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NEWS, ETC.
May 2001
5/31 Office
XP- Open for Business. Software finally hits shelves, but will
businesses buy? Office
XP web site.
5/31 Gates
Launches Office XP To Upbeat, But Wary, Channel
5/31 Microsoft
Supporters Fire Salvo as Office XP Launches
5/31 Gateway
Gets Cocky, Promises To Beat Any Competitor Price
5/31 PC
Makers Filling 'Selected' Jobs
5/31 What's
Next: For Efficiency, Light-Emitting Diodes May Turn to Carbon. Displays
that use LED's made from plastics and other organic molecules rather
than silicon... You may have
to log into the NY Times, but it is free and is well worth the little
effort that it takes.
5/31 Toshiba
Dazzles with New Organic Display. Toshiba is applying its experience
with liquid-crystal displays to create the next generation of screen
technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays.
5/31 Broadband
Puts Down Rural Roots. Unlike the cumbersome process of laying
cable, wiring homes, and linking networks to the larger fiber optic grids,
fixed wireless systems can be set up easily with little capital cost
or impact on the environment.
5/31 Fast
Graphics at a Fair Price. Aimed squarely at the casual gamer,
the Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Kyro II chip competes directly with nVidia's
GeForce2 MX budget chip, trouncing it in every way.
5/31 VIA
Presents Four Chipsets Ready for Intel's Tualatin Processor
5/31 Hardware
Manufacturers Snub New Athlons. IBM and Compaq both have said
they have no plans to adopt the new 1.2GHz and 1.3GHz Athlon chips and
the accompanying 760MP chipset that allows the processors to be used
in dual-processor machines.
5/31 JEDEC
Adopts Standard for DDR333. New industry standard has been
adopted for DDR333, the highest yet approved for double data rate 167-MHz
clock rate memory.
5/31 Infineon,
Micron To Co-Develop RLDRAM Memory. Reduced
Latency DRAM (RLDRAM) will initially operate at data rates as high
as 600Mbit/sec/pin for “ultra-fast” random access, closing the gap
between DRAM and SRAM.
5/31 Analyst:
Intel's Itanium Chip Will Hurt Sun
5/30 Lighting
Industry Working on High-tech Slternatives to the Bulb.
5/30 Portsmouth
is in New Hampshire. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in Maine. Mainers
have known that for a long time, rub!
5/30 IBM,
NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu Team on Linux.
5/30 AMD
Hammer Processor to Hurt ALi, SiS, Via. Many of the functions
performed by the chipsets will be integrated onto the processor die itself.
5/30 Tessera
Folds Multiple Dice Into 1-mm Package. "We put multiple
chips on a flexible substrate side-by-side, [then fold the assembly]
with a mechanical tool to create a package the size of your thumb..."
5/30 RealNetworks
Snags Intel Deal. RealPlayer and RealJukebox software will
be distributed with two new Intel desktop PC motherboards.
5/29 Consumer
Confidence Jumps in May
5/29 Intel
Confirms Chip Price Changes
5/29 High-Temperature
Superconductors Find a Variety of Uses. You
may have to log into the NY Times, but it is free and is well worth the
little effort that it takes.
5/29 Taiwan's
PC Makers Shift Production to China. As Taiwan's subcontractors
migrate to China, the United States is likely to end up in an odd position:
its main supplier of PC's and other information-technology, or I.T.,
gear will be its main strategic adversary.
5/29 MSN
Casts Net for AOL Defectors. Advertising cheaper rates.
5/29 To
Improve high-speed 'Flip Chip,' Scientists Follow the Bouncing Droplets
5/29 Tech
Help Desks Wage Internal War
5/29 Windows
Raises Hacking Insurance Prices. Hack attacks prompt underwriter
to slap a five to 15 percent premium on insurance premiums for firms
using Windows - and IIS will be next.
5/29 Top
10 Ink Jet Printers
5/28 Intel
Itanium Processor Begins 64bit Move. Itanium is expected to radically
change the cost structure of enterprise computing.
