Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched the world's first "quad-core" processors, a new line of chips that feature four computing brains and improved performance over previous models with just one or two processing cores.
- By The Associated Press
- November 14, 2006
Launch might exceed Windows XP expectations, says Redmond chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- November 14, 2006
Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has quietly discontinued a money-losing line of low-cost PCs aimed at helping customers in developing countries get access to the Internet, according to a regulatory filing.
- By The Associated Press
- November 14, 2006
Singapore teen faces 3 years' jail for tapping into another's wireless Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
If Cisco Systems Inc. has its way, the Oakland Athletics' new ballpark in Fremont, California, will be the stadium of the future.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Hundreds of potential jurors report for duty in Microsoft lawsuit.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Sun Microsystems releases its Java technology as open-source project.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Zune music player is Microsoft's latest entertainment foray
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Small business customers will have access to OS early, much like enterprise businesses. Consumers still have to wait for January 30th.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
No matter whether Nintendo Co., Microsoft Corp. or Sony Corp. wins the video game console war, there already is one huge victor: IBM Corp., which designed and makes the microprocessors for all three units.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.
- By The Associated Press
- November 13, 2006
Microsoft turns to musician Robert Fripp to create many of Vista's sounds, including signature start-up sound.
- By The Associated Press
- November 10, 2006
Think of it as Wikipedia for the workplace. Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, now wants to provide businesses with software to create blogging, wiki and news feed services to connect employees on collaborative projects.
- By The Associated Press
- November 09, 2006
Chip-maker Nvidia Corp. unveiled two graphics microprocessors that offer twice the horsepower of previous models and what the company touts as a design milestone: a multitasking brain capable of efficiently handling a variety non-graphics calculations.
- By The Associated Press
- November 09, 2006
Advanced security bulletin refers to an XML flaw and five other Windows flaws deemed "critical"; unknown whether security rollup addresses recent Visual Studio flaw.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 09, 2006
Who says Microsoft can't laugh at itself? The company just released BlueScreen version 3.2 -- the latest version of a screen saver that mimics Windows' dreaded "Blue Screen of Death."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2006
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday the company's upcoming Windows Vista operating system has survived antitrust complaints by rivals who aimed to "castrate" it.
- By The Associated Press
- November 09, 2006
Windows Vista that will be delivered won't be a version "castrated" by EU or software rivals, says Microsoft chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- November 09, 2006
Microsoft announced this week it is adding an enhanced version of Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) to the next major release of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2006