Intel, in its newfound mission to bring low-cost computing to the third world - and compete with One Laptop Per Child - is going to develop an electronic version of the Quran in partnership with two Saudi Arabian ISVs and a training computer for teachers outfitted ...

Remember back in, oh, 2001, when a couple of engineers were nabbed at San Francisco Airport just before boarding a plane to China and had their grips searched and out poured all these confidential trade secrets from Sun Microsystems, Transmeta, NEC and Trident Microsystems?

Dell is doing one of those two-in-a-box management things and putting server chief Brad Anderson and desktop chief Jeff Clarke over the new Business Products Group. Notebook boss Alex Gruzen will run the Consumer Products Group on his own. Both Anderson and Gruzen are HP graduates.

Lehman Brothers, which thinks that AMD is capacity-constrained, also thinks that Intel may be aggressively pricing products and quotes China-based Commercial Times, which cites PC OEMs as its sources, as saying that Intel may again cut prices on its P4s by bette...

HP is going to be the first Silicon Valley to bust through the $100 billion barrier, according to what HP told its analyst meeting Tuesday morning, which is not to say that it doesn't need to find the next laser printer to boost revenues - it does. HP CFO Bob Waym...

HP has apparently dropped an expected shoe. In a widely picked-up story the New York Times said Thursday that HP has sent the highest of high-powered Silicon Valley lawyers, Larry Sonsini, packing, severing his long-standing advisory ties with its board. He was ...

HP has managed to wriggle off the hook with the California Attorney General's office as far as its silly headline-rich boardroom-directed spying adventure goes. It's cut a deal to avoid prosecution on the civil charges that the AG has been contemplating. The com...

'Managing a series of applications from multiple vendors is like driving a car with multiple dashboards,' said Chris Kenworthy, senior vice president, McAfee, Inc., as McAfee today announced the latest release of Total Protection for Enterprise 2.0.

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker shows IBM's external disk storage revenue growing significantly faster than the overall storage marketplace for third quarter 2006, growing revenue 14.3 percent year-to-year, compared to the overall external d...

HP has introduced the industry's first blade workstation solution which combines the benefits and security of a centralized data center with workstation-class performance. Based on HP BladeSystem infrastructure, the HP ProLiant Blade Workstation Solution gives u...

Sun Microsystems has announced that Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has deployed a Sun technology infrastructure to run a critical new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. The Sun system, comprised of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), UltraSPARC I...

Sun Microsystems saw its year-to-year total server market share grow 1.1 points, the most of any top six server vendor, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. It was the third consecutive quarter that Sun?s market share grew. Sun's saw its year-t...

HP has announced that AMD has purchased several hundred HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades powered by AMD Opteron processors to support the development of its chip designs. AMD chose the new HP ProLiant BL465c servers over competitive offerings for their industr...

Sun Microsystems has announced that Kodak will offer the Sun StorageTek 5800 storage system as an integrated storage option for its CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions. By making its Versatile Intelligent Patient Archive (VIParchive) software available wit...

HP outshipped all other major vendors in the worldwide server market for the 18th consecutive quarter, according to third quarter 2006 figures released today by IDC. HP surpassed market growth in the worldwide blade server market, with 43.8 percent year-over-year ...

IDC has announced that IBM continues to hold the number one position in worldwide server revenue share, growing revenue by 6.6 percent, year over year, and increasing its revenue share to 33.1 percent. The growth was driven by IBM's continued leadership in the highl...

IBM has announced that the AIX 5L V5.3 operating system has been awarded a certificate of conformance by the Open Group's Platform Forum for the UNIX 03 standard, which offers clients with greater flexibility. UNIX 03 is the latest UNIX Product Standard developed ...

Adobe Systems has introduced Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2, an enterprise rights management (ERM) solution for protecting and controlling documents throughout their entire lifecycle, from creation, through distribution and collaboration, to archiving and des...

The former head of CA's worldwide sales, Stephen Richards, was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for his role in the company's $2.2 billion stock fraud scheme. Earlier this month his former boss, ex-CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, drew 12 years. Both men are current...

AMD Sued for Patent Infringement Semiconductor design house Opti Inc has sued AMD in the famed Eastern District of Texas for infringing three Opti patents all entitled 'Predictive Snooping Technology of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses. The patents ...

