue with these instructions.
2. Download InstMsiW.exe from this web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=32832
3. Extract InstMsiW.exe using WinZip or a similar tool.
4. Check and write down the versions (via the properties of file) of the following files in the ?WINNTSYSTEM32 directory:
msi.dll
msiexec.exe
msihnd.dll
5. For step 4, msiexec.exe should not have reported a version but instead appeared as a 16-bit program (dos).
6. From the extracted contents of InstMsiW.exe copy msiexec.exe over the old copy (backup the original msiexec.exe first).
7. Run the following command:
msiexec /unregister
8. Run the following command:
msiexec /regserver
Hopefully this helps, Bob"
"Upon installing SP3 for Win2k, some have reported errors using the Windows Installer service. I have encountered this issue when trying to install vdmsound. Here is one possible fix to use with caution:
1. Run msiexec.exe from the command prompt to verify the version, if there is no dialog box but instead an error in the NTVDM, then continue with these instructions.
2. Download InstMsiW.exe from this web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=32832
3. Extract InstMsiW.exe using WinZip or a similar tool.
4. Check and write down the versions (via the properties of file) of the following files in the ?WINNTSYSTEM32 directory:
msi.dll
msiexec.exe
msihnd.dll
5. For step 4, msiexec.exe should not have reported a version but instead appeared as a 16-bit program (dos).
6. From the extracted contents of InstMsiW.exe copy msiexec.exe over the old copy (backup the original msiexec.exe first).
7. Run the following command:
msiexec /unregister
8. Run the following command:
msiexec /regserver
Hopefully this helps, Bob"
INTEL WILL DISCUSS further details of its forthcoming mobile Banias and 3.0GHz Pentium 4 processors, and reveal its plans for dealing with demand for sophisticated communications devices at its semiannual Developer Forum conference, it said Tuesday.
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The new browser is faster and easier to use, according to its developers. But some users are saying the software still has a ways to go.
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The latest beta version of the software maker's Windows Media Player 9 Series isn't shy about letting consumers control the amount of information they choose to share.
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The Web Services Development Kit (WSDK) Technology Preview provides features to secure XML Web services, route them through more than one destination, and to add attachments to the SOAP messages. Security features include digital signing and encryption of SOAP messages that are compliant with the WS-Security specification. The SOAP router implemented by the WSDK follows the WS-Routing specification. Likewise, the ability to add attachments to SOAP messages follows the WS-Attachments specification.
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NeoSeeker has posted a Fragmart Day Highlights Report
Advanced Micro Devices unveils a pair of new server chips, continuing its fledgling effort to become a fixture in the lucrative market.
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OC Workbench send words that SIS and VIA turns to limited support of DDR400:
The Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), to be available in a beta version Monday, will function with the company's Visual Studio .Net development platform. The free download will provide support for three Microsoft-driven specifications that the company wants adopted as industry standards: WS-Security, WS-Attachments, and WS-Routing.
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Sony will introduce a DVD drive for personal computers that supports both competing formats, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW. The move represents a marked departure for the electronics company, which, one year ago, announced that it had no plans to support the DVD-R/RW format for computer products.
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A coalition of California activists filed a jaw-dropping $2.2 trillion set of lawsuits against facsimile marketer Fax.com Thursday, saying millions of "junk faxes" are clogging the nation's fax machines, jamming communications and possibly endangering lives.
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Overclockers New Zealand has posted a review on Aopen AX4BPro-533 I845E Motherboard.
A spate of publicity over misplaced government laptops has people hopping mad. A solution? PC makers are offering tracking software with new computers.
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The chipmaker expands its fight against the "fastest chip equals best PC" approach, moving from a consumer-education effort to developing a new way of judging performance.
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Warp2Search send words that PC POP has posted nVdia NV30 benchmarks
eliteHW has posted an article on wireless security.
Intel plans to cut prices on its Pentium 4 chips soon, but many dealers are already lowering prices as a way to clear out inventory.
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Advanced Micro Devices announces two new desktop microprocessors, but consumers won't be able to get them until next month.
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STREAMCAST NETWORKS ROLLED out the long-awaited 2.0 version of its Morpheus peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software Tuesday, offering not only a new engine but a new interface that integrates the file-sharing capabilities with the Web and an e-commerce platform.
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Accelenation has posted Radeon 8500 & GeForce4 Ti benchmarks
Published this month by Meta Group, the report examines the four top database vendors against a dozen criteria. Oracle9i came out on top in most areas including technology, services and execution, putting it in Meta Group's "leader" category. IBM's UDB 7.2 and Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 were ranked "challengers", while Sybase's ASE 12.5 was deemed a "follower."
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The Norwegian browser maker, on the verge of releasing a beta version of Opera 7, borrows a page from Netscape's history to rewrite its software from the ground up.
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VisionTek, one of the leading manufacturers of PC graphics cards based on Nvidia chips, says reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Dan's Data has posted a new column "The Price of Power"
VR-Zone has posted some information on the two upcoming KT400 models from EPoX, the 8K9A3+ and 8K9A2+ to be released in September.
Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon XP finally breaks through into the corporate market with a Hewlett-Packard deal to put the chip in Compaq Evo desktop PCs.
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Major Web portals are working to separate paid listings from nonpaid ones after a recent warning shot from federal regulators.
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DELL COMPUTER'S EVENTUAL entry into the printer and PDA (personal digital assistant) markets will cause headaches for some vendors and delight users as the company drives down prices, analysts said Friday.
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The chipmaker is expected to introduce two new models for desktop PCs, and is evaluating whether to increase the speed of the chip's front side bus.
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MORE DETAILS OF Samsung Electronics' planned mobile telephone based on Microsoft's Windows-Powered Smartphone 2002 platform are out after the telephone received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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IT'S HARD TO find a bright spot in the hardware market this year, as economic pressures have made both consumers and businesses think twice about purchasing a new PC, MP3 player, or personal digital assistant. But recordable DVD technology has been one of the lone areas predicted to grow substantially over the coming months and years, if vendors don't shoot themselves in the foot along the way while fighting over standards.
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