5/28 Intel's
New Chip is a Labor of Love
5/28 OEMs
Waiting for McKinley? Next week, Intel will roll out the much-delayed
Itanium architecture, the first of the IA-64 family, code-named Merced;
however, many OEMs will wait for the superior McKinley chip, the next
Itanium generation.
5/28 They're
Talking About the Dick Tracy Watch Again. Following
the lead of Texas Instruments, Intel announces its new "wireless-Internet-on-a-chip" for
cell phones, hand-helds, and, possibly, Tracy-esque gadgets.
5/28 RDRAM,
DDR Memory Market Shares Increasing
5/28 128
MByte Memory Falls Below $20
5/28 Microsoft
Says Upgrade Now or Pay Big Later
5/28 HP
Exec: Linux will be Desktop Champ.
5/28 Hybrid
Electric Vehicle Seen As Clean But Slow
5/28 Living
Logic. Genetically engineered bugs that do the same job as the
components of a microchip...
5/28 Web
Site Lets Consumers Opt Out Of Online Tracking
5/27 Microsoft:
How It Became Stronger Than Ever
5/27 Semiconductor
Alert! (May 21-25). Commentary & analysis of week's chip
news.
5/27 PC
OEMs, Suppliers Look for Kick Start at Computex. Likely to get
the lion's share of attention is Nvidia's new Athlon 4 chipset. As previously
reported, Nvidia has developed a core-logic IC for the Athlon 4 that
is similar to the chipset it will supply for Microsoft Corp.'s X-Box
game console.
5/26 Vishay
to Close Plant in Sanford, Maine, Cut 463 Jobs. The
largest employer in my town...
5/25 Intel
Hints at 2 GHz Pentium 4 for Third Quarter
5/25 . After
10 years in the making and multiple delays, Intel is set to release
its state-of-the-art 64-bit Itanium microprocessor on May 29.
5/25 AMD
and Transmeta Announce Cooperation on Future Microprocessor Standards. Tansmeta
licenses 64-bit and HyperTransport technologies.
5/25 Dinosaur
Robots For Sale
5/25 Dean
Kent's May 2001 Industry Update
5/25 Samsung
to Ship 300-MHz, 64-Mbit DDR Memory Chip
5/25 Taiwanese
Manufacturers Suspend DDR Motherboard Development. Sales and
market acceptance of DDR SDRAM-based motherboards have not been rising
and Taiwanese first-tier motherboard makers like Asustek Computer, Gigabyte
Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) have recently suspended
their development of new DDR products.
5/25 VIA
Launches C3 E-Series Processor in EBGA (Enhanced Ball Grid Array)
Package. 733 MHz, small die, fanless, 192KB on die cache, Socket
370.
5/25 VIA
Hits 0.13 Micron Mark
5/25 Top
Ten 17-Inch Monitors
5/25 Electronic
Games on the Rise. Driven new gaming systems,
games sector is poised to jump 71% to nearly $86 billion over the next
five years.
5/25 Vishay
Bids For Siliconix
 5/24 Iomega
Unveils High-Capacity Portable Drive System. 10
and 20 GByte; roughly the size of handheld computer. Iomega.
5/24 Gates
Calls Broadband the Weakest Link.
5/24 New
FireWire to Blaze Faster Trail. The new 1394b standard is expected
to deliver data at up to 800 megabits per second, while USB 2.0 is designed
to exchange data at 480 mbps.
5/24 Sharp
Introduces LCD Monitor with Built-in Video Recorder. 15" LCD-monitor
with an integrated TV-tuner and MPEG-2 encoder.
5/24 Abit
Features a Little Dux Know-How. See second headline. "DUX
Computer Digest is considered one of the “leaders” in computer hardware
knowledge on the net. With a smart and newsy feel to the front page,
DUX offers useful advice and great how-to guides."
5/23 Microsoft
puts 64-bit Windows to the Test. Microsoft will announce
today that a long-awaited high-end version of its Windows XP operating
system, intended to compete with Unix, is entering customer testing.
5/23 Taiwan
DDR Chipsets Fall Below $20. Demand for DDR memory and
motherboards has so far failed to meet expectations.
