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Article | 26/11/2001 EU still falls behind US technology innovations
The European Union's lack of technological innovation and urgency in bringing cutting-edge technologies to market is causing the EU to lag behind the ...
Article | 23/11/2001 MacExpo UK: iPod launched
Apple Computer Inc. is launching iPod, its digital-music player, today at MacExpo 2001 at Islington's Business Design Centre.
Article | 23/11/2001 TI to roll out new DSP for 2G streaming video
Texas Instruments Inc. will support Japanese company Office Noa Inc.'s unique codec (coder/decoder) technology, which allows for smooth streaming vide...
Article | 23/11/2001 XML dominates database language war
With Oracle Corp.'s annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three ...
Article | 23/11/2001 Weather robots hit the sea
From March next year thousands of robots will be clinging to the bottom of our oceans to help the Met Office predict future weather conditions.
Article | 23/11/2001 Instant-messaging hacker tool may threaten servers
A new hacking tool using the instant-messaging platform Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is rapidly spreading across the Internet and has the potential to sh...
Article | 23/11/2001 Court postpones Hynix/Rambus lawsuit
A U.S. court has postponed a lawsuit by South Korean chip maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. against U.S. competitor Rambus Inc. in which Hynix had sought...
Article | 23/11/2001 Infineon, Toshiba DRAM merger deal due by year end
German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG expects to reach agreement on the merger of its DRAM (dynamic random access memory) business with ...
Article | 23/11/2001 Head Microsoft legal counsel to retire
As Microsoft Corp. nears a conclusion to its long-fought antitrust battle with the U.S. government, the company announced Wednesday that its top legal...
Article | 23/11/2001 Chinese authorities crack down on Net cafes
Chinese authorities have shut down over 17,000 Internet cafes around China and another 28,000 cafes will go through a reformation process over the nex...
Article | 23/11/2001 Microsoft runs out of Windows XP family licenses
Microsoft's offer to sell home users extra licenses to use their Windows XP software on additional PCs is a hit. It's such a big hit, you can't find t...
Article | 23/11/2001 Microsoft to launch Chinese Pocket PC 2002 on Dec. 6
Microsoft Corp. plans to pull the wraps off the Chinese version of Pocket PC 2002 in Taipei on Dec. 6, the company confirmed Thursday.
Article | 23/11/2001 Start-up rolls out storage resource management
Storage start-up Tek-Tools Inc. last week unveiled software that helps users manage storage subsystems and more effectively handle network backup and ...
Article | 22/11/2001 How to survive the recruitment drought
Are you out of work, rapidly spending your last pay check and wondering what the heck to do next? Well, now might be the time to consider that Tibetan...
Article | 22/11/2001 Siemens to cooperate on mobile phones
Siemens AG has entered into discussions with other mobile phone manufacturers in hopes of merging their handset-production operations, the company sai...
Article | 22/11/2001 Now may be the time to buy that LCD monitor
For many users, 2001 will be remembered as the year LCD (liquid crystal display) flat-panel monitors finally became affordable. A steep drop in their ...
Article | 22/11/2001 Symantec raises subscription rates
The cost of keeping viruses at bay just went up for all worldwide users of Symantec's popular Norton AntiVirus program. The company recently increased...
Article | 22/11/2001 Panasonic to launch durable PDA
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. unveiled a rugged PDA (personal digital assistant) which is water resistant and can withstand drops of up to 1...
Article | 22/11/2001 Hackers take out 156 Web sites in Vietnam
Hackers calling themselves revengetheplanet on Monday attacked 156 Web sites hosted by Vietnam's largest ISP (Internet service provider) and monopoly ...
Article | 22/11/2001 Via offers cheaper, faster Pentium 4 chip set
Via Technologies has released an upgrade to its Apollo P4X266 chip set for Intel's Pentium 4 processor that offers faster memory throughput -- and is ...

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