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Dell Warns Intel with Talk of AMD Inside

Dell CEO Kevin Rollins sent a clear signal to Intel, saying in an interview that the company is likely to begin using Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors in some of its products. Dell is the last holdout among PC and server makers not to use the Intel competitor's chips ...

PeopleSoft Board Rebuffs Oracle Yet Again

Don't breath a sigh of relief yet. Although PeopleSoft's board announced today it unanimously rejected Oracle's "best and final" offer of $24 a share, it ain't over till it's over, and it ain't over ...

New Intel Itanium Inside Unisys, HP Servers

Intel announced the latest versions of its Itanium 2 processors, six chips designed to add heft to the product line ...

Microsoft Program Exploits Infringement Fears

Microsoft announced today that it would extend its indemnification program to all end-users of its software products. According to analysts, however, the move is more a way to ease customers' fears than a real value-add ...

Firefox Officially Reignites Browser Wars

The Mozilla Foundation today officially released its open-source browser, Firefox 1.0, but the news won't come as a surprise to a great many computer users. Since it released its preview version in September, 8 million people have downloaded the super-fast browser, a direct descendant of Netscape ...

IBM Puts Blue Genes on the Shelf

IBM has taken an experiment -- Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer -- and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product ...

Tesco Squeezes into Crowded Online Music Market

Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market ...

MPAA Hatches Plan To Sue Movie File-Sharers

Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate ...

Amazon Embroiled in Another Patent Suit

Amazon.com, the owner of the "1-Click Shopping" patent, is no stranger to either side of patent infringement battles. Now it finds itself in yet another dispute, this one against Cendant Publishing ...

Intermec Suspends Royalties To Fuel RFID

Intermec Technologies has cleared the path for retail companies to test second-generation radio-frequency identification (RFID) products and move toward wide-scale adoption, analysts said ...

Nokia Dials Up New Smartphones

Nokia is betting on device convergence with three new gadgets with multiple functions. The announcements were tied to the annual Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco and Destination Nokia in Bangkok ...

PalmOne’s New Treo Tweaks Winning Formula

Gadget geeks got a rush today when PalmOne officially announced its latest smartphone, the Treo 650, a year after its Treo 600 debuted and a week after it accidentally leaked its own press release on the product ...

Oracle Hikes PeopleSoft Offer, Sets Deadline

Finally, there's an end in sight ...

Bagle Gets Stale But Remains a Threat

A new flavor of the Bagle worm that reared its head Thursday is spreadingrapidly around the Internet through e-mail and file-sharing programs ...

Linux Making Headway in Primary Education

Computers are becoming pervasive learning tools in K-12 education, whether in individual classrooms or in a shared media center ...

Cybercrime Marketplace Shut Down, 28 Arrested

An investigation coordinated by the U.S. Secret Service netted 28 people suspected of operating an international cybercrime clearinghouse. Authorities made 21 arrests in the United States; seven others were arrested in six different countries ...

AMD Hopes PIC Unlocks High-Growth Markets

Chipmaker AMD is taking its "50x15" plan to India in a partnership with telecommunications company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) in a move analysts said blurred the lines between consumer and computing devices. VSNL will market AMD's Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) to Tata Indicom Broadband customers as part of a bundled Internet service, beginning in five Indian cities...

‘San Andreas’ Will Steer Holiday Game Sales

The holiday gaming season officially opened yesterday with the release of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." ...

Nokia Rings In with New Mobile Platform

Nokia announced a platform Monday at the CTIA Wireless Show in San Franciscothat some say will help bring the United States in line with Europe and Asiain the use of mobile content such as games and ring tones. U.S. consumershave lagged in their adoption of mobile content ...

HP, SAP Bring Enterprise Management Tool to SMBs

SAP and Hewlett-Packard announced today they will jointly offer a business management tool that they say brings enterprise-level best practices to small and medium-size businesses ...

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