5/23 Nowhere
to Hide, Video Eyes Are Watching
5/23 AMD
Gains Mobile Momentum: NEC, SONY, FUJITSU Choose AMD Processors for New
Notebooks
5/23 NEC
Picks AMD's Athlon 4 for Notebook Line
5/23 Tips
for Keeping Your IT Career on the Move
5/23 Computer
Manufacturers Positioned for Rebound?
5/23 Can
Television Survive the Internet? The coming battle to rebroadcast
TV on the Internet could make the Napster copyright frenzy look like
a schoolyard fight by comparison.
5/23 Biotech
Companies Modify Plants' Genes to Produce Human Proteins
5/23 AOL
Says Its Users Spent $6.7B Online In Q1. Seems
somewhat self-defeating to raise rates on such big spenders...
5/23 Apple
Starts to Ship Macs With OS X Installed
5/22 AOL Will Raise Rates to $23.90/month for
Unlimited-use Accounts in July.
5/22 First
Itanium to Have Short Shelf Life. Itanium will mainly be used
as a development platform for IA-64 while companies wait for Itanium's
successor McKinley next year.
5/22 Intel
Debuts Mobile MPUs. The processors with Pentium
3 cores are being introduced in 600MHz and 750MHz versions and will
carry the company’s Speed Step power and voltage scaling capability.
5/22 Test
of Revolutionary Jet Promises to Transform Flight. You
may have to log into the NY Times, but it is free and is well worth the
little effort that it takes.
5/21 IBM "Pixie
Dust" Breakthrough Quadruples Disk Drive Density. Hard-disk
drives with a three-atom-thick layer of the ruthenium, a precious metal
similar to platinum, sandwiched between two magnetic layers, known technically
as "antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media," are expected
to store 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch by 2003.
5/21 Intel
Introduces Xeon Workstation Processor.
5/21 Intel
to Unveil Tualatin to Compete with AMD. To
compete with the AMD Athlon 4 notebook processor, Intel will unveil the
new Pentium III, codenamed Tualatin, in July.
5/21 Windows
XP: The big squeeze? The long list of new features potentially
puts an even longer list of companies in Microsoft's crosshairs...
5/21 Is
AMD Shrinking Intel’s Margins?
5/21 New
Chips Power Graphics-rich Game Consoles. Electronic Entertainment
Expo (E3) featured unveiling of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox and Nintendo's
GameCube...
5/18 Forget
Electrons - Computing Goes Light-Speed. Scientists at the
University of Rochester say a "simple" computer they have built
combining quantum mechanics with laser technology may perform some calculations
a billion times quicker than anything currently in use, eventually making
today's fastest supercomputers seem like toys.
5/18 Optical
Networking
5/18 Itanium
Debut Imminent. Intel's 64-bit
Itanium processor could make its debut as early as the end of this
month.
5/18 New
Worm Tries to Fix Infected Linux Systems. The worm, called Cheese,
attempts to fix any damage created by the Lion worm which plagued Linux
servers in March.
5/18 Microsoft
Sites Face Fee Hike. Open and Select license customers who do
not follow Microsoft's recommended two-to three-year upgrade path may
pay up to twice as much as before.
5/18 Group
Says Microsoft's .NET is Next Monopoly Ploy
5/18 Windows
XP Release Schedule Updated. Shipment to retail channel still
set for October 25th.
5/18 EnvisioNet
Cuts Over 500 Jobs. Firm provides tech
support for Microsoft and Dell.
5/18 Dell's
Strategy Does the Trick. Price cuts help
the Texas computer maker meet 1st-quarter estimates and become No.
1 in the worldwide server market.
5/18 MP3
Players: Running Past Walkman?
5/18 Antenna
Breakthrough Hints of Software Radio
5/17 CPU
War Escalates: Athlon 4 Takes on Pentium 4. AMD has managed to
surprise everyone with the potency of its Palomino CPU design. Good
stuff for CPU fanatics.
5/17 Tom
Pabst has a Good, Initial Write-up on the AMD Mobile Athlon 4. Easy
read.