One of the reasons that AMD bought ATI just surfaced. At Supercomputing on Tuesday AMD started pushing what it called the world's first dedicated stream processor aimed at juicing up HPC with massive doses of floating point performance. And, no, it's not a new Opteron.

Intel is out with its first two quad-core processors, the Xeon 5300, a k a Clovertown, for servers and the Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core, a k a Kentfield, for desktops. Intel, which preens that it's ignited the quad core era, puts two dual-core Core 2 processors in a ...

Dell's fortunes just soured again - just when Wall Street was starting to think of it as a turnaround story even if it hasn't really done much to deserve that assessment. Anyway, first off, that 16-month-old SEC investigation that Dell tried to keep quite and didn...

HP's alleged spy mistress, ex-chairman Patricia Dunn, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges stemming from the company's pretexting misadventure that was touched off by press leaks from the HP boardroom. It was the day before HP disclosed the SEC had launc...

At Supercomputing 2006, Sun Microsystems has announced that Sun technology is powering ten of the world's highest-performing supercomputers, as determined by the TOP500 Organization. Sun doubled its presence on the prestigious ranking, as compared to the TOP500 ...

IBM has announced that its BladeCenter system uses up to 30 percent less energy than HP BladeSystem. As energy prices rise to nearly 15 cents per kilowatt hour in New York City, 21 cents per kilowatt hour in Tokyo and up to 23 cents per kilowatt hour in London, bu...

IBM has announced that InteleNet Communications, dealing in on-demand managed hosting and Internet services, has improved the reliability, accessibility and reduced energy costs in its sprawling 55,000-square-foot data center by using the IBM BladeCenter platform.

Microsoft has announced upcoming product milestones designed to help information workers, IT professionals and developers manage data complexity. In his keynote speech at the 2006 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit, Paul Flessner, se...

IBM has announced its Internet Security Systems division will offer customers a new hardware solution for centralized security management. Based on the existing IBM Proventia Management SiteProtector software, the new appliance is designed to make it easier for co...

IBM has announced that it is enhancing its line of x86 servers with the introduction of four, quad-core IBM systems and a new blade utilizing the quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 processor. System x servers provide a whole new level of value for clients, delivering three ...

IBM has announced the introduction of two new midrange storage servers designed for companies that require 'hardened' infrastructures because of the industries they address or the data center environments where the equipment is located.

Aladdin Knowledge Systems, dealing in Software DRM, strong authentication and content security solutions, has announced that Transbeam, one of New York City's leading ISPs for hotels and schools, has selected Aladdin's eSafe SecureSurfing solution to offer its I...

IBM has announced new migration programs to further accelerate the momentum of clients switching from HP's Mercury software and OpenView systems management software to IBM with a 25 percent discount on select Rational and Tivoli software.

At Microsoft Tech-Ed: Developers, Microsoft has announced that an enhanced version of Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) will be included in the next major release of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named 'Orcas.'

At the opening of Storage Networking World, IBM has announced an expansion of its enterprise line of disk arrays, including the introduction of a new flexible choice warranty option, while also adding new models to its enterprise tape portfolio that include the worl...

Cenzic, a provider of automated application security assessment and compliance solutions, has unveiled Hailstorm Enterprise ARC (Application Risk Controller), the first product to address application security assessment across the enterprise. With its intelligen...

Dell wheeled out its Intel heartbreakers at Oracle OpenWorld, touting the price/performance, performance per watt and simplicity of its first two Opteron servers. The one-time Intel loyalist started selling AMD PCs in September.

With ATI Technologies in its pocket and only the $5.4 billion acquisition bill left to pay off, AMD is now supposed to deliver on a broad design initiative code named Fusion that creates a new class of x86 processor that integrates the CPU and the GPU at the silic...

SGI, fresh out of Chapter 11 and just back trading on the Nasdaq, filed a patent infringement suit against ATI Technologies Inc in district court in Wisconsin, where SGI's research and manufacturing facilities are located. The suit was filed Monday, two days befor...

IBM has announced a new dynamic data warehousing platform, built upon the industry-leading DB2 9 'Viper' data server, that is designed to help customers quickly and easily gain greater insight into their business information.