Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say a new method for cramming data onto magnetic tape will increase storage capacity at least 15 times, enough to squeeze the text from 8 million books onto a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2006
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in personal computer microprocessors, plans to unveil chips Tuesday it says will lead to more power-efficient PCs that are smaller and more stylish.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2006
EMC Corp. acquires IT professional services firm Interlink.
Margo Day, the leader of the U.S. Partner Group since September 2001, is moving into an alternate role in the Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners organization.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/15/2006
Citing Microsoft Corp.'s lapses under part of a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company's business practices until at least November 2009.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/12/2006
In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard meant to enable documents from various desktop applications to be interchangeable.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/11/2006
The company behind the BlackBerry on Thursday said it will launch its mobile e-mail service in China, where it already has homegrown competition: the Redberry.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/11/2006
DataCore says it is shipping an entry-level version of its enterprise resource analysis, monitoring and reporting tool for Windows and storage area networks (SAN).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/11/2006
Following in the footsteps of rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
Cisco Systems Inc., a leading maker of networking gear, is working to temper Wall Street's expectations for its current quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United
States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2006
Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/10/2006
Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/09/2006
While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will introduce later this month a production-ready hybrid hard drive (HHD) that combines flash NAND memory with a large disk drive to dramatically speed system bootups, a Korean paper reports.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/09/2006
Gaming goes cross-platform, as Microsoft extends offerings to cell phones and upcoming Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
As expected, Microsoft Corp. today released three new security bulletins today as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday announcement, with two of the patches being rated as "critical."
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2006
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