5/17 AMD
Athlon Processor Gaining Recognition for Use in Supercomputers
5/17 The
End of the Web as We Know It? The death of the World Wide Web
and the dawn of a new, application-based Internet... Sounds
like E-commerce a few months ago...
5/17 Building
a Learning and Support Strategy for Web-based Applications
5/17 Setting-up
Teleworkers. 10 computer-related issues for teleworkers.
5/17 Samsung
Slashes LCD Prices. Leading monitor manufacturers have
announced 15-inch displays that break the $500 mark. Still
another war...
5/17 Broadband's
Next Wave: Wireless?
5/17 Golf
Ball Evolution
5/17 AMD,
Dell Dealing On Mobile Chips
5/17 Micron
Cuts DDR Module Price to Match SDRAM. So
now, I suppose, we are going to have an all-out memory war on top of
the CPU and computer wars that are ongoing.
5/17 MS
Releases Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000. 500 bug fixes and 128
bit encryption.
5/17 Shotgun
Wedding. Celera the company which shared the glory for sequencing
the human genome faces claims that its data may be riddled with errors.
5/17 More
Than a Palmtop, Not Quite a PC. Loosely called Web pads or Web
tablets, these Internet-linked devices are designed to perform much the
same functions, though they vary in how they do it. You
may have to log into the NY Times, but it is free and is well worth the
little effort that it takes.
5/17 GameCube
Clears Path for Game Developers. Successor to the company's Nintendo
64 will go head to head with Sony's Playstation and Microsoft's X-box.
5/17 Sony
to Add Macromedia Technology to PlayStation2
5/17 Xbox
vs. GameCube vs. PS2. Product wars all
over the place..
5/17 Intel
to Unveil its "Internet on a Chip"
5/17 Dell
to Report 1Q Results Amid Price War. The PC vendor's future margins
are expected to slide due to price war initiatives.
5/17 HP
Profit Falls 66%
5/17 First
annual CeBIT Asia to open in Shanghai August 8. 500
exhibitors from 22 countries have signed up to display their products.
5/16 Microsoft
Opens Xbox Secrets. Microsoft's new game console will launch
on Nov. 8 at a price of $299.99.
5/16 Sony
Makes Real Deal for PlayStation. As Sony
prepares to fight Microsoft’s Xbox, it says RealNetworks will provide
streaming-media software for Sony’s videogame consoles.
5/16 Video
Games Shoot for Bigger Chunk of Entertainment Market
5/16 Competition
Between RDRAM and DDR Still Full of Uncertainties. After
Intel’s reduction of Pentium 4 prices by almost 50%, first-tier motherboard
makers report that RDRAM has exceeded DDR motherboard shipments by
40%.
5/16 2
Companies and F.T.C. Settle Internet-Cost Case. Gateway and Juno... "These
so-called `free' Internet access offers were anything but."
5/16 Little Jingle on Quantum's Web Site: Where
have all the hard drives gone? Gone to Maxtor, every one. Visit
Maxtor for information and support on Quantum hard drives. And
so goes a lot of history (no link)
5/16 Set-top-box
Chip Expands Linux Use in Consumer Applications. IBM is working
with MontaVista Software Inc. to make its Hard Hat Linux operating system
available for IBM's PowerPC based single-chip Set-Top Box (STB) Controller.
5/16 Acer
Hit Hard by Weekend Fire
5/15 New
Worm Spreads Disguised as Virus Warning. VBS.Hard.A@mm, shows
up in users' inboxes disguised as a virus alert from anti-virus firm
Symantec, with a subject line reading "FW: Symantec Anti-Virus
Warning"
5/15 Merrill
Cuts PC Growth Outlook. From 5% to 3% this year. Reasons
for strong growth next year.
5/15 AMD
Desktop CPU Plans
5/15 Intel's
P4: More Bang, Fewer Buyers
5/15 Analog
Devices Unveils Digital Camera Chip. Chip supports the new JPEG2000
image compression standard which lets users peel off levels of quality
from a photo much like peeling an onion...
