Gateway is shipping three new lines of 64-bit business desktops built around Intel’s BTX cooling technology, two of which can be ordered with Pentium D dual-core CPUs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 05, 2005
- By Becky Nagel
- July 05, 2005
Microsoft has agreed to pay IBM $775 million and to extend $75 million in software deployment credits in order to settle outstanding antitrust claims regarding the Redmond software giant’s competitive practices in desktop software markets during the 1990s.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 05, 2005
- By Paul Desmond
- July 01, 2005
From the business wires this week: an authentication software that restricts access to a computer's apps, a logon script processor, and a developer's ActiveX component for .PDF files.
Microsoft to announce pricing, availability for Systems Center Data Protection Manager at Partner confab in early July.
- By Paul Desmond
- July 01, 2005
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 01, 2005
- By Paul Desmond
- July 01, 2005
Free assessments, e-learning packages for developers to understand their abilities with new Microsoft software to be released in November.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 30, 2005
Microsoft posted Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, a group of more than 50 security fixes for the five-year-old operating system that enters the extended support phase next week. Microsoft reiterated that there will be no Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 29, 2005
Microsoft this week launched the seventh localized version of its low-cost, reduced-feature Windows XP Starter Edition designed for first-time PC buyers -- this one for Mexico.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 29, 2005
Intel announced this week that, with the latest Celeron D processors, its entire CPU line from servers to desktops now support its 64-bit addressing technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 28, 2005
Tenrox says it will add next month document management capabilities to its modular project and workforce management software for mid-sized to large organizations.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 28, 2005
Advanced Micro Devices sued Intel Corp. over antitrust issues on Monday, bringing the companies’ often contentious competition to a boil in federal district court in Delaware.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 28, 2005
In overwhelmingly positive votes, the shareholders of both Symantec and Veritas have confirmed the merger of the anti-virus giant with the utility computing dynamo. The deal is expected to close by the end of the week, according to a statement by the two firms.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 28, 2005
HP unveiled an 64-bit laptop based on a new mobile CPU from AMD that it hopes will strike a chord with small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) due to the system's price and performance.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 24, 2005
OEMs and retailers are citing a lack of customer interest for their decisions not to load onto new computers or stock the version of Windows XP without the Windows Media Player that the European Commission ordered Microsoft to offer, according to a media report.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 23, 2005
An analyst with Gartner warned customers that a recent spike in scanning activity on TCP Port 445 may mean attackers are gearing up to exploit a flaw patched last week by Microsoft in the widely used SMB protocol.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 23, 2005
Cisco announced the first products to support its Application Oriented Networking or AON initiative this week at the company’s Networkers 2005 conference in Las Vegas. Due out the chute later this year are AON modules – blades – to fit into data center switches and branch office routers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 23, 2005