5/15 Chip
War Goes Mobile With AMD's Athlon 4
5/15 Microsoft
Press Offers Books "Made to Order." Customers who visit
the Microsoft Press Web site
can browse and compile individual chapters from selected works, and have
them delivered as a single, custom book -- either in printed or electronic
form.
5/15 Microsoft
Launches Free Software Services for Office
5/15 An
Answer to the Napster Debate? Microprocessor,
dubbed the Zenon, will make the legal distribution of music as digital
files a secure...
5/14 AMD
Introduces Athlon 4 Mobile Processor
5/14 Monitors
May Soon Go 3D. Deep Video Imaging has developed a display that
gives the illusion of depth--without special glasses.
5/14 Intel
Hones Larger Wafer for a Cheaper Chip. You
may have to log into the NY Times, but it is free and is well worth the
little effort that it takes.
5/14 Pushing
for a One-Windows World. Microsoft's latest solution
is to move everyone to the Windows 2002 Server/XP unified Windows platform.
5/14 Antitrust
Storm Gathers Over Windows XP
5/14 Motherboards
for Dual-Athlon Systems Begin to Appear
5/14 Semiconductor
Alert! (May 7-11). Commentary & analysis of week's chip news. Good
read.
5/14 Microsoft
Posts Windows 2000 Update
5/14 Farming
That Is Out of This World. NASA teams up with John Deere to improve
agricultural precision.
5/11 SiS
735 Chipset Performance Preview. Umpteen benchmarks, page
after page of them... "if all indications hold up, SiS 735 will
be the price/performance leader among all [Athlon/Duron] DDR chipsets."
5/11 Pressure
Turns Nitrogen Gas into Solid Semiconductors. Researchers create
such solid nitrogen but also found that it becomes a semiconductor in
this state.
5/11 Microsoft:
Killing NT Softly? The company
whispered that it wouldn't be publishing the long-anticipated Service
Pack 7 for Windows NT 4.0.
5/11 Shift
in Technology Markets Is Helping I.B.M., Chief Says. You
may have to log into the NY Times, but it is free and is well worth the
little effort that it takes.
5/11 IBM
Revs PowerPC Chips up to 2GHz. The chips will be capable of hitting
1GHz late this year, with IBM eyeing the 2GHz mark for late 2002.
5/11 Microsoft
Licensing Shift Could Double Corporate Costs
5/11 Microsoft
License Plan May Boost Linux
5/11 The
Price PC2100 DDR Memory Now Equals the Price of PC133 Memory
5/11 5-GHz
Wireless LANs Hit the Ground Running.
5/11 Ready
to Manage Your Household Online? Connections 2001 conference
finds 'cheap' and 'easy' are key consumer requests for home networks.
5/11 Vendors
Take Ethernet to Next Level. Nortel, HP and Cisco among those
showing off 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
5/11 Taiwan
Electronics and Computer Leaders are Full Speed Ahead on IEEE 1394
Multimedia Standard. Manufacturers
are installing the IEEE 1394 Firewire into an rapidly-increasing number
of interface cards and motherboards.
5/10 Athlon
Dual Processor Motherboards
5/10 "Homepage" Worm
Crawling Across The Globe
5/10 IBM,
Dell to Launch Itanium Workstations
5/10 Samsung
Debuts Mini 32MB MP3-Player to Go. Samsung is introducing Mini-Yepp,
the "world’s smallest" USB-based 32MB digital audio player.
5/10 Rambus
Loses Two Fraud Claims, Plans Appeal. More here.
5/10 Pockey:
A Small But Mighty Portable Hard Drive. This pocket-sized
drive packs in 20GB of storage (10GB units are available as well) into
a case measuring just 5.0 by 3.0 by 0.5 inches (HWD). Its only real
limitation is its USB connection.
5/9 Memory
Market in Freefall, CPUs Following
5/9 ATI's
Chips are Down. Company losing market share to rival Nvidia.
5/9 National
Semiconductor to Cut 1,100 Jobs
5/9 A
New Spin for Future Electronic Devices. Apart from charge, electrons
possess another fundamental trait—namely, spin—that could give rise to
a whole new class of electronic devices.
5/9 Dell
CEO Sees PC Replacement Cycle Coming. "If
you fast forward three years from the second quarter of 1999, you get
to the second quarter of 2002, which is about the replacement cycle for
all those machines installed for the anticipation of the year 2000."
5/9 Homepage
Net Worm Spreading Like Wildfire
5/9 Technology
Exposes Cheating at U-Va. Physics Professor's Computer Search
Triggers Investigation of 122 Students
5/9 U.S.
Internet Population Declines for First Time in 20 Years. The
number of online household subscriptions dropped 0.29 percent during
the first quarter of 2001 to 68.5 million.
5/9 Napster
Looks at Digital Fingerprints
5/9 eMachines
May Put Itself up for Sale. Free to
buyer who agrees to a four-year Internet account?
5/9 Microsoft
May Upgrade License Policy. MS might start forcing companies
to pay up every three years if they want continued use of its software.
5/8 Dell
to Cut up to 4,000 More Workers. 10% of workforce.
5/7 Dual
Athlon to Arrive June 4th. "SOURCES CLOSE TO AMD's
plans say the firm will roll out its dual Athlon platform for the server
market, and using Palomino CPUs, on June the 4th." June
4th is also the start of COMPUTEX in Taipei, Taiwan, where I presume
the announcement will be made.
5/7 Broadband
Users Still Sing the Blues. High-speed access to the Internet
was supposed to be everywhere by now. But financial and technical problems
dog the industry.
5/7 Voice
Over IP Gets Wake-up Call. VOIP (voice over IP) technology in
particular is finally picking up steam after much experimentation, largely
because it enables companies to save money on telephone charges. "Imagine
an all-IP call center [in which] customers could call up information
on the Web, click on an icon, and connect to a live [representative]
on a Net phone..."
5/7 Low-price
Models from China Drag Down DVD Player Prices. Should drop to
around $140 this year.
5/7 The
Hidden Headaches of IP Version 6 Services. Transitioning from
IPv4 to IPv6 is like rebuilding a car engine while the car is going 100
mph.
5/7 3Com
to Cut 30 Percent of Workforce
5/7 Windows
XP Expected to Ship in October
5/7 Judge
Dismisses Suit Against Infineon, Rambus to Appeal. U.S.
District Judge Robert Payne announced on Friday that he was granting
a motion by Infineon to throw out all three remaining claims in the case. Earlier
in the week, he dismissed 54 other claims.
5/7 Semiconductor
Alert! (April 30-May 4). Commentary & analysis of week's
chip news
5/7 Encryption
Migrates to Silicon as Net traffic Swells
5/4 HP,
Compaq Follow Dell with Price Cuts. Dell has established itself
as the leader on price... Well, history
shows that PC price leaders (e.g., Packard-Bell) have had to cut things
somewhere and those things in the past have been quality and support. Low
prices led to a surge in sales followed by the demise of the price leader
as end users and potential buyers become disillusioned by poor quality
and support. Perhaps Dell et al have a new twist that will work.
I am skeptical. Larry
Believe it or not, I found
this right after writing the foregoing... Market
Share Gains at Any Cost: "An executive from one of Dell's
largest distribution customers, who requested anonymity, said this
news does not surprise him. Rumors were circulating that Dell
would begin reducing its workforce to keep expenses down as it prepares
for an aggressive pricing battle, he said."
5/4 AMD
Plots 15 May Server, Mobile Athlon Launch
5/4 Future
Computing: Faster Than Silicon. More
on carbon nanotubes. Well written.
5/4 NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Scientists Spin Microscopic Particles with Laser Beams
5/4 3
Accused of Stealing Lucent Secrets for China Venture
5/4 Services
Seen as Driving Growth in Broadband. DSL and cable access may
falter if not combined with services such as personalized content delivery,
video-on-demand, an extra phone line based on voice-over-IP technology,
music downloads and other yet-to-be developed offerings. They
got it wrong.
5/4 Iomega
QuikSync 3 Backup: Set It, Forget It. Unlike previous versions,
which worked only with Iomega's drives, QuikSync 3 works with all types
of drives.
5/4 More
Detailed Info On Dell Battery Recall
5/4 A
New Force Against Cancer. IBM
is working with an Atlanta-based biotechnology firm and Emory University
to develop technology that will enable doctors to diagnose and tailor
treatments for cancer patients based on the patients' genes.
5/4 Broadband's
Hit Again--More Rate Hikes
5/4 Battle
Of The Broadband Bills Heats Up
5/4 Microsoft
Ups Ante in Game Wars. MS buys
Ensemble Studios, maker of the popular 'Age of Empires' series.
5/4 AOL
Marshalls Troops Against MS XP Offensive. Corporate giants
AOL Time Warner and Microsoft are set to face off in what could prove
to be the most influential power struggle the Internet has ever seen...
Microsoft's upcoming Windows XP will be the first step taken toward integrating
Web services directly into the OS.
5/4 ALi
Expects to Double Market Share in 2001
5/3 Study
Reveals U.S. Online Retail Sales Grew 66 Percent in 2000. Expect
45% growth this year.
5/3 IBM
Reports Breakthrough in Computer Display Manufacturing. A new
process for manufacturing LCD displays can vastly improve screen quality
and viewing angles.
5/3 Faulty
Battery Sparks Dell Recall. Dell Computer will recall about 284,000
notebook batteries due to a flaw that has caused at least one notebook
to catch fire.
5/3 XML
Is Now the Standard Language for the Internet.
5/2 Computers:
Let the Price Wars Begin. PC makers are already engaged
in a price war, it's becoming apparent that the entire computer market
-- from servers to desktops to laptops -- is gearing up to win.
5/2 Dell
Slashes P4 Prices
5/2 Intel
Designers Feel the Heat. Today's leading-edge processors can
create heat that is equal to a hot plate... recent advances is IBM's
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, which can deliver a 30 percent
reduction in power consumption.
5/2 Cutting
the Cord. Some experts believe the time is right for incorporating
solar power on a larger scale into our infrastructure.
5/2 Slowdown?
Tech Spending to Double in 4 Years-Gartner
5/2 Online
Advertisers Look Farther Afield For Eyeballs. Interesting
numbers on click rates if your are in the business of running banners
on a web site.
5/2 Intel
Designers Feel the Heat. Today's leading-edge processors can
create heat that is equal to a hot plate... recent advances is IBM's
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, which can deliver a 30 percent
reduction in power consumption.
5/2 Microsoft
Admits Extremely Serious Security flaw in Windows 2000 Server Software. It
is "imperative" that anyone running IIS 5.0 apply the patch,
said Scott Culp, program manager of Microsoft's security response center.
5/2 AMD's
Sanders: What Price War? "We're not looking for a price
war," Sanders said. "We don't expect a price war." Who
are you kidding? I know a war when I see one.
5/2 Western
Digital Introduces Firewire 60 GB External Hard Drive
5/2 Cable
Industry Opposes Broadband Bill. So
they can rip us off some more, I presume...
5/1 AMD's
Athlon CPUs Offered for up to 50 Percent Less. E.G., 1
GHz Athlon: $138.00, was $224; 750 MHz Duron: $40.
5/1 Computing's
Small Picture Gets Clearer. More on nanotubes...
5/1 P4
Benchmarks Show 90% Boost? A Report shows new v12.0 drivers from
Nvidia has resulted in improved business app performance of 90 per cent. Another
site says 50%. I'll take this one with a
large grain of salt until I see more results...
5/1 A
Different DSL Could Be Better For Business
5/1 How
Can Sea Mammals Drink Saltwater?
5/1 Broadband's
Bright Future. High-speed Net access
at home hasn't taken off as expected, but it won't be that way for
long. Only 10 percent of American households currently have high-speed
Internet access.
5/1 Dell,
Compaq War Begins to Shake Loyalties
5/1 No
Windows XP until 2002? "Microsoft broke the news on
Thursday or Friday last week that if (gold code) went beyond early August,
they would hold back Windows XP until early '02," one PC maker said.
5/1 'Metamaterial'
Holds Promise for Antennas, Optics. More on negative-index-of-refraction
materials.
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